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Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Both the BBC and Fox news web sites have recently been redesigned, with the BBC losing its looks and Fox getting neat and serious.
jQuery diagramming with jsPlumb — cool.
Another wonderful blog post by Walter Russell Mead, this time hoping that the blogosphere find a not-so-distant mirror in 18th-century London.
Google argues that its mobile YouTube site is better than its YouTube iPhone app.
Jakob Nielsen tests reading usability on the iPad and Kindle and reports that they’re almost as good as reading on paper. People didn’t like reading on PCs — it reminded them of work.
Falling out of love with the iPad. None of this surprises me.
Wow, icons made entirely in CSS3 (currently Safari, Chrome only).
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This widely-installed ExpressionEngine add-on is a general-use text-formatting plugin that enables access to PHP string functions without activating PHP in the template.
Why would you not want to activate PHP in your template? One important scenario for the plugin is that you actually have activated PHP, but set to parse at the input stage, while you need something else done in the same template requiring PHP to be set at the output stage. Also, people just like using it, particular in templates where not much PHP is needed.
The download file contains a version of the plugin for both EE v1.x and v2.x.
Threads at the ExpressionEngine Forums where PHPStringFun is mentioned as a solution:
- String Functions?
- removing a specific set of characters from a variable
- phpStringFun and Magpie
- Plugin: Child Categories
- Test if field contains string?
- Checking the first 4 characters of a field
- Limiting Summary
- Plugin to delete some segment of text
- Deleting a string segment
- how to shorten (format) a text/string?
- Force lower case
- Variable modification: lowercase/uppercase transformations, etc.
- How to extract the 3 left characters of a string
- Simple Breadcrumb Menu Code
- Format numbers using EE
- Displaying “read more” next to the body’s last character
- Dropcaps Plugin