Archive for April, 2008


Nine techniques for CSS image replacement

I might be able to rattle off two or maybe three ways to do CSS image replacement, but not Nine. CSS-Tricks presents nine different approaches for swaping text with images via CSS. Some of these approaches I wouldn’t ever really consider a valid way to implement the solution. But there are some interesting approaches here [...]

Amazon EC2 - Persistant storage in the works

Amazon announced today, via an email to its EC2 subscribers, that they are working on a persistent storage feature for their EC2 service. It seems that it would be implemented as an attached volume to your EC2 instance. It will behave like an unformatted hard drive or block device. There will also be tools to [...]

Add cookie management to Firebug with Firecookie

Firecookie adds some much needed cookie viewing and manipulation tools to Firebug. It comes as its own Firefox extentension and adds a new “cookies” tab to your Firebug console. You can view cookies, manipulate them, remove them and even create new ones. It also plugs itself into Firebug search so you can easily filter down [...]

Flickr does Video

The rumors are true. You can now share videos on Flickr… that is if you are a Pro member. Also the video’s must be 90 seconds or less. Check this sample…

If you interested in killing a little title with Flickrs new video feature then check out the Fridgets group. Whats Fridgets [...]

Google releases Google App Engine - Its like EC2 but not really…

App Engine is a system for running applications on Googles infrastructure. It DOES NOT emulate a virtual system like EC2. Because of this, you have to follow Google rules for application development:

Current Python only
A YAML based app config file allows you to provide meta data about the app and do URL to “action” mapping
Most [...]