Aptana PHP – Version 1.0 is out

December 16th, 2008 - Backend, PHP Tools - 2 Comments

You must be familiar with Aptana Studio by now. If not then have a look at the product’s page. In a nutshell, it’s another Javascript, CSS, DOM IDE. Well, it’s more than that but you can learn more about it on their website. If you are a PHP developer there’s PHP support through Aptana PHP which is is now on version 1.0. Many exciting features can be found like embedded PHP server (or configure it to work with e.g. XAMPP), debugging, an outline view of your code and many many more. Aptana comes as a standalone ide or an eclipse plugin. Learn more about Aptana PHP at its official page.

EcoFont | Less is more

December 15th, 2008 - Design, Typography - 3 Comments

This one is actually useful for people who print a lot and would like to save some ink. Ecofont is a new optimised font that saves you (according to the developers) 20% ink. The Ecofont is based on the Vera Sans, an Open Source letter, and is available for both PC and MAC.Have a look at EcoFont.

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery Tutorial

December 11th, 2008 - Frontend, jQuery - 3 Comments

ClarkLab.net released an excellent tutorial on how to create a vertical animated drop down menu using jQuery. One of the most beautiful drop down menus i’ve seen so far.

The Gift of Knowledge GIVEaway: Donate your mind

December 11th, 2008 - Design, News - No Comments

Tutorial9.net is holding a really nice contest with a twist. If you can write a a Photoshop tutorial, a roundup featuring your favorite books, create a Photoshop brush set or “ANYTHING that teaches, offers new resources for our readers to work with, or shares experiences that will help others is more than likely an acceptable entry”.

For every entry accepted, $100 is donated to Save the Children and and you’re qualified to win some incredible prizes. Have a look and do consider participating.

DD_belatedPNG: better PNG background-image support for IE6

December 8th, 2008 - Frontend, Javascript - 1 Comments

DD_belatedPNG is another PNG fix for IE6. There are so many out there but most them FAIL one or the other way. After playing for a while with it, it seems that it covers some cases where most of the other scripts just fail like background-position and background-repeat cases.  DD_belated comes in 2 versions, uncompressed (6.5kb) and compressed (3.65kb) and it can be downloaded for free from its official website.