Use Elements as Background Images with -moz-element
We all know that each browser vendor takes the liberty of implementing their own CSS and JavaScript features, and I'm thankful for that. Mozilla and WebKit have come out with some interesting proprietary CSS properties, and since we all know that cementing standards takes ages more than it should, we should all be thankful. One interesting CSS property you probably haven't heard of is -moz-element, a Mozilla-implemented CSS property that allows developers to use HTML elements as an element background!
Read PostUseful Git Commands
I've used git quite a bit but I don't consider myself a git expert, per se. I often find myself looking up the same basic commands so I thought I'd share them there so I'd have a fast reference, and maybe this will help you out too!
ms: Tiny Millisecond Module by Guillermo Rauch
I wanted to pass along a simple but useful module that was posted as a Gist to GitHub by Guillermo Rauch. Â This simple module, available via NPM as ms, provides a simple function for turning a human-readable string into milliseconds.
Custom Getters and Setters with MooTools
Working with Dojo all day and scoping out MooTools at night gives me a unique perspective; I get to constantly evaluate the two frameworks and mentally move functionalities from framework to framework. One small but handy feature within the Dojo Toolkit's Dijit UI Framework is its set/get system. Dijit allows developers to add custom methods tied into simple get and set methods to allow manipulation properties into and on the way out of a class. I took a few moments to implement this system in MooTools.
Upload Photos to Flickr with PHP
I have a bit of an obsession with uploading photos to different services thanks to Instagram. Instagram's iPhone app allows me to take photos and quickly filter them; once photo tinkering is complete, I can upload the photo to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. This process made me wonder what it would take to upload photos to Flickr using PHP. This post details how you can authenticate and upload photos to Flickr using PHP with phpFlickr.
