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Front-End Book is a Comment-friendly Blog

By Mattias Hising | Published: October 20, 2008
I have added three new features to this blog in order to give people who comment a little extra back whenever they take some time and add a comment to my postings. 1. Remove nofollow on comments We are using the plugin NoFollow Free by  Michele Marcucci. That plugin removes the nofollow from author links in comments [...]
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WordPress 2.7 Looks Good

By Mattias Hising | Published: October 17, 2008
Today the design of the upcoming release of WordPress 2.7 was released, and I really like it. Mad props to Matt Thomas and Andy Peatling for their visual talents. You can expect these designs to be extended to the rest of the 2.7 screens and implemented over the coming weeks. The new navigation seems like it is [...]
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jQuery announces partnership with Microsoft and Nokia

By Mattias Hising | Published: September 28, 2008
jQuery looks more and more as the standard JavaScript-library, distributed with Microsoft Visual Studio and Nokias SKD:s for widgets in the future. “Additionally Microsoft will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within your .NET applications.” “Nokia is looking to use jQuery to develop applications for their [...]
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Bruce Springsteen, The River in Copenhagen – Off Topic

By Mattias Hising | Published: September 16, 2008
This is just amazing. Bruce Springsteen captured on film making a wonderful version of The River on the streets of Copenhagen in the end of the 80’s.  
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The Strategy behind Google Chrome

By Mattias Hising | Published: September 4, 2008
No one, not even my wife, have missed that there is a new player on the browser scene, Google Chrome. Though we have different views on the topic, both me and my wife had the same questions and comments popping up. Why are they releasing a browser? If someone can gain market shares on the browser market, [...]
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4 Great Books for Increasing Revenue From Your Website

By Mattias Hising | Published: September 3, 2008
Right now I am reading two books on the benefits of collective intelligence, and have just finished two others with focus on optimizing your website technically, in conversion rates, through usability and performance. All these books are of interest to people who takes a scientific approach to developing and tuning the website he/she is running. High Performance [...]
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The Front End Guy is the Go To Guy – Human Interfaces

By Mattias Hising | Published: August 30, 2008
I do not know how many of you who work with front-end related tasks on a daily basis, but I sure do. One thing I have learned is that working with front-end related entities makes you connect to a lot of different departments within an organisation. Often this is a good thing, sometimes it is [...]
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jQuery UI now with Enchant as Effect-engine

By Mattias Hising | Published: May 5, 2008
Saw that jQuery UI has been updated to 1.5b4 and that Enchant is now part of UI as the effects engine. Neat. This is what jQuery needs. jQuery started out as a good library, and from my point of view the only usable javascript library for high traffic websites with more than one developer working on [...]
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3 tips for a more dynamic website in less than an hour

By Mattias Hising | Published: April 29, 2008
This post aims at giving you 3 tips for achieving a more dynamic webpage with very little programming and no change in your workflow. The tools we are going to use are: Yahoo Pipes Twitter Wordpress Delicious Magpie RSS What we would like to achieve is a website that feels more dynamic even when you are not writing articles on your [...]
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Video on Flickr

By Mattias Hising | Published: April 9, 2008
I follow Nate Koechly on Twitter and saw that he tweeted about Flickr finally have launched video. Now the low $25 dollars for this superb service is even more valuable. Have a look at the new feature here. Updated: Original post to Flickr Blog Help Section on Flickr Follow me on twitter.
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