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An alternative 'for' loop using XSLT and template callbacks

XSLT 1.0 has no native way of achieving a for loop, without iterating through XML. Until now.

Bekonscot.co.uk redesigned

Pixel pushing, CSS, and XSLT content management. All in a day's work. Can I sleep now?

Cross-browser drop shadows using pure CSS

Look ma, no images!

Show latest Last.fm plays on your Symphony site

Symphony has a hunger for XML. Thankfully Last.fm's API shares this appetite.

Hanging Out With Humans

Data.Select.Party are a party-math-indie quartet from London. And this is their album.

Developing with Symphony using the Firebug console

Symphony provides powerful debugging and performance profiling pages by appending various URL parameters to pages. No longer. Firebug is all you need.

New Symphony CMS website

The new website dropped this morning. Check it out.

Symphony as a data preservation utility

With the recent disappearance of Magnolia there has been renewed talk of archiving data from third party sites into a structured repository. Symphony might hold the answer.

Don't make me choose — I don't care

Smart defaults prevent a user from making unnecessary decisions.

Elastic usability

While frantically finishing my Christmas shopping; I had an odd turn. Amazon hadn't removed their search box, had they?

Archiving XML with Symphony

Symphony is an incredibly powerful CMS, but it's ability to cache dynamic XML feeds is lacking. In this article I explain a simple method of parsing a third-party XML feed and archiving its contents in native Symphony sections.

Focus on — Accessibility

WCAG 1.0 provides authors and developers with useful guidelines to follow to improve content accessibility; but following these rigidly can, on occasion, have the opposite effect.

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  2. The All New Adventures Of Us — St. Crispin's Got Our Backs

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  7. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas — Nowhere To Run

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  8. The Hat — 3am (Drunken Lullaby)

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    4. The Felice Brothers — Penn Station

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    5. Third Eye Blind — The Red Summer Sun

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    6. Oasis — (Instrumental)

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    7. John Mayer — John Mayer - Gone (Nsync Cover live

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    8. Slowcoaster — Professional Secretary

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    9. Gatsby's American Dream — Looks Like The Real Thing

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    2. Ed Harcourt — This One's For You

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    3. Oasis — The Hindu Times

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    4. White Lies — Unfinished Business

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    5. Jurassic 5 — Sum Of Us

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    6. Gotye — Düosseüdo - Hearts A Mess (Remix)

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    7. Ben Folds — The Ascent of Stan

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    8. Phoenix — (You Can't Blame It On) Anybody

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    9. Gang Starr — Code Of The Streets

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  15. The Wannadies — Ball

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  16. Cartel — Matter of Time

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  17. Lostprophets — Everyday Combat

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    2. Jamie Cullum — Well You Needn't

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    3. Thomas Newman — April

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    4. Oasis — Soldier On

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    5. Autopilot Off — Voice In The Dark

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    6. Air — Remember

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  18. The Futureheads — Yes/No

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  19. Or, The Whale — Shasta

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  20. Frank Turner — The Real Damage

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  23. The Hoosiers — Worst Case Scenario

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  27. The Electric Soft Parade — Empty at the End

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  29. Oasis — The Girl in the Dirty Shirt

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    3. The Cribs — Another Number

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    4. The Aliens — The Happy Song

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    5. Fleet Foxes — Blue Spotted Tail

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    6. Delays — Satellites Lost

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    12. Grandaddy — He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot

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