Posts Tagged ‘Struggle’

ColorShift 0.6

Sooner rather than later it seems, you can now download Rotates ColorShift 0.6 and bask in its amazingness.
The main change is how you set your selectors; instead of writing your own jQuery to target the elements you want to change, you feed rotColShiftOpts.cssTransforms with an array of objects. This is what Rotates.org uses:
[
{
selector: "a, h2, [...]

Leaky pipes

Well, a tumultuous relationship with Yahoo Pipes has ended after a long struggle with various bugs, inefficiencies, annoyances and finally service refusal. There’s no doubt Pipes is a very useful and clever system, but it has some very serious downsides:

Caching – every pipe is rigorously cached, and updates are so infrequent as to allow bugs [...]