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I recently created an interesting animation with Raphael.js. This looks better on the original page, but here’s a preview:

I’m working on creating a CMS (You’ll hear more soon enough), and I need a really basic textarea editor. The only things I need from the editor are:

• Tab gives several soft-spaces instead of tabbing to the next input

I’ve just released Typekit In Situ, which aims to help you see more realistic Typekit font previews. Check it out on Github.

On the project I mentioned yesterday, I created some really nice CSS “buttons”. The buttons were actually just links with some nice styling, but they’d become a distinctive feature of the UI. Unfortunately, your only options for submit buttons are a regular button or an image, which wouldn’t mesh well with the rest of my UI. You can submit a form via Javascript, but I’m not sure if you can send a commit message that way, and I happened to need the message.

I’m finishing up a new site. The design is probably my best graphical work yet. I’ll post a link once I’ve finished.

I created a screencast demonstrating how to set up sharding with MongoDB 1.6.0. Check it out, and be sure to leave a comment if you found it useful.

I’m in the process of migrating my blog from WordPress. I’m fed up with not having control over my layout, and the restrictions on javascript/embedding. This blog is based on Adam Wiggins’ Scanty, though I’ve had to make a few changes. I expect to be making a lot more changes over the course of the next few days.