Well not really, but In the last week I finally had the opportunity to code something using HTML5 and CSS3, not that I haven’t done it before, but this would be the 1st time that someone else would get to see it.

“Why did it take so long?” you might ask, and the reason is simple.. most people that I do coding for just isn’t at the point where they think they need to drop older browsers and start doing cool things. So as you can imagine I was quite excited when this opportunity fell in my lap.

I specifically had to make a lot of use of three properties in particular: background gradients, rounded corners and drop shadows. The cool thing is that by just using those three properties you can make a rich, great looking, interface without using even a single image.

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A coupe of months ago I started using tumblr and the 1st thing that got to me was that I couldn’t monetize or track it properly, simply because it was on their servers and I didn’t have proper code access. Call me a control freak, but I like full access to stuff.

At that point I decided to build my own open-source tumblr clone. I got quite far in the process and even though it might not look as pretty as the original it does most of it.

The reason I decided post it on here was because I simply don’t have time to work on this anymore and I hope that by posting it here someone else can get some value form it.

Here’s what it doesn’t do yet:
- even though I started working on this, it doesn’t post to twitter/facebook/other social network yet
- It’s not completely theme-able. I started writing functions for this and it’s about half way done (with some provisions in the DB for this as well)
- It doesn’t have a flashy interface, It does have a usable interface, but it’s not as nice as say WordPress.

Installation:
- Import the DB into MySQL.
- Update the setting in the \config.php file.
- And run that easy
- Admin area can be reached by going to: yourdomain.com/admin (u: admin, p: pa55word)

I decided to put this code on sourceforge in the hopes that people who make updates will upload them and together we can make a rad product.

You can grab the source-code here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ninjatumble/files/

This code is completely free to use, but if you do something with it that generates money please don’t be a douche ( ) and swing some beer money my way.

Please note that I will not provide any support for this code, at all, and I take no responsibility for anything good, bad or ugly that might happen as a result of it. By downloading this code you acknowledge that.

I normally like someone to explain something to me like I’m 10 years old when I’m new to the thing or concept in question. The reason for this is that I find the details to get in the way when trying to understand the basics.

I decided to write a short article about HTML5, and it’s place in the future, in the way I would have liked it to be explained to me right i the beginning. This is a broad overview and if you don’t agree with anything, please leave a comment.

Even though the specification for HTML5 is expected to reach the candidate recommendation stage in 2012 and only be finalized by 2022, we can already start to see some of the advantage of the new standard in modern web browsers like Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Firefox and Even Internet Explorer 9.

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