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October 11, 2010
 

Snippet #1: Stylebot & Google Reader & More

Update I've also added one for the ReadItLater webapp. Both now feature css3 finishes and webkit scrollbars, which I think should be everywhere. Customizable embedded browser chrome (buttons, fields, scrollbars) is such a necessity these days.

Update All my styles are here: http://stylebot.me/users/hlfcoding

Update I've updated the Reader snippet to be even more ridiculously minimal. I've also added the snippets for some other sites. Note the gist contains versioning and are bookmarkable if you're on github.

http://stylebot.me/ is an awesome Chrome extension, doing what userChrome.css does in Firefox, though perhaps with more style. Here's something to help Google Reader power users *. 

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* Use www.google.com/reader/view/ instead of the autodetected www.google.com


 

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March 21, 2010
 

Coding Update #2: Front-end Builds Framework

A quick update for those who are interested and don't follow me on Github, I wrote this tool for people like me who write a lot of HTML/CSS at their jobs, and especially have to present those templates as deliverables. A lot of the times you're only responsible for the frontend development, so it's hard to get the benefits of server-side web development. In other words, you have to repeat yourself a bunch of times as you're coding, and it starts to get messy. I just hacked together something using XML and PHP to keep the content separate. There's not much separate documentation, just inline comments, but the tool is definitely usable (especially by those who understand basic PHP). A demo, also in progress, can be seen here.  

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January 30, 2010
 

Coding Update #1: Git, MVC, & .NET

I've finally started using my GitHub account. I've had it since almost a year ago, but only recently decided to dive into the Git commands in bash. The learning curve is definitely manageable, if you're not afraid to google. This sudden shift from SVN is mostly invoked by jQuery's move. A good amount of the source code I 'clone' for my own use (I'm not a fan of browsing for download links) is on GitHub, too. As awesome as TortoiseSVN is, GitHub just seems to have so much potential, at least over Google Code. 

I've also started venturing into MVC web frameworks again, mostly in PHP, since it's mostly what I know server-side. I'm going to redo the back-end for my site, so I can extend it with more flexibility and creativity. This will definitely be a long-term project, with a lot of long pauses and short spurts of activity. But it just plain sucks that I can't easily build new portions of my site without affecting or changing the old, because Indexhibit or WordPress are simply not designed to be highly extensible, from a development standpoint. They're also not really getting improved upon very quickly, at least in the rate their language platform (PHP) is -- which actually isn't that quickly. And as a side note, looking at the BuddyPress source--which sits on top of WordPressMU, induces powerful headaches. So I've just abandoned what most of the internet runs on; what do I want? 

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