How to setup a production web environ and deploy to it with git.

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8th District City Council candidate Cindy Bass speaks Mt. Airy voters in our living room:

AnOther presents Tom Ford's five easy lessons in how to be a modern gentleman, taken from Jefferson Hack's intimate conversation which appears in full in the issue.

Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), KO can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.

Learn how to handle your liquor or your liquor will handle you, and not in a good way.

Your Apple Time Capsule has died, but don’t despair. Here you can find all the information that we’ve gathered on this matter over the last few months.

Creativity breathes life into successful websites. However, creative ideas and solutions can sometimes seem like guesswork—and guessing is risky business. So what can designers do to show clients they’re using a solid strategy and have the best intentions? The following exercises are a great way to start discussing and documenting aspects of design to help clients shed their fear of creativity and encourage them to join the design process.

This is interesting. DailyLit lets you serialize your intake of great literature by reading books by email or RSS:

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RT @ehooge: Encourage citizens to contribute ideas of improvement rather than just complaining about problems (by @aa ...

“@rbarrimond: likes Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) by Vince Guaraldi Trio on Ping That entire album is great.

This fall we worked with Joya, a small factory and candle producer in Brooklyn, New York. The project was something we had wanted to do for a while and fortunately the small company's creative thinking and flexibility allowed us to create our perfect candle for this time of year. After a rigorous sampling and smell testing period, we decided on the very pleasant combination of Fig, Sunwashed Oak & Amber.
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Handcrafted in New York by Joya

Philadelphia Eagles' Stadium Is Becoming Energy Self-Sufficient

Unless you nerd out on Swiss precision and underwater dials, you don't have to drop thousands on a timepiece. Any of these tell time just fine—and they're inspired by the Cartier tank, the Rolex Air King, and the more modern Chanel J12.

Dressing well doesn't have to mean spending a fortune. It's about combining old-school know-how (Yeah, you better have a skilled tailor) with the realization that there are now more affordable style-centric stores than ever. Here's where—and how—to shop, the items you should always buy for less, and the 25 rules that will make you a better-dressed, more cost-conscious man

This module supports eBay's Shopping and Trading API services. In addition, eBay::API::Simple comes with a standard RSS and HTML backend.

"Philadelphia 2035", the first comprehensive blueprint for the city's growth and development since the 1960's: (PDF)

The wireless network in your house is probably OK as long as you have secured it with some sort of encryption like WPA. Someone would have to actually be on the network to sniff traffic on it. Keep your network password-protected, and let only trusted people use it.

What if you like to take advantage of the open WiFi access in cafes, libraries, hotels, and so on? In those places, you can take some basic precautions. Eric Butler offers some good ideas in his day-after followup. The entire post is well worth reading.

My solution was to use a SSH tunnel.

The Next Real Estate Boom - Patrick C. Doherty and Christopher B. Leinberger

NYTimes: My Endless New York

The federal government is at the center of a massive cheese-industrial complex:

“@phillymag: Want to make Philly better? Try this! I dunno about the cineplex, but I hope this sparks more discussion.

Carmakers' next problem: Gen Y: Sitting in traffic and parking costs outweigh the benefits of driving in Philly for me.

RT @PhillyInquirer: Inga Saffron: New South Street bridge is a connection for more than cars

@SEPTA Love that new train smell!

Yay! RT “@septa: Press event Friday 10/29 at 9:30 a.m. celebrating the Silverliner V entering passenger service.

@pobox This "spam kingpin" was apparently responsible for 50 billion emails per day, one-fifth of all global traffic.

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RT @philliefoodie: In my next life, I will be a french school child -- at least at lunchtime.

Thanks for the update! “@campisia: My piece on continued problems with the new @SEPTA Silverliner V railcars - "

Justify text using javascript.

How to properly wash denim is a hot button issue in the style world. Ask anyone and you're likely to get answers that range from "in the laundry machine after each wear" to "are you crazy? Never wash them!" While we won't presume to tell you what's right for each man and his dungarees, here's a helpful guideline for cleaning your jeans.

The goal of Envjs is to provide a highly portable javascript implementation of the Browser as a scripting environment ( often referred to as a 'headless' browser ).

Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.

Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently. Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep. If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation.

A pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library.

I want to share a little trick I utilize when it concerns laundering my dress shirts at home. Now, we all understand that excessive dry cleaning can weaken the fibers of certain articles of clothing due to exposure to high temperatures and chemical solvents. I totally understand that severely soiled garments would be better suited for a professional cleaning. However, some gentlemen choose to launder and press their clothing themselves. Just recognize that the washing machine can be brutal on clothes too. How many times has the gentleman extracted his dress shirt from the washing machine after it had been wrapped around the agitator? Too many times.

This is a shop where a man goes to become a gentleman.

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This document outlines our de-facto code standards. The primary motivation is two- fold: 1) code consistency and 2) best practices. By maintaining consistency in coding styles and conventions, we can ease the burden of legacy code maintenance, and mitigate risk of breakage in the future. By adhering to best practices, we ensure optimized page loading, performance and maintainable code.

body and html are already wrappers.

A place for nopasting code

A JavaScriptish companion to Mark-Jason Dominus's Higher-Order Perl http://hop.perl.plover.com/

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Become a git power user with these commands

Tool for collaborative editing of javascript.

List of HTML5 resources. (Hint: HTML5 isn't scary + You can use it today) /by @sixrevisions

Informative video from the recent 2010 O’Reilly Velocity conference on how to optimize CSS while avoiding some of the most common mistakes developers make. It’s especially useful for those of you with big CSS payloads. The first speaker is a little dry, but the fun picks up when Nicole Sullivan takes over about five minutes in.

In short, any browser that supports the :before and :after psuedo-elements (all major browsers) can take advantage of this effect.

Perhaps the most frequent question we get at Put This On is: “what are the essential elements of a man’s wardrobe?” Often it is framed in the context of something like, “if I were to buy five items to wear all the time and I never had to go shopping or buy anything again…”

s there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

Tooltip replaces native tooltips, making them themable as well as allowing various customizations:
display other content than just the title, like inline footnotes or extra content retrieved via Ajax
customize the positioning, eg. to center the tooltip above elements
add extra classes to customize the appearance, for warning or error fields
A fade animation is used to show and hide the tooltip, making the appearance a bit more organic, compared to just toggling the visiblity.

How do you know if a plugin is good to use? It's always dependant on the problem they're trying to solve, but in lieu of a better jQuery plugin ranking system, here's a couple of tips that should raise a red flag.

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