52 Clix Blog

It's a rake! It's a back scratcher! It's all-in-one!

2008-10-29T10:58:13Z

So you have a rake. Part of a rake is a long stick. And so you think to yourself, hey, back scratchers have long sticks too! Let's put a mini "rake" on the other end of the actual rake and boffo! The Snowball Begins 52 Clix hosts monthly photo wa...

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Free U.S. Geo Data You Didn't Know About

2008-08-14T15:11:51Z

Several years and fewer gray hairs ago, I developed an application just like Citysearch for a client. It was focused on restaurants which catered to the wine crowd, with byob service. The client requested the ability to search restaurants through...

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Firefox Self-Correcting Markup & You

2008-08-08T11:02:53Z

After a painful struggle with an odd visual bug, I can fully declare victory and share my learning with The Internets. To the Point I was going to give a succinct problem and solution here, but I honestly have no idea what the reason is behind wh...

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Little Big World

2008-07-24T17:51:27Z

There are a lot of factors which go in to making a successful social Web application. Keeping spammers at bay, ensuring a snappy response time for users, slaying the Fail Whale and so on. However, one feature to a site that must exist as you bec...

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Firefox 3 hates your CSS

2008-07-15T13:25:31Z

Firefox 3 was released about a month ago as of this post. It's definitely zippier, which any user can love. And it's now Acid2-compliant, which CSS nerds love. The people who don't love it? Those of us who have to fix our code to play nice with it...

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Fast, Cheap & Easy

2008-06-03T23:36:38Z

Client-side image resizing 52 Clix expects to have 2 types of users: photo casualists (this is not a word) and photo enthusiasts. We love both groups and so we want to cater to both. This blog post discusses meeting the needs of the casualists (s...

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First!

2008-06-03T21:17:02Z

The overall theme and frequency of this blog will be sporadic. We apologize in advance. This blog will cover events, design decisions and general start-up thoughts related to 52 Clix, a burgeoning start-up created for the purpose of breathing ext...

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