HTML5 Boilerplate: A Rock-Solid Default for HTML5 Awesome
HTML5 Boilerplate was developed by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. This project took almost three years to be completed having first been announced on August 10th, 2010.
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Tech Tutorial: Cropping and Resizing Images in PHP
PHP is a great script language that has many applications when it comes to web development. It is a particularly useful tool when working with images. You can create and manipulate images files in variety of different formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF). If you are interested in manipulating animated GIFs, my coworker made a great tutorial about that. Today we’ll look at cropping and resizing images in PHP.
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Tech Tutorial: Server Configuration – cURL
During the deployment of one of our last projects on a client’s server, we had difficulties because we didn’t consider the difference between local and remote servers earlier enough. We had to go into a long debug process before realizing that the problem was not a programming issue but instead came from the server’s PHP configuration
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Tech Tutorial: Create a Subversion with Xcode 4
Hi everybody,
I just started to work with Xcode and trying to add a Subversion folder was a pain. So I decided to write about it and describe all the steps in order to help other people who have to set up a Subversion in Xcode.
Note that if you don’t have any Subversion software or package installed on your Mac you can download the free Subversion Mac OS X package.
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Tech Tutorial: Box2Djs, a JavaScript Physics Engine Using HTML5
Implementing physical phenomena in applications can make them highly interactive and create a very realistic experiences for any user, making their interaction more pleasant and intuitive. With the rise of HTML5 and its many possibilities, developing rich interactive and fancy features has become even easier with the many tools available such as the canvas element and the Box2D library. Box2Djs is a JavaScript port of the AS3 version of the famous 2D physics engine library : Box2D. This tool, originally developed for C/C++ applications, allows you to create a virtual two-dimensional world in which the laws of physics apply, especially the most famous - gravity. You can add bodies with specific shapes and make them bounce against each other. You can also set their physical proprieties, like their mass, their velocity, their density. This library provides a large amount of easy to use functions and objects and you can make excellent features by employing just a few of them.
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Tech Tutorial: Fixing CSS Float Issues
During the creation of a website, you will sometimes want to add the “float” CSS property to some of your containers to handle alignment within a container.
This CSS property specifies whether or not a box within an element should float.
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