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Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

For CakePHP developers I would like to welcome Shrink, a plugin I created for a simple way to compile, combine, and compress assets (specifically less). There are several other plugins to do this, but I didn’t find one that suited my fancy.. Either they were two complex for my need or too simple. Shrink aims [...]

With the increased attention and amount of help questions I receive for jQuery-Timepicker-Addon, I have decided to put together an eBook, Handling Time. I believe this will help many who are new to timepicker, and even those with experience when dealing with times in general will find it very beneficial. After a few years of [...]

Interested in uploading multiple images at once, without flash, and have them queue up to crop? UberUploadCropper can handle this for you. For those not familiar UberUploadCropper, it is a jQuery plugin that combines Impromptu, FineUploader, and Jcrop to work seamlessly together as one upload and crop utility. Thanks to some handy javascript contributions this [...]

Email Development Roundup

While email still seems to operate in the stone age in terms of markup and css support, it is still progressing at an exciting rate. We can probably credit the push to the strength of the mobile market. Email is no longer the daily routine where you sit down infront the computer, open up a [...]

I hate scheduling cron tasks. It seems like a hidden beast. Its doing things while you sleep, while you eat, and even when you’re working. It’s like multitasking in another dimension! Well I’ve noticed in my deploy process I sometimes forget about new cron tasks that have been in my dev branch for a while. [...]