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‘The Analyst’ – Mastering Web Behavior Analytics

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Social Media will Enhance Honesty Quotient

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Best Practices for Social Content Management – Part 2

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There was a goal: Create CSS buttons that are sexy looking, really flexible, but with the most minimalistic markup as possible.

And voila.. here they are, the BonBon Buttons. Named after the French word for "Candy". So, let's take a tour trough the candy store.

No, wait! Before you click that download button and try to use them on your site, please also read the flaws.

Markup

I get a real kick out of trying to keep the markup minimal, so I'm really happy with the outcome. A basic button looks like this: <a href="" class="button">Label</a> Label

You can change the look by adding more classes: <a href="" class="button orange glossy">Label</a> Label

If you would like to add an icon, you can use the HTML5 custom data attribute like this: data-icon="S". This allows you to use any of the Unicode symbols or the newly released Picos Font as icons. With the following CSS .button:before { content: attr(data-icon); } it will add the icon in front of the label. I think it's a great solution to keep your markup semantic and to hide the additional icon letter from screen readers. Plus it allows you to quickly change icons without having to touch your CSS. <a href="" class="button orange glossy" data-icon="S">Label</a> Label

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I tried to avoid any images but couldn't resist adding a PNG for the noise. The rest is a combination of text-shadows, box-shadows, gradients and borders. This makes it easy to resize the buttons and keep them sharp. It also makes it easy to change the shape. Yes, try it out.. a morphing button:
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A border-radius doesn't always need to be rounded. You can bend it in a more oval shape using a second set of points separated with a "/". The above buttons use a transition to animate the border-radius for the default, :hover and :active state: border-radius: 5em / 2em;
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For the colors HSL values are used. It makes it much easer to apply different shades of a color if you can use %. For example the text color is a darker version of the background, so I just lower the lightness by 20%: color: hsl(39, 100%, 30%);
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I tried to simulate different materials. A "mate", "glossy" and a "glass" version. The difference of the later two is that the glass version adds a dark blurry text-shadow which makes it look like you can see trough the button to its bottom. Works great in combination with the "back" shape.
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The glossy shape is created using an :after element with a gradient background on top. It get's cutout with a border-radius that is slightly smaller in width and half in height from the main button. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to animate the :after element. So it's disabled on the morphing shape. Also, if the button gets too long, it doesn't look as good anymore. The gloss and highlight gradient doesn't grow.
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There are two more datails that I would like to point out: The border uses a brighter and a darker box-shadow to imitate depth and the drop shadow changes when pressing the button.

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  • Color: orange, pink, blue, green, transparent
  • Font: serif
  • Material: glossy, glass
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  • Shape: round, oval, brackets, skew, back, knife, shield, drop, morph
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There is one thing I'm kinda sad about. At the beginning when I started with the buttons, my plan was to use something like data-color="#ff0000" in the markup and it would create a red button. But I quickly realized that if you just add highlights and shadows on top of a color, it starts to look dull and less vivid. So all the colors need to be predefined in the CSS. I never tried it out, but maybe LESS/SASS would be a good solution because you can brighten/darken colors with code. But even then it's kinda hard, because not all colors need the same amount. Well, we shall see..

Flaws

And it gets worse.. If you're planing to use the BonBon buttons for production.. Well, I don't recommend it.. yet! Yes, I'm sorry, life is hard.

This is just a demo and not meant to be used on your next project that targets the average internet user. I just wanted to show a couple techniques how to use some of the new CSS3/HTML5 features. So only the current version of Safari, Chrome and Firefox are supported.

Another point. Each design element should fit with the overall design of a site. So I think it's not a good idea to just use "out of the box" buttons. It's like using one of those stock office girls on your contact page.. ;-)

But feel free to download the code, play around and maybe even use the one thing or the other, sooner or later. Thanks for reading.

Update

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Some have expressed their concerns that it doesn't degrade gracefully. Yes, I know. I didn't really spend any time on it. I already mentioned under Flaws that this demo is not production ready, but thanks for the reminder.

Yeah, making things cross-browser is my weak point. I guess one reason is that those CSS3 experiments are just a hobby I do in my free time. I just enjoy to play around. Once everything is working nicely in -webkit and I open it in other browsers, I quickly close them again. ;-) And my motivation on trying to find hacks and fix things goes down to zero pretty fast. I admire all those that stick around and do that dirty job.

Another reason is.. and yeah.. maybe that's also embarrassing. I have only a MacBook at home and can't really test on Windows. I know there is Bootcamp/Parallels, but I think I should just get a cheap used Windows laptop for testing.

Over the weekend I'll add the unprefixed properties and maybe do some more fixing. But one day I rather spend some time trying to LESS/SASSify them, or somebody else will.

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I've never done a tutorial before.. just demos. I'm not a big writer, it takes me forever and after a while I can't tell anymore if it makes any sense. But this time I felt I should try to write some more details. I hope you like it. I also wanna thank David for pointing out the custom data attributes and Drew for creating the Pictos Font. And everyone else that got me inspired.. no names, but I'm sure it's you too. ;-)

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TextMate has become an essential part of my development arsenal over the last few years.

When you first open up the application, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about- at first glance it looks like any other text editor.

The true beauty of TextMate is the plethora of bundles, add-ons, keyboard shortcuts and tab triggers available.

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Tip 1: Find Your Perfect Theme

Getting yourself hooked up with the right theme is essential to a good days development. There is a huge amount out there catering for virtually every taste, so make sure to hunt around for one that’s right for you. Personally I have two themes that really hit the right spot for me:

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  • IR Black & IR White – This is my go too when I’m cracking on with some Ruby work. Again in dark and light versions with fantastic syntax colors. You’ll also find a nice terminal modification for the theme around too.

Theme choice is very much down to preference and what you’ve been used to before, so when you find the right one for you you’ll know. Make sure to search around and give a few a go, but these two are in my mind a great place to start!

Tip 2: Have the Right Plugins

TextMate comes with a great stockpile of neat features out the box but there are a few things you’ll probably think are missing. Here are a few that I’d call essential to get:

  • MissingDrawer (Resurrected) – One gripe I had with TextMate from the start was the side drawer- mainly because it wasn’t a drawer at all. This plug-in solved my woes. This plug-in is a must for any serious developer.
  • AckMate – As the name suggests, this allows you to run ack within TextMate. TextMate comes with a regular project search, but this is much, much faster when you just want to do a bulk find for something.
  • ReMate – Now this plug-in won’t be useful to everyone, but it certainly is for me. If you work on a network mount in the office you’ll find that every time you switch in and out of TextMate your project refreshes and lags, causing you to wait a few seconds before you can do anything again. This plug-in de-activates the automatic refresh and helps save your sanity from going under!

Tip 3: Get the Best Bundles

Bundles are small add-ons that do great things. If TextMate doesn’t default support a language that you work in (HAML & SASS are prime examples) then you can be darn sure there’s a bundle for it out there somewhere. Bundles add syntax coloring, shortcuts and tab triggers to make your development as fast as it can be.

  • HAML & SASS Bundles – These are perhaps the most common bundles to be installed. If you work in HAML & SASS you’ll want these badly.
  • GIT Bundle – If you use GIT for your version control, then this is a bundle you can’t be without. It allows you to manage your repository from within TextMate, do blame checks and much more. There’s also an SVN Bundle if that’s more your thing.
  • CSS & HTML Bundles – Although TextMate comes with some of it’s own, you’re going to want to grab the ones from Minimal Design. They add fantastic tab triggers to virtually eliminate most typing.
  • jQuery Bundle – A great bundle for working with jQuery. Features tab triggers for many functions and some pretty good syntax highlighting.

Tip 4: Use those Sexy Shortcuts

This is where TextMate really comes into it’s own. You can find a shortcut for virtually any function to help you on your way to productivity success. There’s far too many to mention them all, but these are some of the key combos that I use on a daily basis.

  • ⌘T Go to File – This shortcut is truly second to none. Instead of trawling through your project drawer or going through the folders in your finder, use this to quickly jump straight to any file you wish to be in.
  • ⇧⌘TGo to Symbol – This works in the same way as Go to File but for within a specific file. Trying to find a set method or a global variable? Look no further good sir, this is what you need. Especially useful for when you’re working with a massive user model!
  • ⌘LGo to Line – If you’re debugging a stack trace, you’ll want to remember this one. Jump to an exact point within a file to squash that nasty bug!
  • ⇧⌘LSelect Line – Select the entire line of code you’re working on. Chances are you may want to follow it up with…
  • ⌃⌘ + ARROWMove Code – Move the selected code around the file, helps when doing some refactoring of that nasty functional code.
  • ⇧⌃⌥VSend selected to Pastie – This one is pretty unknown but handy. Send the selected code over to Pastie with a private URL for sharing the code – great when you need some feedback from a fellow developer.
  • ⌃SSimple Search – Most folks know about ⌘F as it’s the same in most applications. However in TextMate it loads up an additional window for find and replace which isn’t always what you want. This shortcut allows you to do a quick search in the current file iteratively.
  • ⌘] and ⌘[Block indentation – Indenting manually can be a pain – use these functions to indent blocks of code quickly and easily.
  • ⇧⌃TTo-do list – This feature scans the project for code marked as ‘FIXME’, ‘TODO’ and ‘CHANGED’. It provides an informative list of them along with comments.

Make sure to do some googling for even more handy functions – if you can think of it, it’s probably there!

Tip 5: Learn your Tab Triggers

Tab triggers are for quick code completion and are invaluable to the well-trained TextMate user. For example typing doctype TAB will give you the option of inserting the appropriate doctype of your choice into your document, even HTML5 if you have that bundle installed.

The triggers are different bundle to bundle, language to language, so make sure to check out your specific bundle for more details.

Where to go From Here?

The best way to learn TextMate is to use it and explore. Try new shortcuts out, look into the gears menu and google until your hearts content.

Also, if you have something specific that you find useful in TextMate, make sure to share it in the comments. One of the best ways to learn the secrets of TextMate is from each other!

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2 Comments

  • Dan Palmer

    # September 2, 2010 - 3:32 pm

    The best bundle is GetBundles. UI for browsing and installing bundles from several locations within TextMate itself.

    Reply
  • Montana Flynn

    # September 2, 2010 - 10:13 pm

    I agree with Dan, so many bundles are available! I just got the CSS3 & HTML5 bundles and they rock.

    Reply

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The C Library Reference Guide

by Eric Huss
© Copyright 1997 Eric Huss

Release 1

Introduction

1.   Language
     1.1  Characters
          1.1.1     Trigraph Characters
          1.1.2     Escape Sequences
          1.1.3     Comments
     1.2  Identifiers
          1.2.1     Keywords
          1.2.2     Variables
          1.2.3     Enumerated Tags
          1.2.4     Arrays
          1.2.5     Structures and Unions
          1.2.6     Constants
          1.2.7     Strings
          1.2.8     sizeof Keyword
     1.3  Functions
          1.3.1     Definition
          1.3.2     Program Startup
     1.4  References
          1.4.1     Pointers and the Address Operator
          1.4.2     Typecasting
     1.5  Operators
          1.5.1     Postfix
          1.5.2     Unary and Prefix
          1.5.3     Normal
          1.5.4     Boolean
          1.5.5     Assignment
          1.5.6     Precedence
     1.6  Statements
          1.6.1     if
          1.6.2     switch
          1.6.3     while  
          1.6.4     do
          1.6.5     for
          1.6.6     goto
          1.6.7     continue
          1.6.8     break
          1.6.9     return
     1.7  Preprocessing Directives
          1.7.1     #if, #elif, #else, #endif
          1.7.2     #define, #undef, #ifdef, #ifndef
          1.7.3     #include
          1.7.4     #line
          1.7.5     #error
          1.7.6     #pragma
          1.7.7     Predefined Macros
2.   Library
     2.1  assert.h
          2.1.1     assert
     2.2  ctype.h
          2.2.1     is... Functions
          2.2.2     to... Functions
     2.3  errno.h 
          2.3.1     EDOM
          2.3.2     ERANGE
          2.3.3     errno   
     2.4  float.h
          2.4.1     Defined Values
     2.5  limits.h
          2.5.1     Defined Values
     2.6  locale.h
          2.6.1     Variables and Definitions
          2.6.2     setlocale
          2.6.3     localeconv
     2.7  math.h
          2.7.1     Error Conditions
          2.7.2     Trigonometric Functions
               2.7.2.1   acos
               2.7.2.2   asin
               2.7.2.3   atan
               2.7.2.4   atan2
               2.7.2.5   cos
               2.7.2.6   cosh
               2.7.2.7   sin
               2.7.2.8   sinh
               2.7.2.9   tan
               2.7.2.10  tanh
          2.7.3     Exponential, Logarithmic, and Power Functions
               2.7.3.1   exp
               2.7.3.2   frexp
               2.7.3.3   ldexp
               2.7.3.4   log
               2.7.3.5   log10
               2.7.3.6   modf
               2.7.3.7   pow
               2.7.3.8   sqrt
          2.7.4     Other Math Functions
               2.7.4.1   ceil
               2.7.4.2   fabs
               2.7.4.3   floor
               2.7.4.4   fmod
     2.8  setjmp.h
          2.8.1     Variables and Definitions
          2.8.2     setjmp
          2.8.3     longjmp
     2.9  signal.h
          2.9.1     Variables and Definitions
          2.9.2     signal
          2.9.3     raise
     2.10 stdarg.h
          2.10.1    Variables and Definitions
          2.10.2    va_start
          2.10.3    va_arg
          2.10.4    va_end
     2.11 stddef.h
          2.11.1    Variables and Definitions
     2.12 stdio.h
          2.12.1    Variables and Definitions
          2.12.2    Streams and Files
          2.12.3    File Functions
               2.12.3.1  clearerr
               2.12.3.2  fclose
               2.12.3.3  feof
               2.12.3.4  ferror
               2.12.3.5  fflush
               2.12.3.6  fgetpos
               2.12.3.7  fopen
               2.12.3.8  fread
               2.12.3.9  freopen
               2.12.3.10 fseek
               2.12.3.11 fsetpos
               2.12.3.12 ftell
               2.12.3.13 fwrite
               2.12.3.14 remove
               2.12.3.15 rename
               2.12.3.16 rewind
               2.12.3.17 setbuf
               2.12.3.18 setvbuf
               2.12.3.19 tmpfile
               2.12.3.20 tmpnam
          2.12.4    Formatted I/O Functions
               2.12.4.1  ...printf Functions
               2.12.4.2  ...scanf Functions
          2.12.5    Character I/O Functions
               2.12.5.1  fgetc
               2.12.5.2  fgets
               2.12.5.3  fputc
               2.12.5.4  fputs
               2.12.5.5  getc
               2.12.5.6  getchar
               2.12.5.7  gets
               2.12.5.8  putc
               2.12.5.9  putchar
               2.12.5.10 puts
               2.12.5.11 ungetc
          2.12.7    Error Functions
               2.12.7.1  perror
     2.13 stdlib.h
          2.13.1    Variables and Definitions
          2.13.2    String Functions
               2.13.2.1  atof
               2.13.2.2  atoi
               2.13.2.3  atol
               2.13.2.4  strtod
               2.13.2.5  strtol
               2.13.2.6  strtoul
          2.13.3    Memory Functions
               2.13.3.1  calloc
               2.13.3.2  free
               2.13.3.3  malloc
               2.13.3.4  realloc
          2.13.4    Environment Functions
               2.13.4.1  abort
               2.13.4.2  atexit
               2.13.4.3  exit
               2.13.4.4  getenv
               2.13.4.5  system
          2.13.5    Searching and Sorting Functions
               2.13.5.1  bsearch
               2.13.5.2  qsort
          2.13.6    Math Functions  
               2.13.6.1  abs
               2.13.6.2  div
               2.13.6.3  labs
               2.13.6.4  ldiv
               2.13.6.5  rand
               2.13.6.6  srand
          2.13.7    Multibyte Functions
               2.13.7.1  mblen
               2.13.7.2  mbstowcs
               2.13.7.3  mbtowc
               2.13.7.4  wcstombs
               2.13.7.5  wctomb
     2.14 string.h
          2.14.1    Variables and Definitions
          2.14.2    memchr
          2.14.3    memcmp
          2.14.4    memcpy
          2.14.5    memmove
          2.14.6    memset
          2.14.7    strcat
          2.14.8    strncat
          2.14.9    strchr
          2.14.10   strcmp
          2.14.11   strncmp
          2.14.12   strcoll
          2.14.13   strcpy
          2.14.14   strncpy
          2.14.15   strcspn
          2.14.16   strerror
          2.14.17   strlen
          2.14.18   strpbrk
          2.14.19   strrchr
          2.14.20   strspn
          2.14.21   strstr
          2.14.22   strtok
          2.14.23   strxfrm
     2.15 time.h 
          2.15.1    Variables and Definitions
          2.15.2    asctime
          2.15.3    clock
          2.15.4    ctime
          2.15.5    difftime
          2.15.6    gmtime
          2.15.7    localtime
          2.15.8    mktime
          2.15.9    strftime
          2.15.10   time
Appendix A
	ASCII Chart
Index
	Index

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A Pause to Reflect: Five Lists of Five, Part II
The Most Important C++ Non-Book Publications...Ever
Opinion
by Scott Meyers
August 16, 2006

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In this article, Scott Meyers shares his picks for the five most important non-book publications in the history of C++, along with why he chose them.

Last week, in the first article in this series, I identified what I consider to be the most important C++ books, but many important publications about C++ didn’t come in book form. There were also articles in journals, magazines, and on the web; doctoral dissertations and conference proceedings; newsgroups postings; blog entries; standardization documents, etc. They’ve all played a role in the propagation of ideas seminal to the advancement of C++. I haven’t read all of them. I haven’t even read most of them. But as somebody whose job it is to follow C++, I can say that I’ve read a lot of them. This week’s list covers my choices for the five most important non-book publications in the history of C++. As I did when putting together my book list, I limited myself to exactly five publications, I included my own work in the set of candidates (though nothing I wrote was important enough to make the list), and I ordered the list entries by date of publication.

This category forced me to wrestle with a difficult question: if publication A contains an idea that has little direct impact on C++, but the author of publication B reads publication A and includes the idea in publication B, and if B then has wide effect, which publication is more important, A (the “inventor”) or B (the “popularizer”)? I chose B, not because this is inherently correct, but because I didn’t want to try to ferret out from the authors of the following publications whether their ideas were derived from other publications.1 Instead, I’m taking a page from the C++ language playbook. As you know, const is shallow in const member functions: pointer data members automatically become const, but what they point to doesn’t. In the following list, the publications I cite are, by definition, important, but I assume that the publications on which they are based (and of which I am ignorant) are unimportant. As in C++ itself, this may not be correct behavior, but it’s easy to implement, and it’s therefore what I do.2

Before proceeding to the list, kindly indulge me in a brief elegy for C++ Report, the most significant serial publication ever dedicated to C++. (If you’re not feeling kindly, just skip to the next paragraph.) During most of its years of publication (1989-2000), C++ Report was the paper-based watering hole for the movers and shakers of the C++ world. (The electronic analogue during that period was initially the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.c++ and later the newsgroups comp.std.c++ and comp.lang.c++.moderated.) Everybody who was anybody published in C++ Report, including names you’ve almost certainly heard of (e.g., all the authors on my “most important C++ books” list) and many more you may not have (e.g., the authors of some of the articles below, as well as....the list is too long to even start. I know, because I started it, and after a few names, I realized I would either have to include dozens or risk implying that omitted names were less important than included ones. Rather than do that, I’ll list none, but trust me, in its heyday—which was most of its life—C++ Report attracted the best authors in the business: the ones with the most interesting things to say and the greatest ability to say it.) When C++ Report closed shop, many of its columnists moved to C/C++ Users Journal, but that magazine never held the magic for me that C++ Report did, and now that CUJ is gone, there’s nothing left of C++ Report except prattling old codgers like me bemoaning the passage of time.

Okay, I feel better now, so let’s move on to my list of the five most important non- book C++ publications...ever:

  • Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations by Mats Henricson and Erik Nyquist, Ellemtel Telecommunication Systems Laboratories, 1992. I mentioned in my previous article in this series that by the early 1990s, many programmers were looking for guidance on how to harness the power of C++, and they were often interested in coding guidelines that would tell them what to do and what to avoid