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benfrain

  1. Any good PHP/Wordpress backend folk in South Cheshire, UK? Looking for someone to partner with on lots of forthcoming projects.
  2. Struggling to enjoy #coda2 at present. No auto-indent, no upload on save, no one-click open. So many things I've got used to using Sublime.
  3. Hey @panic - any chance of code folding in Sass files in #coda2 in the future? Built in compile a la LiveReload would be most welcome to…
  4. “@DeathStarPR: Now you're just some Jedi that I used to know... benfra.in/1yc #StarWars” genius!
  5. @jensimmons only just started listening to The Web Ahead and it's really, really good. There's more on the way right?
  6. @Jnffc great stuff. Love to know what you make of it!
  7. @SurefireMedia Plus, as wrong as it feels, IE10 is actually rather good!
  8. So #Coda2 is out Thursday. Been using Sublime Text2 for a while and not sure if Coda2 can supplant it. However at $49 for the first day...
  9. @CompassSusy excellent, feel more like a cone head every day!
  10. @CompassSusy *think* I've submitted a correct pull request now??? Apologies!
  11. @CompassSusy Mmm, I'm a bit of a GitHub dunce. Went to fork and add your site, added my site. It's now here: github.com/bfuk/susy
  12. @patrickhawley @bentrain Hi Patrick, drop me your email address and I'll get a copy of the book sorted for you.
  13. @CompassSusy Done!
  14. @CompassSusy my site's (benfrain.com) using Susy - I love it; cracking bit of kit, well done!
  15. @adactio re trigram, not looked into this fully yet but doesn't seem to display on Blackberry handset. Don't think BB supports the language.
  16. @meyerweb We've never spoke: 'Hi'. I made it to the end of The Web Ahead podcast; you should totally write that book. Would be fascinating!
  17. What is developing for Old IE and the desktop costing us? benfra.in/1yb
  18. Competition time! Win a copy of my book, 'Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3' here: benfra.in/1ya
  19. Finally found a simple screen casting app for OSX that let's you pause and resume recording: araelium.com/screenflick/. Only $29 too...
  20. Interested in marrying Responsive Web Design with Server Side Components? Great intro on RESS @netmag by @andmag netmagazine.com/tutorials/gett…