[Trend] Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5-updated/19226

[Web Design] Centering in the Unknown

 http://css-tricks.com/14745-centering-in-the-unknown/

[Web Design] How CSS Animations Work on Sales Page for iPhone 4S

http://johnbhall.com/iphone-4s/

[Web Development] 3 Ways to test your website in old versions of IE

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thebeebs/archive/2011/11/03/3-ways-to-test-your-website-in-old-versions-of-ie.aspx

[Software Development] Building a Slimmer jQuery

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/11/08/building-a-slimmer-jquery/

[Trend] Apple ‘genius’ Steve Jobs dies from cancer

http://www.wncftv.com/news/entertainment/?feed=bim&id=131228449

[Web Design] Responsive web design is boring!

http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/responsive-web-design-boring

[Web Design] New developer tools experimental APIs for Chrome extensions

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/10/new-developer-tools-experimental-apis.html

[Web Design] Styling button elements to look like links

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201110/styling_button_elements_to_look_like_links/

[Web Development] Dart: a language for structured web programming 

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/dart-language-for-structured-web.html

[Web Development] Preventing CSRF With Ajax

http://haacked.com/archive/2011/10/10/preventing-csrf-with-ajax.aspx

[Web Development] Using a gmail account as a production bug tracking server

http://codebetter.com/patricksmacchia/2011/10/13/using-a-gmail-account-as-a-production-bug-tracking-server/

[Trend] Facebook Timeline & Creativity

http://blog.go2web20.net/2011/09/facebook-timeline-creativity.html

[Trend] Amazon Silk – Amazon’s Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk

[Web Administration] Work smarter, not harder, with site health

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/work-smarter-not-harder-with-site.html

[Software Development] Premature Optimization
http://www.keyvan.ms/premature-optimization

[Web Design] A Brief Look at Screen Resolutions

http://designfestival.com/a-brief-look-at-screen-resolutions/

[Web Development] When to base64 encode images (and when not to)

http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/when-to-base64-encode-images-and-when-not-to

[Web Development] Testing on mobile devices without the hardware

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201108/testing_on_mobile_devices_without_the_hardware/

[Software Development] Writing Maintainable Code

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/writing-maintainable-code/

[Software Development] There is no need to provide an custom error message when using Code Contracts 

http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2011/09/08/there-is-no-need-to-provide-an-custom-error-message-when-using-code-contracts.aspx

[Trend] Bootstrap, from Twitter

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

[Web Design] Pop From Top Notification

http://css-tricks.com/13815-pop-from-top-notification/

[Web Design] A Really Nice Way To Handle Popup Information

http://css-tricks.com/13638-a-really-nice-way-to-handle-popup-information/

[Web Development] Serious Crypto Bug Found in PHP 5.3.7

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/serious-crypto-bug-found-php-537-082211

 [User Experience] Do not use display:none to visually hide content intended for screen readers

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201108/…visually_hide_content_intended_for_screen_readers/

 [Web Design] The future of CSS layouts

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/future-css-layouts

[Web Design] What Makes For a Semantic Class Name?

http://css-tricks.com/13423-semantic-class-names/

[Web Design] CSS3 Transitions Without Using :hover

http://www.impressivewebs.com/css3-transitions-without-hover/

[Web Development] Create fluid width videos

http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-fluid-width-videos

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gco-official-url-shortcut-for-google.html

[Web Deisgn] Create a 3D block with CSS3

http://www.we-are-gurus.com/blog/1501-create-a-3d-block-with-css3

[Web Design] Seamless Responsive Photo Grid

http://css-tricks.com/13372-seamless-responsive-photo-grid/

[Web Design] CSS3 Radial Gradients

http://www.webdirections.org/blog/css3-radial-gradients/

Summary

This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies.

http://blog.oldworld.fr/index.php?post/2011/07/The-HTML5-progress-element-in-Firefox

[Web Design] 5 Reasons why Google+ is interesting UI.

http://bokardo.com/archives/5-reasons-why-google-is-interesting-ui/

[User Experience] Simple is Marketable

http://andrewchenblog.com/2011/07/08/simple-is-marketable/

[Software Development] Rethink your Data Model

http://openmymind.net/2011/7/5/Rethink-your-Data-Model

Summary

This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies.

In a Nutshell

• WordPress uncompressed folder size has increased by 0.06 MB to 9.42 Mb
• 1 file added, 38 files modified and 1 file renamed. Within the wp-admin folder 22 files modified.

The Full Length

This will cover only the logical changes. Texture and style changes will be overlooked. Minor code refactoring may also be ignored if the changes are for standardisation. A complete diff’ing coverage is available on WordPress trac.

/wp-admin

• includes/nav-menu.php
• Validate original title upon start_el() function.

/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven

• content-aside.php, content-image.php, content-link.php, content-status.php, content.php
• Validate display of comment module upon password requirement

/wp-includes

• class-json.php
• Add new Service_JSON class for handling data requests in  JSON format.
• compat.php
• Add encode and decode functions on usage of Service_JSON class.
• nav-menu.php
• Validate original title upon wp_setup_nav_menu_item() function.

Summary

This is a technical blog post covering implementation changes of latest WordPress, version 3.2.1 from its pervious version 3.2. I will line out code changes to help enthusiast PHP developer understanding the techniques and security concerns.

WordPress 3.2 will have new system requirements:

• PHP 5.2.4 from PHP 4.3
• MySQL 5.0.15 from 4.1.2
• Remove support for IE 6 with degradation

Detailed list of new features are summarised on WordPress 3.2 release page, but as highlight:

• New admin interface
• A new theme “Twenty Eleven”
• Full screen editor feature
• Out-of-date browser notification
• Cache RSS output

In a Nutshell

• WordPress uncompressed folder size has increased by1.13 MB to 9.36 Mb
• 134 files added, 374 files modified and 11 files deleted. Within the wp-admin folder 17 files were added, 210 files modified and 4 files deleted.
• 2 additional table record added and 2 records are deleted.

The Full Length

Unlike the usual changelogs, this article will not cover file by file changes and majority of modifications are new features and refactor to PHP 5.2. A complete diff’ing coverage is available on WordPress trac.

Summary

This is a technical blog post covering implementation changes of latest WordPress, version 3.2 from its pervious version 3.1.4. I will line out code changes to help enthausiast PHP developer understanding the techniques and security concerns.