“As HTML games begin to gradually increase in popularity, vendors are starting to introduce some exciting new APIs to make gaming that little bit sweeter for both us developers and our end players. One of these is the GamepadAPI, which allows you to connect your good old console gamepad into your computer and use it [...]

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Earlier on today, I got a reply on Twitter from @panic asking what I’d like to see in their  already wonderful OSX IDE, Coda. Now, I’m not one to waste an opportunity so I thought I’d note down a few things I’d like to see in future versions of Coda.

So, specific I will be…
Better code completion
Anyone working [...]

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Ever since the official Twitter application for Mac came out I’ve been drooling over the lovely blue “Tweet” button. So I thought about producing a layer style in Photoshop to replicate the effect.
Below you can see original “Tweet” button and the preview of the downloadable file at the top of the post, on both a light and [...]

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Recently I’ve been trying out the HTML5 Boilerplate to get some of this new fangled HTML into my projects. One thing I particularly like about the boilerplate, is the feature that allows you to not just implement HTML5, but also provide a fallback for the not so fortunate browsers.

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I’ve only really had to do this myself a couple of times and each time I’m asked I’m always left thinking, now, where do I begin? For one thing getting the Facebook page’s RSS feed URL is hard enough, so I thought I’d write a little post on how to get that URL, parse it [...]

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This has been a little bit of a long time coming but I’ve been and still am so busy! Not that I’m complaining. Anyway down to the nitty gritty, here’s what’s in the update. I’ve added the following in both 16px and 32px sizes: Buzz, Dopplr, Dribbble, Forrst, Gowalla, Playfire, Soundcloud, Wakoopa.
The entire set now standing at 129 icons for you to use [...]

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A while back, a very good friend of mine (@EmmaWebsdale) was in the process of putting her first novel together named Alluro (which she’s now drawing towards finishing up!). I just couldn’t resist offering to conjure up a website together for her to help promote the book. I knew it would give me the chance [...]

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I’ve been getting into a lot of interface design lately and trying to apply the same sort of principles and techniques into my web design. So I’ve rounded up a bunch of interface designs that will give you some great ideas and inspiration when you’re giving interface design a go or any other design really!

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Over the past few weeks it’s been a bit quiet around here and the main reason for this is that I’ve been working on some super-secret projects with @callumchapman. Our latest project, DesignGiveaways, launched just today, in the past few minutes actually and it’s exciting stuff!
It went from concept, to design, to a rough HTML [...]

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If you’re in need of powering up your skill set then it’s your lucky day. I’m giving away two, three month subscriptions to the brilliant Tuts+ network. This will give you a great opportunity to soak up the amazing premium content that comes out of Envato’s education network for free! If you’re still not convinced, [...]

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