ExpressionEngine 2.3 and Improved User Guide Released
EllisLab released ExpressionEngine 2.3, along with an improved ExpressionEngine User Guide. I am most happy about improved pagination that can be customized. Yes!
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CSS Hyphenation
Trent Walton describes his experience with the CSS property for paragraph hyphenation. I am still using hyphenator.js on this site, but CSS hyphenation looks like a cleaner implementation.
Samuel L. Ipsum: Placeholder Text Generator
I admit to having used this NSFW placeholder text generator which parodies a character from Pulp Fiction. More interesting than Lorem Ipsum. (via @DaringFirefeed)
HTML5 Boilerplate is 2.0!
Lots of changes in the newly released HTML Boilerplate 2.0: normalize css instead of using a reset; faster; @import inlining; appcache generation; and the addition of respond.js as part of a shift to a responsive approach.
I have a new crush and its name is figcaption
An article by Jenn Lukas on the Happy Cog Cognition blog on HTML5 elements, specifically the figure and figcaption elements. (via @ryanirelan)
How I built a Tumblr-style blog with ExpressionEngine
Another variation of the theme of building a Tumblr-like blog using ExpressionEngine. In this blog post Lee Reamsnyder explains his methodology. (via @eeinsider)
Completely Remove index.php From ExpressionEngine URLs
Kevin Thompson details a “best practice” method to remove index.php completely from ExpressionEngine URLs. Will be updating my .htaccess file accordingly.
What is CamanJS?
An interesting image manipulation tool using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript. “It’s a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques.” (via @mezzoblue)
The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown
Microsoft initiates a recall, er countdown, of its own product: Internet Explorer 6. The sooner IE6 disappears, the sooner Microsoft can get started on recalling IE7 then IE8. Good riddance.
HTML5, for web developers
The press release for the beautifully designed resource for the HTML5 specification for web developers which removes information that only browser vendors need know. (by Ben Schwarz)
MySQL and ExpressionEngine
As a big fan of Ryan Irelan’s screencasts on ExpressionEngine, I was excited to see a more advanced tutorial on a subject I am very interested in: customizing ExpressionEngine.