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Snippets in Notepad++

Snippets in Notepad++

I’m a massive fan of Notepad++, the lightweight Windows based text editor, it has a tiny footprint but packs enough features to make it my go-to Windows text editor. Up until quite recently however, I’d been missing snippets, but not any more.

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Quick links: ‘Multicolr’ image search and Git Immersion

Quick links: ‘Multicolr’ image search and Git Immersion

Couple of really great quick links I’m sharing today: one’s a really cool tool that can help you find images based on a certain colour palette; the other’s a great beginners tutorial for the Git version control system.

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Tool: A Google Maps powered Twilight/’Golden Hour’ Calculator

Tool: A Google Maps powered Twilight/’Golden Hour’ Calculator

No, not that Twilight. This is a really cool Google Maps powered tool that allows the budding photographer in us to work out when the ‘Golden hour’ is wherever we are on the planet.

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Book: jQuery Fundmentals

Book: jQuery Fundmentals

That was until recently when I discovered this excellent, comprehensive, lucidly written and above all free and ‘open-source’ eBook by Rebecca Murphy (@rmurphey) titled jQuery Fundamentals.
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W3C HTML5 Testing: IE9 comes out on top?

W3C HTML5 Testing: IE9 comes out on top?

Wait, did I read that right? Internet Explorer has just aced the W3C conformance tests for HTML5? Wow.

But why is this so surprising?
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