Productivity: How to Use 43 Folders

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Anthony

Just discovered Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders. I shall devote some time to reading these.

Charles in charge of our days, and our HTTP data

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Anthony

So today I learned that if you have firebug installed on your Firefox, you can basically kiss web-surfing goodbye. But while you are taking a peek beneath the surface, you can run into some pretty cool apps, and this is no exception. According to http://www.charlesproxy.com :

Charles is an HTTP proxy / monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL traffic between their machine and the Internet, including requests, responses and HTTP headers.

This comes in mighty handy when you are passing variables to various analytics and metrics system, while not having the original source code in front of you.

In one day it has proven its weight in gold to me.

*Notable second runner up is Firefox plugin OmniBug.

[theora] Batch Encoding in ffmpeg2theora

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Anthony

Came across this nifty command to batch encode Ogg video files using ffmpeg2theora. Perfect for this Video portfolio page I’m making using the HTML5 video element.

[theora] Batch Encoding in ffmpeg2theora.

Thanks goes to Toby Nowland-Foreman for this one.

Mobile Friendly Stylesheets

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Anthony

So I was assigned the task of creating a mobile version of the website I work for.

Luckily I came across this great starting point provided by the guys from nettuts.com

Check out the tutorial which includes javascript to detect the users browsers and the orientation of the iPhone to serve up the correct stylesheet for either portrait or landscape view.

http://net.tutsplus.com/misc/learn-how-to-develop-for-the-iphone/