Links

alistapart.com

Screen-reader test results for the Fahrner Image Replacement technique, concluding that hiding text with display none or visibility hidden makes it inaccessible.

linuxjournal.com

Walkthrough of building a self-extracting installer by appending a tar.gz payload to a shell script that strips itself, decompresses the archive and runs the install step.

cygwin.com

cat <<EOF HOME is $HOME the date is `date` the date is $(date) EOF cat <<"EOF" HOME is $HOME the date is `date` the date is $(date) EOF cat <<\EOF HOME is $HOME the date is `date` the date is $(date) EOF

raphaeljs.com

Home of Raphaël, a small JavaScript library that draws vector graphics in the browser through SVG and VML, with a walkthrough comparing it to hand-written SVG.

wiki.php.net

PHP RFC proposing compile-time lambda functions and closures for the language, accepted and shipped in PHP 5.3.

linuxgazette.net

Linux Gazette introduction to Vim for readers who already know the basics, collecting mnemonics and the slightly more advanced commands that speed up everyday editing.

code.google.com

Google's developer overview of Protocol Buffers, a language- and platform-neutral format for serializing structured data, with generated code for several languages.

multicians.org

Short essay arguing that each bug found should prompt three questions: is the mistake elsewhere too, what bug hides behind it, and how to prevent bugs of that kind.

alistapart.com

A List Apart article on how JavaScript methods lose their intended "this" when passed around, and how apply, call, wrapper functions and closures restore the binding.

chesstris.com

Playable build of Go Tetris!, a Tetris variant where falling stones clear by being surrounded as in Go, with its controls and capture-based scoring explained.

alistapart.com

A List Apart article introducing faux absolute positioning, a CSS technique mixing floats and relative positioning to build flexible multi-column grid layouts.

code.google.com

Archived Google Code project for Flot, an MIT-licensed jQuery plotting library, whose code, issues and wiki have since moved to GitHub and flotcharts.org.

phpdeveloper.org

PHPDeveloper news item summarising and linking the Symfony blog's walkthrough of sending mail from symfony 1.1 with Swift Mailer.

vimeo.com

A stop-motion animation made by painting and repainting murals across walls in public space.

denisfeldmann.fr

Recueil commenté de positions et de problèmes remarquables du jeu de go, classés par thème, avec analyses et fichiers de solutions.

noupe.com

Roundup linking to Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials grouped by effect — neon glows, smoke, text treatments, watercolour and vintage styling.

vim.org

Vim script repository entry for PDV, a plugin that generates phpDocumentor doc blocks for PHP 4 and 5 code.

geekblog.over-blog.com

Tutoriel sur la personnalisation des formulaires sfFormPropel générés par symfony 1.1 : widgets, validateurs, et extraction du tout dans une classe de formulaire dédiée.

davidwalsh.name

Post showing how to merge separate screen and print stylesheets into a single file using @media blocks, saving an HTTP request per page.

smashingmagazine.com

Free set of 18 PNG payment-method icons designed by Phil Matthews for showing accepted cards on online shops.