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Styled Headers With Underlines - CSS Tip

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In a post yesterday, I had some new CSS working. My headings now have a nice line drawn under them. Here’s a sample:
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This gives posts a more professional look that I really like. I got this idea from Paul’s style, but I wrote this CSS myself. Here’s the CSS you need to [...]

Super Simple Subversion for Mac Developers

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As some of my developer friends might know, I have been fairly enthusiastic in joining the version control revolution of the 1980’s. My reasons for this were mianly due to the fact that I was the only one working on my development projects. With my new project with 2 other people, I felt it necesarry [...]

launchd Script to Backup iTunes Library Files

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I recently experienced the horrible fate of having my entire iTunes Library file wiped into corruption. About half the file was ok, but the second half was a mishmash of the Russian alphabet. This really hurt. All my ratings, all my play counts, all my date addeds, all my playlists were gone, and I couldn’t [...]

Live Search As You Type and Live Sorting Tables With JS

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I’ve been showing this code to some people, and a lot of people are liking it. I’ve decided to release this to the public and write a tutorial to explain how this works. If you haven’t noticed, I always write detailed tutorials behind the code and never just offer the code as some Javascript library [...]

GMail-Like Attachment Forms using DOM Scripting

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The web development discussion for today will be about dynamically adding HTML elements using DOM and Javascript. We will be emulating a feature you’ve probably seen all over the web, most notably on GMail when it let’s you add attachments to emails. GMail presents the user with an attachment button. The user can then click [...]

Simple Dismissal Notifications in Javascript

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I’ve got a real simple tutorial today, but this will hopefully be really useful to anybody searching for this type of effect. What we’re going to make today is a notification system that will show certain messages to the user. We will then let the user dismiss this notification by clicking the close button. The [...]

Spotlight-Like Search As You Type With CSS, AJAX & JS

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OS X has a lot of great effects. These are great building blocks for creating effects for the web. You might have seen my previous tutorial on creating a Dashboard-Like effect using JS and CSS. This tutorial will show you how to create a Spotlight-Like effect for your search boxes. Take a look at the [...]

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