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Archive for April, 2009
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LoveIcon Launch
Although I was sad to see ProgTuts go, I’m very excited about my new site LoveIcon.
LoveIcon is an icon inspiration gallery/resource site for anyone who has an interest in beautiful icons. Recently I was aware that there was loads of CSS galleries but I had only ever seen a few Icon galleries. So I decided to make LoveIcon. I’m hoping the site will fill up with the worlds most amazing icon designs from the best designers around the world.
Why not head on over and check it out, or help me out by submitting an icon suggestion. So remember, if you see any amazing icons head over to LoveIcon and tell the world about them.
Digg’s Multipart XMLHttpRequests
The developers at Digg have come up with an interesting way to speed up load times of high performance websites. They have taken the idea that reducing the number of HTTP requests per page speeds up website performance, and come up with a technique called MXHR (Multipart XMLHttpRequests). MXHR works by bundling files, sending them through a single request, then separating them for use once they head down the pipe.
They have written a an addition to their Digg User Interface library called DUI.Stream to implement it. Specifically, DUI.Stream opens and reads multipart HTTP responses piece-by-piece through an XHR, passing each chunk to a JavaScript handler as it loads. This will then allow developers to drastically improve the speed of uncached page loads by bundling most of their resources into a single HTTP request, with a single time-to-first-byte and no request throttling by the user agent.
There are two demo’s you can view at the moment (remembering this is still in alpha development). However the demo that handles images is particularly impressive. (IE doesn’t seem to play nice). Demo1, Demo2.
If you are interested you can find out more about MXHR and the DUI.Stream on Digg’s blog post.
PHP Month Number to Month Name the Easy Way
Here’s a quickie for you. Ever wanted to convert a month number to a month name in PHP but hated having to do a huge switch statement? Well here is your answer.
<?php $monthNum = 5; $monthName = date("F", mktime(0, 0, 0, $monthNum, 10)); echo $monthName; //output: May ?>
Enjoy.
ProgTuts For Sale
Today I have put one of my other blogs, progtuts.info, up for sale. It saddens and excites me at the same time. My reason for selling in the first place is basically that I just don’t have the time to keep writing amazing quality tutorials for the site (whilst working and trying to graduate at the same time). I’m sad to see the site go but I’m also very excited that someone else now has the opportunity to really make the site what it deserves to be, and I think it has loads of potential. The fact the the visitor and subscriber counts haven’t really dropped much since the last post was written (in November 2008) stands testament to the potential of the site.
So I’m selling the site on Sitepoint.com. If you would consider aquiring the site then please go and check out the auction, and if you know of anyone else that might be interested then please spread the word. It would be much appreciated.
