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Re:5 minute fork on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:57PM (#5395427)
I never bother with an orphan branch, just create a gh-pages branch from master and fast-forward it when you want to "deploy".
Re:Peity - Little charts for little projects on Friday June 22, 2012 @08:09AM (#4146407)
Just because it's a standard doesn't mean it's spelt correctly ;) HTTP referer [sic] comes to mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Re:Peity - Little charts for little projects on Friday June 22, 2012 @04:38AM (#4145980)
Yes I wish I'd done that 2 1/2 years ago!
Re:Peity - Little charts for little projects on Thursday June 21, 2012 @07:03PM (#4144601)
Day-a-tee sounds about right - but I'm not precious. It was a deliberate miss-spelling of "pie" with some other letters added on... and quite possibly a mistake.
Re:Peity - Little charts for little projects on Thursday June 21, 2012 @06:38PM (#4144519)
Thanks, hadn't heard of that one.
Re:Peity - Little charts for little projects on Thursday June 21, 2012 @06:37PM (#4144517)
I tried adding a hook for ExplorerCanvas - http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ - a while back but got inconsistent results - https://github.com/benpickles/peity/issues/7#issuecomment-27...
Re:Peity - Little charts for little projects on Thursday June 21, 2012 @05:44PM (#4144357)
Actually it took a little work to get things crisp on retina displays - https://github.com/benpickles/peity/blob/master/jquery.peity...

I think I got the technique from here - http://joubert.posterous.com/crisp-html-5-canvas-text-on-mob...