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• 6.14.07 Easy WP2.2 Slugs with TextMate posted in Geekery

  Here’s a quick tip for making use of the Wordpress 2.2 xmlrpc slug capabilities with TextMate…

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• 5.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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• 5.28.07 Ajax Usability: Tab History posted in Web Design

  Today’s tip gleaned from my experience in building the latest Circle Six Design website is more of a hint, or suggestion, than a how-to. It’s mostly about javascript, and my javascript is pretty crazy for this, mostly because I’m not very experienced with javascript and it’s kind of hacked. However, what I got working is worth sharing…

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• 3.12.07 A VIRB Quickie posted in Web Design

  Not sure why I didn’t try it before, but here’s a quick tip. If you modify your HTML section on VIRB and hit preview, then save the source of the preview to a file, you can separate out the CSS and HTML for live editing in CSSEdit.

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• 3.11.07 VIRB Customization Tips posted in Web Design

  I thought I’d jot down a few notes on my experiences with customizing VIRB pages for those with enough skill to pull it off on their own. This is NOT a CSS primer, I’m just some workflow tips I’ve picked up on the way. It’s all fairly obvious, but I thought it might help some aspiring designers who might be doing things the hard way. I just finished redesigning my own page after a sleepless night…

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• 3.2.07 TextMate Bundles Explained posted in Geekery

  Have you ever run into problems making changes to a TextMate bundle, or updating a bundle, where changes weren’t showing up or being updated? These and a myriad of other “problems” can be explained by having multiple copies of bundles on your drive. Even after a year of using TextMate, I still get confused about how it works, and in what order. On the TextMate Mailing List, Haris Skiadas posted an excellent explanation of the often-confusing bundle situation in TextMate.

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• 2.16.07 Reggy posted in Geekery

  Just a quick note about a piece of software I’ve been looking for and finally found thanks to a tip from Ale Muñoz on the TextMate mailing list. Reggy is a sweet little OS X cocoa/objective-c app that gives you a visual representation of what your regular expression will select out of a test string. I played around with it and quickly answered a few questions that were lingering for me. Sweet.

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• 1.9.07 Better CSS Debugging with OSX posted in Web Design

  CSS has never been the easiest part of web design. Browser inconsistencies, holes in the specs and some things that we just haven’t figured out how to do can leave a designer a little frustrated (and thinking about slicing up an image in Fireworks and building on of those table things). But […]

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• 10.3.06 Firefox Tips and Tricks from Circle Six posted in Geekery

  How much do you love Firefox? Do you know all the tricks in the book? Circle Six has put together a few of our favorites to help you get the most out of browsing with Firefox. browsers» extensions» firefox» Geekery» Google» hacks» javascript» plugins» search» tips» tricks»

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