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Buddy Toups: A Designer’s Blog

Beginning Web Design - Part 1: Basic HTML

Filed under: Beginner Articles, HTML/CSS, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 5:09 am

This is the first in a series of tutorials about the basics of web design. These articles are written for individuals that have no prior computer programming knowledge but has basic computer skill: web browsing, file management, and word processing.
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jQuery for Designers - Part 1

Filed under: Graphic Design, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 5:15 am

This short series of tutorials will focus on learning jQuery - a lightweight but powerful JavaScript framework. This series jQuery for Designers mainly targeted for graphic designers, web designers, interface/GUI designers and front-end developers.

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How Tos: Auto Save Copy for TextMate

Filed under: Apple Related, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 1:55 pm

You might be migrating to TextMate from BBEdit or some other text editors. And used a featured that allowed automatic backup copies for ever file you edit and save and was looking for this feature in Textmate, honestly it doesn’t exist. I found a solution in TextMate’s Wiki that works, quiet well actually, you create a small command in the Bundle Editor:

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Sun Buys MySQL for One Billion

Filed under: MySQL, Technology, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 5:57 am

MySQL Logo

The latest technology news, besides MacBook AIR, is the Sun / MySQL buyout. This sounds like it can be great for the MySQL community, but is also quite scary. Sun has lots of money, resources and influences in the enterprise marketplace. This could mean faster, better, and more stable development efforts to the behind MySQL Server. MySQL 5 already has introduced enterprise additions like triggers, stored procedures, foreign key constraints, views, etc. and is used by Google and Facebook. But with this double edge sword Sun could keep all the latest and greatest under commercial license products only. I don’t think they would because that is what has made MySQL so great and the reason for buying MySQL AB.

Sun to acquire MySQL for $1B - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Rhino on Rails: Serious Server-side JavaScript

Filed under: Google, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Technology, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 5:10 am

I also always wanted to play with Rudy on Rails but then that met learning other language, Rudy. Don’t get me wrong its good to learn multiple computer languages, but its to find the time. Now a JavaScript version of Rails thats more productive. I always though JavaScript should be everywhere. Most programmers either know it or can pick it very quickly and it is very portable. So this is some great news and very cool project that could take the web development world by storm.

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How to Make Favicons For my Website!

Filed under: Graphic Design, HTML/CSS, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 11:55 am

Favicons are those small icons that appear some web browsers address bar and bookmarks.

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DMOZ Directory Mirrored on SPAM Sites!

Filed under: Google, SEO — Buddy Toups @ 10:36 am

Recently, I was researching backlinks for a client’s SEO project and found something interesting. They already were listed in DMOZ for years and I also found out some link farm / spam sites mirror the DMOZ directory. I’m still wondering if this helps or hurts SEO and rankings.

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Poor-mans FLV Streaming with PHP

Filed under: Miscellaneous, PHP, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 5:08 am

Version traduite de la page http://www.inwayvideo.com/psdemo1/index.html (Google Translation)

The link above is a technique using PHP scripts as a streaming servers. This is ideal for webmasters that cannot afford or don’t have enough video content to justify the cost of running or renting FLV stream hosting.

It work for the most part sometime I got a hiccup but its better playback then progressive downloading.

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GEAR UP! Web developers

Filed under: Google, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Miscellaneous, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 5:39 am

Very interesting new web browser plugin from Google called Google Gears. Its an open source (new BSD license) plugin that allows web developers the ability to (more…)

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Graphic & Web Design Firm Moved: Katy, TX

Filed under: Graphic Design, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Miscellaneous, MySQL, PHP, SEO, Web Development — Buddy Toups @ 8:00 am

Katy, Texas Graphic & Website designer

Our design firm’s (My Design Buddy’s) studio has recently moved offices from Houston, TX to Katy, TX. We will still provide our quality design services to anyone in the world. If you need to meet with our graphic designers or web designers in person we can meet in any surrounding areas of Houston, Katy, Woodlands, Cypress or Sugarland Texas. To setup an appointment see our information page. If you would like to review our company’s portfolio.

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