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bastianallgeier / dabblet.css
Created January 5, 2012 08:17
PE to use SVG as CSS background image with fallback for IE8/7/6
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* PE to use SVG as CSS background image with fallback for IE8/7/6
*
* Using SVG as CSS background image to display
* resolution-independent logos or icons is pretty
* awesome but does completely fail on IE8/7/6
*
* The trick:
* All three IE versions don't support rgba color values.
* By defining a rgba background color together with the

Kirby + Patterns = <3

When I heard about Brad Frost's Patternlab for the first time at beyond tellerrand I was intrigued. The idea of splitting your design work for a website into simple modules or patterns isn't new and starts to become more and more of a standard. But organizing this into a very visual styleguide/patternlab seemed to make so much sense. Brad also introduced a very interesting approach with his separation of modules into categories, such as atoms, molecules and organisms.

I started porting Brad's patternlab app to Kirby, but it never really made it to something polished and it turned out for me after using it for Kirby's panel UI, that it's actually a pain in the ass to maintain such a pattern collection.

The problem of patternlab

The problem with such a styleguide or patternlab is that it exists next to the real thing. When you change something in your code base you also have to update the particular code for the pattern in patternlab. To be honest I went very quickly from being

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dylanmckay / facebook-contact-info-summary.rb
Last active March 12, 2024 22:46
A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.
# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
#
# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
#
# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created