Yearly Archives: 2012

BlogBuzz March 10, 2012

Mar 10, 2012 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No Comments

Scripting News Hits 15 Year Mark, and Other Really Old Websites

Mar 8

Back in the spring of 1997, Dave Winer launched a website known as Scripting News. It was one of the first sites that would come to be known as weblogs, or simply “blogs.” Mr. Winer is famous for his involvement with the development of…

What is a Kibibyte?

Mar 5

If there are eight bits in a byte, how many bytes are there in a kilobyte? If you’re familiar with computers, you might say 1,024, while someone who is less so may say 1,000. Who is right? Surprisingly, the person who answered 1,000 would…

Tinycon: Favicon Alert Bubbles

Feb 27

Tinycon is a neat script that manipulates the favicon of a page. Using a simple JavaScript call, you can add a little alert bubble over the icon, and change the number within. If the browser doesn’t support Canvas, it falls back to appending a…

BlogBuzz February 25, 2012

Feb 25

Adventures in Buying Expiring Domains

Feb 22

I recently tried my hand at buying a previously-owned domain name. There was a domain that I had wanted for years, but it had already been taken. On a whim, I ran a whois search on it a couple weeks ago for some reason…

BlogBuzz February 18, 2012

Feb 18

CSS1K: What Can You Do With 1KB of CSS?

Feb 16

Back in 2003, a website called CSS Zen Garden was launched by Vancouver web designer Dave Shea to showcase what could be done with pure CSS. Back then, the internet was full of table-based layouts and large, text-filled images. The Garden was a pretty…

How Much Does Amazon CloudFront Cost for a Small Blog?

Feb 9

You may have heard about how people speed up their websites by offloading images, CSS and JavaScript from their server to a Content Delivery Network like Amazon CloudFront. The CDN mirrors the files in separate datacenters and serves them up from the one closest…

Crowd Favorite’s WordPress Post Formats Admin UI

Feb 6

Back in WordPress 3.1, a new feature called Post Formats was added to enable theme developers to more easily denote different types of posts in order to make “tumblog” themes. But the feature is lacking as it stands today. The UI is simply not…