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Farewell Tumblr, It's Been A Blast

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +1000

In late January we moved the Envato Marketplace blogs here to Tumblr, and it has been a blast. A crazy 4,006 posts later over seven tumblogs, we’ve come to appreciate Tumblr’s speed and flexibility, its informal atmosphere, its variety of post types, its integration with other social media sites, and its bookmarklet that allows you to create Tumblr content from just about anywhere.

Many of you have found a home at Tumblr too, with 1,252 of you creating your own tumblogs and following us. If you’d like to give your new home a fresh coat of paint, you’ll want to check out ThemeForest’s Tumblr Themes section and pick out something that appeals.

But it’s time for us to move on. A new unified blog called Envato Notes will be launched in the next day or so. The new blog will support marketplace authors, sharing tips and giving advice that will help you market yourself more effectively. It will also be a central place for the community to get together and keep up with the latest Envato news.

Besides visiting the new blog, make sure you’re following CodeCanyon on Twitter, hang out on the CodeCanyon forums, and keep your skills up to date by regularly visiting Nettuts+ and Mobiletuts+.

See you around!

katykelley: The Mind of a Web Developer antonelli:...

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:51:54 +1000

katykelley:

The Mind of a Web Developer

antonelli: fuckyeahcomputerscience

Subtle CSS3 Typography that you’d Swear was Made in...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:37:07 +1000

Subtle CSS3 Typography that you’d Swear was Made in Photoshop

“Thanks to text shadows, outlines, transitions, and even text gradients, we can now create cool typography that you’d swear had to be made with a program like Photoshop. Nope, all CSS3 baby! Let’s take a look in this video quick tip.”

The file of the day is Auto Image Gallery by...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:46:03 +1000

The file of the day is Auto Image Gallery by divergence.

“The Auto Image Gallery is a ASP .NET user control which can be inserted into your web site and provide automatic thumbnail generation for a image gallery based on whatever files exist in your defined image gallery folder.”

Best 10 Cheap Web Hosting Providers

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:02:25 +1000

Best 10 Cheap Web Hosting Providers :

“If you own a website and have your own domain name registered, chances are that you also have a hosting provider where you have uploaded all the files of your website. It’s very important on the part of bloggers or webmasters to choose a reputed hosting provider for their business.

“Using a good web hosting provider ensures that your website is running smoothly and do not face any down times or server side problems.”

Quick Tip: An Introduction to Sammy.js

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:35:34 +1000

Quick Tip: An Introduction to Sammy.js:

“You’ve been seeing it for a while now with Google’s Reader, Gmail, and most recently, on Facebook. Probably, you, too, would like to write RESTful evented JavaScript applications. Well, fellow developers, meet Sammy.js, a tiny JavaScript framework built on top of jQuery. Sammy utilizes the URL hash (#) to allow you to create single page AJAX applications that respond to your browser’s back button. Interested?

“In this article, I’ll be providing a short overview of the framework, and then a brief demonstration of what it’s like working with Sammy.js, with the hope of enticing you enough to consider it for your projects.”

The file of the day is Form Processor by Sitebase. “With...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:17:36 +1000

The file of the day is Form Processor by Sitebase.

“With form processor you can convert a static form into a working form in less than 5 minutes. For the moment it has 2 buildin handlers to send the form content with mail or to save the content in a CSV file. But with a bit of PHP knowledge you can easely write your own handlers.”

"I want a website that pops-up on peoples GPS systems when they drive by my store. Let’s take a range..."

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:28 +1000

““I want a website that pops-up on peoples GPS systems when they drive by my store. Let’s take a range of 5km.””

- (via clientsfromhell)

HTML5 Apps: What, Why, and How

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:37:31 +1000

HTML5 Apps: What, Why, and How :

“If you want to build web apps, you might want to think about using HTML5. HTML5 is the new hotness when it comes to app development, and it has the potential to change the way software is made and sold. It also activates the millions of people out there who know how to make web pages, and never thought their skill set could be used for something else. But before jumping into development, there are some things you should know about HTML5. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you the basics!”

This week’s featured item is WordPress Community Links by...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:08:00 +1000

This week’s featured item is WordPress Community Links by garyc40.

“Looking for a way to add Digg-like features to your WordPress site? WP Community Links is the best premium plugin on the market that lets you do just that, within minutes!”

Backup Data Stored On Email Servers And Online Social Networks...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:50:47 +1000

Backup Data Stored On Email Servers And Online Social Networks With Backupify

“Through emails and online social networks, you share a lot of information with your friends. This includes photographs, videos, documents, and a lot more. All this data is stored on the website you are using. In case of a website glitch or a mistake by you, the data is removed you would lose many important things. Take Facebook for instance; if your data was removed from there you would lose photos, videos, notes, wall posts, event dates, and probably even more. Backupify is a tool that prevents such situations.”

Building Persistant Sticky Notes with Local Storage “HTML5...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:05:15 +1000

Building Persistant Sticky Notes with Local Storage

“HTML5 local storage is like cookies on steroids; it’s incredibly simple to use and yet still so powerful. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create ‘sticky notes’ functionality, that allows your users to take persistent notes while browsing your site.”

Our current featured author here on CodeCanyon is 5thSenseLabs ...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:03:13 +1000

Our current featured author here on CodeCanyon is 5thSenseLabs who joined in February 2010, has a portfolio of 30 items for sale and has racked up 318 sales!
View 5thSenseLabs’ Portfolio

Freelancers Leaving the Comfort Zone “You’ve spent years...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:04:58 +1000

Freelancers Leaving the Comfort Zone

“You’ve spent years honing your design skills in that corporate cubicle you’ve been living in, hoping for the day when you would finally make the jump to full time freelance. You’ve taken on some side jobs from some friends or friends of friends, but now you are itching to be out on your own. There’s just one glitch…

“You know that corporate sales guy that’s been out getting those web and print design orders that land on your desk everyday? He’s not coming with you on your freelance excursion down the yellow brick road. From now on, you’ll be doing his job too.”

Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast Training Courses

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:55:11 +1000

Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast Training Courses:

“Education is expensive…very expensive! But, luckily, 95% of the tutorials and courses on Nettuts+ are free! And, should you require more training, a Tuts+ premium subscription is extremely cheap, at only $9 per month. Whether you’re hoping to learn jQuery, WordPress, CSS, Tumblr, PHP, CodeIgniter, or JavaScript, we’ve got you covered! Further, if screencasts are your thing, you’re particularly in luck, thanks to our in depth video courses, listed below!”

The file of the day is LogPress by Sitebase. “This plugin...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:31:16 +1000

The file of the day is LogPress by Sitebase.

“This plugin will help you to debug and speedup development of wordpress plugins and themes. Besides loggin PHP error it can log a bunch of other things to help you make your website better.”

50 Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Plugins “We...

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:35:19 +1000

50 Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Plugins

“We are regulalry collecting useful JavaScript and jQuery snippets, libraries, articles, tools and resources and present them in compact round-ups here, on Noupe. This time we are again covering some useful JavaScript and jQuery techniques, plugins and tools that may help you improve the user experience for your site.”

The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements “PHP’s prepared...

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:50:29 +1000

The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements

“PHP’s prepared statements (for database access) are fantastic. Not only do they help secure your database queries, but they’re also particularly more efficient for larger products. However, there are a couple issues that appear to make these methods less flexible than we’d hope. For one, we must utilize the bind_result method, and pass in a specific number of variables. However, what happens when this code is within a class, and we won’t immediately know how many variables to pass? Luckily, there’s a solution! I’ll show you what it is in today’s video tutorial.”

CodeIgniter from Scratch: Profiling, Benchmarking &...

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:37:40 +1000

CodeIgniter from Scratch: Profiling, Benchmarking & Hooks

“In this 15th episode of the series, we are going to learn about three subjects: Profiling, Benchmarking and Hooks. You can use these tools to analyze your CodeIgniter applications performance, and figure out what part of the code you need to optimize. We are also going to make even further improvements to the Profiler library to suit our needs.”

The file of the day is Wordpress AdminPage Class by...

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:23:10 +1000

The file of the day is Wordpress AdminPage Class by Merguez.

“Ever wanted to build your own Wordpress Option Pages for your Theme, your Plugin or something else? Then you maybe run crazy with all these parameters, function calls and things to keep in mind. This is where the AdminPage Class comes in to save the princess. AdminPage Class is no plugin! It’s made for theme developers, who want to give their users a cool interface and prevent them from damaging it in any way.”