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Zend_Feed and changing the date

Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone a bit of time in the future…
When using Zend_Feed to create your RSS, don’t use:
pubDate => date(‘r’, $item->timestamp)

This doesn’t work as you’d expect. You’ll only ever get the current time. …

HTML5 Video and Canvas – a little game

Works in Safari, Chrome and Firefox
How does it work?
Mostly witchcraft but also Javascript and some of the new APIs offered to us by HTML5.
We start by embedding a video using the wonderful <video> tag. Then we hide the video. …

HTML5 drag and drop, Spotify and Yahoo! Music.

Drag and drop has been around on the desktop for ages. The web eventually caught on but it was a bit rubbish. Wouldn’t be it be nice if your web applications interact with your ‘real’ applications? Thankfully, HTML5 is great.

Introducing jquery.gratuitous

Lightbox is dead! Long live Lightbox!
Gratuitous is a jQuery plugin whose sole purpose in life is to show you a photo or video in a new and exciting way.