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On SEO and Search Engine Spamming - Schillmania.com

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On SEO and Search Engine Spamming. Originally written as a post on the design forum, TheRoot42. SEO", as done by most so-called SEO "companies" is basically, in my opinion,. The search engines with fake content, junk links or deceptive/misdirecting crap that tricks the search engines into giving you/your site. My feelings are that the best form of SEO is done by your web developer, working with whoever's doing the copywriting and the site owner. I guess this fits under the so-called "organic" SEO. Use mo...

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The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML)

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The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML). TL;DR version: I made some shiny. Turntables in your browser. wheelsofsteel.net. Safari 5 or Chrome 12 on OS X is best. The turntable is more than just a. Music player for the home. To the DJ, it's also a creative tool for remixing music in real-time. The turntable gave birth to a culture of disc jockeys and is an important element of hip-hop; it also plays a role, quite literally, in the evolution of electronic music. The turntable rig, May 2011.

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Even More Rounded Corners With CSS - Schillmania.com

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Even More Rounded Corners With CSS. How about glossy, rounded corner Mac OS X-style buttons with 100% CSS, two HTML elements and zero images? CSS 3 is coming, and you should start using it now if you aren't already. Take a look at CSS 3 and The Future: Image-free Rounded Corners, Drop Shadows and Gradients. Another Technique for The Pile. And at the end of it all, I'd say these look really nice (which ultimately in the " web 2.0-era web. Is a big thing these days.). CSS-only, no Javascript. Nonetheless, ...

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DHTML Arkanoid - Schillmania.com

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Arkanoid was one of the first "Breakout"-style games, to the best of my knowledge. It was very popular in the 1980s, and I remember playing it when I was younger. The arcade game was pretty hard to play too, because you had to use a paddle to control the . paddle. or maybe it was just because I was around 6 years old at the time. The goal was to effectively reproduce the gameplay and rules of the original (based on "Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH".) All of the original power-ups, brick types and the levels...

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Javascript Animation: Tutorial, Part 3 - Schillmania.com

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Javascript Animation: Tutorial, Part 3. Creating Motion Tweens in Javascript. This is the long-overdue final piece of a series on creating animations in Javascript; see part 1. In the Flash world, objects can be animated or morphed between one state and the next over a period of time. This is where the term tween. Comes in. The developer does not have to write code to make the animation sequence, they simply specify the start and end points and Flash dynamically generates the frames in-be tween. From': 2...

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CSS 3 and The Future: Image-free Rounded Corners, Drop Shadows and Gradients

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CSS 3 and The Future: Image-free Rounded Corners, Drop Shadows and Gradients. Rounded Corners (Were) Hard. If you build web things, then you know how difficult it can be to try hacking a non-square thing into the web's square-dominated CSS box model. Attempting to make a flexible, let alone fixed-width box appear to have rounded corners, drop shadows or gradients is an exercise in frustration. Searching the web reveals countless approaches, two of my own attempts included, to make rounded corners "just w...

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HD Time-Lapse Photography: A How-To

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How I Make "HD" Time-Lapse Video. Some time in 2008 I found myself buying cilantro and basil seedlings at the farmers' market in San Francisco, and happily planting them in a large box outside my window. Being the technology person I am, of course I wasn't happy to simply leave the plants to grow by themselves - that wouldn't be nerdy enough; something technology-related needed to be added to this project, if for nothing else to justify it to nerdier peers. First Attempt: Hacking Hardware Software. Secon...

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Javascript Malware Analysis: A Case Study

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Analyzing Javascript Malware: Obfuscated Evil. Hiding Dirty Deeds: "Encrypted" Client-Side Code. Since Javascript must be downloaded to run on the client, its source is easily accessible. The code can be captured either during transport, from within the browser, or on disk from cache. For this and other reasons, Javascript malware writers - admittedly a special breed - must resort to all sorts of dirty tricks to hide their particularly-special brand of internet douchebaggery. Tricks Of The Trade. With st...

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How SoundManager 2 Works

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How SoundManager 2 Works. SM2 = JavaScript, ExternalInterface and Flash. After a number of years of hacking away at this thing, I figured it'd make sense to detail some of the inner workings and design decisions behind SoundManager 2. In brief, a Javascript API for sound is presented to users, and internally the JS calls Flash methods (and vice versa) via. Building the JavaScript-side API. Flash 8, which introduced. Maps to a parallel. Method on the Flash side, where a. Object is made and stored in an ar...