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PHPBench.com was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed.
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The report identifies emerging trends in “mobile activism” through 11 case studies, and highlights the results of a global survey of NGO usage of mobile technology.
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SMS marketing service
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Integrate Campaign Monitor with drupal
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Nice date picker with quick pick ranges
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Surprisingly high number of mobile phones in the US that don’t support cookies
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Exceptional list of tips for iPhone users
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Schedule text messages as reminders
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Leverage Google’s content delivery network for common javascript libraries.
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“Safire is an open source framework written in HTML/CSS/JS. It make’s building/porting applications to the iPhone ridiculously easy.”
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Keepmovingcomputingtaskstowhereenergyisavailable
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58% of U.S. adults have used cell phones or PDAs for text-messaging, taking a picture, looking for directions or surfing the Web
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“Why does latency have such a huge impact on page loading speed? After all, to load a page completely a web browser just needs to fetch the page source and all the associated resources. The browser makes multiple connections to servers and tries to load a
Month: June 2008
Speed Up Your AJAX With Google AJAX Libraries
Dion Almaer of Google and Ajaxian.com announced late last week the AJAX Libraries API. If you use AJAX, you’ll want to pay attention to this announcement. What does it mean?
Popular AJAX libraries including:
- jQuery
- prototype
- script.aculo.us
- MooTools
- dojo
are now being hosted on Google’s servers for use on your site or applications. Why would you link to a file hosted on Google’s server? Because it is optimized for speed by providing the libraries in the following way:
- Gzipped
- Minified
- Far future expires headers to increase caching
- Delivered using Google’s extensive content delivery network
They are providing multiple versions of each library and even include a javascript loader for the libraries. For more on the benefits of this service, check out Steve Souder’s coverage and Dion’s extensive information on Ajaxian.
If you are using any of these AJAX libraries, you would be foolish not to seriously consider taking advantage of this service.
New, Faster Version of jQuery Released
“A new release of jQuery is out — 1.2.6, skipping directly from 1.2.3. Most noteworthy are the performance improvements.” via Ajaxian. Further details in the release notes.
links for 2008-06-03
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A comprehensive set of stencils. Great stuff.
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Using css transformations to flip web page
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Good breakdown of the differences
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For those ready to sell as soon as they can get the upcoming 3G version
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WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.
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A continuously updated list of all CSS properties:
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SkyBlueCanvas is designed specifically for those instances when more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower.
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Hook campaignmonitor up to google analytics
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search and buy amazon products via sms
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iPhone demographics
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Story behind one of my favorite Thomas Hawk’s photos
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GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website
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WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients.
Flood Warnings via SMS
“Cell phones will now tell Italians when the tide is high in Venice. The city government just launched a free text message alert system for the floods which frequently put La Serenissima under several feet of water.” Originally from Zoomata and highlighted by Textually.
I wonder how long it will take before the U.S. starts to realize that SMS-based alerts would be much more effective than radio and television alerts. There’s a whole generation that the public broadcasting alert system would miss who are listening to their iPods and watching IPTV instead of the networks.