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Staff Blog

Want to learn what goes on in the minds of Plain Black's staff? Then look no further, you've hit the mother load. For starters, we have weekly updates to Design Squid, articles from Plain Black's design team regarding topics from CSS tricks to Photoshop tutorials.

Plus, you can look forward to posts from our development staff, and even quick tips on WebGUI. Come back often, we'll be here.

  • Design Squid posts, our tips and tricks
  • General Plain Black staff posts
 
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By: preaction
2/23/2010 @ 11:41 pm - Navigations are often the slowest part of the WebGUI site. Here's how to make them fast.
Previous Articles
 
(10/1/2009 @ 3:41 pm)
Adventures in migrating solutions
By: sno
GIT diff muscle
 
(9/30/2009 @ 11:53 pm)
Pagination
By: hao
Pages, pages everywhere.
 
(9/4/2009 @ 12:44 pm)
CSS Image Rollovers
By: Meatbop
Do you use image rollovers? Do you still use Javascript to do it? There's a better way.
 
(9/4/2009 @ 12:44 am)
I'm a YUI Contributor!
By: preaction
My experience becoming a contributor to the YUI project.
 
(8/31/2009 @ 9:44 pm)
Warning: CPAN Module May Explode
By: hao
Another Aid in Laziness
 
(8/7/2009 @ 9:50 am)
To Flash or Not to Flash
By: Meatbop
The age old question - Should we build this website in Flash?
 
(7/29/2009 @ 12:37 pm)
The extraordinary WebGUI scratch pad
By: sno
How I learned to love multi-form processing in WebGUI.
 
(7/27/2009 @ 2:40 pm)
It's not easy being 'green'
By: Vrby
One family's transformation.
 
(7/21/2009 @ 12:19 am)
How To Annoy a Hacker
By: preaction
If you're working with hackers, you should know these 6 ways to annoy them.
 
By: tabb
We're looking for themes from the community, we're offering loads of karma, and this just in -- extra time to get your submissions in!
 
(7/14/2009 @ 12:19 am)
Useful Shell Stuff
By: preaction
Some command-line tricks you might find useful.Pro
 
By: Vrby
Get your tickets and book your hotel now.
 
(7/6/2009 @ 11:09 pm)
Safari Four For Developers
By: preaction
Firefox has left my dock. Safari is back in. What brings such change?
 
(7/6/2009 @ 5:04 pm)
Sticky CSS Footer
By: Meatbop
There's lots of information on sticky footers using CSS on the web, but none of them quite fit the bill.
 
(7/1/2009 @ 2:19 pm)
Human Testing is still necessary
By: fdillon
 
(6/30/2009 @ 11:48 pm)
Shop Talk
By: hao
Hacking the WebGUI Shop.
 
(6/30/2009 @ 10:21 am)
Low-hanging Fruit
By: frodwith
Why don't people release more code on CPAN?
 
(6/29/2009 @ 11:43 pm)
YAPC|10 in Pittsburgh
By: preaction
Doug's First YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) proves to be an informative and fun experience with only a slight hint of debauchery.
 
By: sno
The march of computer technology through the eyes of a front seat passenger.
 
By: Vrby
What happened to the newspaper?
 
(5/31/2009 @ 10:51 pm)
An Idea
By: hao
WebGUI MMORPG?
 
(5/30/2009 @ 2:27 pm)
Destination: Frustration
By: preaction
A short diatribe on the limitations of the Google Maps API.
 
By: sno
Challenging hard things can be hard, but often they are worth the result.
 
(5/27/2009 @ 4:58 pm)
Secure Password Storage
By: frodwith
Paul talks about the relative security of WebGUI's password storage and a plan for improvement.
 
(4/30/2009 @ 10:31 pm)
Resync’ing Subversion in Git
By: hao
How to resync the cloned Subversion data in your Git repository.
 
(4/30/2009 @ 1:15 pm)
The path to real success
By: sno
The iterative growth of a pragmatic soul
 
(4/27/2009 @ 2:04 pm)
A Silver Lining
By: Vrby
Plain Black is thriving even in a down economy.
 
(4/27/2009 @ 11:54 am)
You got your ORM in my WebGUI!
By: frodwith
In which Paul rambles about embedding SQL in Perl and pushes his first Bazaar contribution.
 
By: mego
Take an opportunity get creative and even get a little more green. The internet is an excellent tool that can help us all be even more resourceful.