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i’m a big fan of css3 replacing common png tricks. here’s an interesting way to make that ‘popping off the page’ drop shadow effect =>

article:before, article:after {
	-webkit-box-shadow: 0 15px 10px rgba(0,0,0, .7);   
	-moz-box-shadow: 0 15px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);	    
	box-shadow: 0 15px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);	
	position: absolute; 
	bottom: 15px; 
	z-index: -1; 
	width: 50%; 
	height: 20%; 
	content: "";       
	background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); 
}
		   
article:after {                      
	-webkit-transform: rotate(3deg);    
	-moz-transform: rotate(3deg);   
	-o-transform: rotate(3deg);
	right: 10px; 
	left: auto;
}
		
article:before {                 
	-webkit-transform: rotate(-3deg);   
	-moz-transform: rotate(-3deg);  
	-o-transform: rotate(-3deg);
        right: auto;
	left: 10px; 
}

want your emacs’ rinari rails minor mode to use your rvm’s default ruby version? (answer: probably). it’s as easy as slapping this lisp in your emacs set-up.

a framework for adding the ability to share of various types of content to any number of web services like email, twitter, delicious, facebook, and google reader to your iOS app.

its totally customizable, fully documented, and adding it to your project starts with just 3 lines of code.

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a flash player written in javascript. hopefully this will silence all the whiners that want flash on their iphones.

pictaculous is a web app that extracts the hexadecimal values of the color scheme from an uploaded image. you can download the adobe swatch file or compare it to similar kuler and colourlovers schemes. you can even use it on your mobile phone by taking a picture and emailing it to colors@mailchimp.com.

cloud zoom is a snazzy image zoom jquery plugin. a bunch of options are available and the animations are very smooth. works all the way down to ie6 and minified its only 6kb.

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appendix a of mark pilgrim’s dive into html5. no hanky-panky here, just quick javascript bits to test if the browser you’re working in can handle a certain html5 element or attribute.

i’m pleased to announce the launch of hifiving.com, a web application for making lists of things. those things can be videos, audio, links, images, or just plain words. it has been my pet project for quite some time, so i’m glad to get it up and running. please try it out and help spread the word!

in terms of development, the back-end is made with ruby on rails and a handful of other rubygems. i also did the design and front-end development. sprockets and less were heroes here. this is also my first experience using heroku for hosting, which has been great so far.

wow, 95 in total? good reference for safari, iphone safari, and chrome tricks.

RIP facebook connect and good riddance - trying to integrate facebook access to a web application used to be embarrassingly inelegant when compared to something like twitter and the oauth protocol. luckily facebook’s new graph api is fantastically simpler and the oauth2 rubygem makes account access and permission granting a cinch. need proof? check out the sinatra and rails examples.