So I just ran into Shaun Inman’s descriptive blog post on his Mimeo and the Kleptopus King, a Mario Bros.-inspired side-scroller that looks a lot like pixel-perfect awesomeness to me. (0)
Uploadify’s a jQuery plugin that allows anyone to very easily add multiple file uploads to their website. I happened to bump into some tips on how to integrate Uploadify with CakePHP as well. (0)
Make sure you try punypng, a free PNG compression service that drastically reduces images file sizes. I uploaded both a true color and an indexed color version of the same image, and while the indexed version’s file size was reduced with 13%, from 2,720 to 2,388 bytes that is, the size of the true color file was reduced with 41%, ending up a mere 2,385 bytes (coming from 4,017) which happens to be even smaller than the version that was originally smaller to start with! (0)
Newism recently launched part 3 in a series on the new Campaign Monitor launch. While parts 1 and 2 were mostly EE-focused, Jesse, in his contribution, digs a bit deeper into the design process of the new Campaign Monitor site. (0)
Kohana, the Swift PHP Framework
I’ve been diggin’ somewhat into Kohana lately, and must say it looks like quite good an alternative to Cake.
Kohana’s supposed to literally mean swift, though I’m not too sure how it compares to recent versions of other PHP frameworks. It sure feels fast enough, and then there’s always caching to fall back on.
Obvious pro: Kohana’s totally up-to-date with PHP 5, which is exactly where Cake’s been lacking somewhat, lately.
So anyways, I might just come up with a tutorial of some kind later on—Kohana’s learn pages seem to be pretty out-of-date.