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By now you have probably noticed a lot of “hand drawn” style web designs. It has become a very popular option for designers when a project calls for a fun and inviting theme. We’ve shown you where to get your hands on some really great hand drawn design elements, but if you are getting ready to start on a site design that requires this particular style, you will need some hand drawn fonts. Here are 21 of the best available. - Jordi

In this short tutorial, I'll share the technique I discovered while trying to quickly draw a creature with hairy body. Ideally, you need Wacom and a lot of time - then the hair you draw will be very good indeed. However, I found that this technique is not bad too, and it's much faster. So, to start with, create a shape of... something :-) - Jordi

What does Styleneat do exactly? It organizes and standardizes your CSS - selectors, sub-selectors and properties - in a structure that makes it easier to define page areas and see how they relate to each other. - Jordi

Converts CSS rules into inline style attributes. Useful for creating HTML newsletters - Jordi

Designers often have a lot of code snippets that is used most of the time; usually you can write it from scratch, edit existing ones or just use snippets and examples that other designers were kind enough to share. This is the main idea of this site is about, to server as a code snippet and design elements gallery where you could just find all in one place. The ultimate goal of DevSnippets is to categorize the huge amount of code snippets available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages. - Jordi

There are plenty of perfectly acceptable and functional websites out there that don’t use dynamic content. But what if you want to give your site that little something extra that makes your visitors say “Wow”? What then? - Jordi

Over the past few years Facebook has witnessed a dramatic rise in new user adoption and with that rise has come the opportunity for brands to interact directly with existing customers and engage new ones. At the end of 2007, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Pages and last week they launched a revised edition which includes a number of significant upgrades. This week, those pages will be going live for all. There are numerous ways for brands to leverage Facebook but the overall branded experience is becoming increasingly integrated into a single offering as the new Pages product highlights. So what are the primary benefits and changes for the new branded pages? - Jordi

Includes the Facebook Connect PHP5 rest library plus an updated User class library and libraries for interacting with friends and feeds to get you quickly working on new FB Connect applications. - Jordi

A website or web application’s high availability is very crucial; users who constantly encounter problems accessing the content of a site will not likely come back. For web applications - poor uptimes means users won’t be confident about your product: if they constantly experience issues with your apps’s availability, they will likely look for another solution that isn’t as problematic. - Jordi

An intimate, inspired, under-the-radar destination for opinion-makers and taste-traders. This is where diverse paths intersect, united by a passion for living and exploration. unlike.net conveys the city’s most treasured locations, events and urban themes, capturing the spirit of life on the go: through the intricate architecture of clubs, shops, restaurants, galleries, parks, museums… helping you feel at home wherever you are. - Jordi

When I was comparing performance of UNION vs MySQL 5.0 index merge algorithm Sinisa pointed out I should be using UNION ALL instead of simple UNION in my benchmarks, and he was right. Numbers would be different but it should not change general point of having optimization of moving LIMIT inside of union clause being cool thing. But So is UNION ALL indeed faster than UNION DISTINCT (the UNION is shortcut for UNION DISTINCT) ? Indeed it is. I did not have the same data as I used for the other test but I created similar test case - table with separate indexes on "a" and "b" columns with cardinality of 100, having about 40.000.000 of rows - Jordi

This is the ‘official’ home page for distribution of the Porter Stemming Algorithm, written and maintained by its author, Martin Porter. The Porter stemming algorithm (or ‘Porter stemmer’) is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English. Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process that is usually done when setting up Information Retrieval systems. - Jordi