The Watchmaker Project

@fen_boy Yes, just found that - you can specify a from and to date. Not sure whether comments proc the "last updated" property though.

Previously

Jan 24

My World of Warcraft

Jan 14

How to make a quickstart folder for your projects

Jan 05

New Year’s Resolutions // Project 52

Oct 26

Jonathan Longnecker - From Design To Dynamic: Rapid Development with ExpressionEngine

Oct 26

Jamie Pittock - The Art Of Proactive Parenting

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   Ah ha. Great solution! Thanks. When in the middle of a project I would…

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   I use this to open my daily morning round up. A few Cycling, Motocross and music…

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   Great idea Matthew. Certainly a lot more reliable than using browser history to…

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2. Sister Blue
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3. Blood Runs Red
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4. Fire
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5. Big House Burning
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6. Bring It On
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7. Ride & Drive
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8. Sugar Ain't So Sweet
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9. Trusted
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10. Gracie
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1. 15 January

   Automatic data URI embedding in CSS files #

   Details and link to a tool that automatically converts your CSS background images into data URIs.

2. How to reduce the number of HTTP requests #

   This is brilliant, and deserves a lot more attention. A command line script that can convert all your CSS background-images into data URIs - the result is a much larger CSS file, but only one HTTP request!

3. 26 November

   Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices #

   Some useful tips for anyone working with MySQL databases queries.

4. Installing APC on Media Temple Grid Server #

   Never heard of this, but if the performance gains are significant and no extra work is involved it sounds like an easy win.

5. 25 November

   Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps #

   A comparison of a few different techniques for dealing with lots of markers on your Google Map.

6. 12 October

   Restoring Spring to iPhone Springboard #

   An interesting list of proposed improvements to the iPhone Springboard interface. Can’t disagree with any of them, apart from to say that the dots for vertical scrolling don’t look right to me. I hope Apple implement at least some of these ideas.

7. 23 September

   MySQL Reference Manual: The General Query Log #

   A useful page of information on how to enable and manage query logging with MySQL. If you ever have issues with MySQL chewing up all your CPU cycles, dig into the query logs.

8. 16 September

   Five tips for using @font-face #

   I hadn’t until now realised it was quite that simple to use @font-face.

9. 8 September

   PNG transparency in IE 6 with no extra HTTP request #

   A simple, no-JS required solution to the IE6 alpha-transparency problem with PNG graphics.

10. 29 August

    Methods To Speed Up Magento - A Guide To Making Magento Faster #

    A comprehensive forum thread from the Magento site from a user determined to eke out the most speed from his Magento installation.

11. 20 August

    Avatar trailer #

    Looks… interesting.

12. 18 August

    punypng: making the web more puny, one png at a time #

    Another PNG compression site/script. Hopefully this one will work better than smush.it, which I could never get to fix my washed-out tiling PNG backgrounds.

13. 14 August

    Really Useful Classes And Libraries For PHP Developers #

    Some useful classes to bookmark here, especially relating to image-resizing and document (PDF, Excel) creation with PHP.

14. WTF. | Happy Magic Fun Time #

    What he said.

15. 12 August

    PHP Cheat Sheet Dashboard Widget #

    I can’t count the number of times I’ve typed “php date” into Google. Even with Aptana’s code-completion, I’m always having to look up the syntax and options of common PHP functions; this Mac dashboard widget is going to get daily use.

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