Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
The kind of thing I keep meaning to read up on. (via Kottke)
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Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
Very handy alternative to Submit buttons, and I feel I should have already known this, but it appears to have problems in IE. Like most things. (via Kottke)
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Living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
One-click install of Apache, MySQL, PHP for running sites locally on your Mac without all the httpd.conf etc malarkey.
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MTV Labs: The New HTML MTV.com
MTV.com has ditched its Flash site for an HTML version after user feedback. (via Blackbeltjones over Twitter)
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Launch (Ftrain.com)
Paul Ford, excellent on the inevitable public responses to a site launch and one’s reaction to them.
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What do you do when your success … sucks? (Skrentablog)
A look at how Topix worked out why the site didn’t work and what they did about it. (via Haddock)
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Kelvinluck.com: jQuery date picker
I’ve been dabbling with jQuery and this plugin makes doing just what I wanted as easy as it could be.
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Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure
Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
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Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks
Because I’m always using losing this and having to Google for it or something similar.
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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine
Handy to have so many in one place. (via Daring Fireball)
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Zf-twitter - Google Code
Tim’s PHP class for reading Twitter data. Uses the Zend Framework.
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Running Movable Type 3.3 with LightTPD and FastCGI (Tapirtype Blog)
Detailed instructions for doing this on TextDrive hosting.
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Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
“Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.”
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Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot
Not very complicated, but a good idea and a nicely done demo. (via ChrisDodo)
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Simon Willison: Graphing requests with Tamper Data
Very nice thing found by Simon - a graph showing when elements of a webpage load, and how long they take. (via Daring Fireball)
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Make.text
Bookmarklet to convert a web page into Markdown syntax (which I’ve started to use almost everywhere). Could be handy. (via Daring Fireball)
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SimpleXML processing with PHP
Nice clear explanation and examples (for PHP5). Will be handy sometime I’m sure. If only it was as simple in PHP4. (via Daring Fireball)
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Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
What the title says. Very handy. (via Rodcorp)
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Piecing IT together » Blog Archive » Why Calendars are hard
In the unlikely event I need a summary of why it’s difficult to code decent calendaring. (via Blech)
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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML
Why you (and I) should probably be using HTML 4 rather than XHTML. Oops. (via Daring Fireball)
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Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones
If you’ve installed several versions of Internet Explorer in Windows XP, here’s how to make them work better.
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Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
How to make your own clickmap thing using Javascript, Ruby, ImageMagick. (via Kottke)
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Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture
Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven’t tried it).
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Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site
$30, looks lovely, but can’t be installed or administered using Win IE. Doh.
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Digerati Consulting: awstats on TextDrive
How to install AWStats on a TextDrive server. Actually worked.
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Peastat
“Peastat is a simple, free, ‘live’ web stats analyser.”
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Changes to the Movable Type Platform for v3.3 (Movable Type Documentation)
For when I get round to upgrading.
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Movable Type Beta Weblog - Converting from dirified title to basename
Because I keep losing this article and need it occasionally.
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SIMILE | Timeline | Documentation
DHTML thing for creating nice scrollable timelines. (via Yoz)
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Web Development with… Safari : journal : hicksdesign Ο°
If you download a WebKit nightly build there’s a handy inspector for debugging CSS problems in Safari.
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Vitamin Features » HTML Emails - Taming the Beast
For future reference. Although I really hope I never ever need it (via Plasticbag).
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Amazon.co.uk: Building Scalable Web Sites: Books
Cal has a book out! Sounds interesting and very useful.
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AMK design | Last 10 tracks on your website
Simple but good PHP code for putting your Last.fm recent tracks on your site. Inspired me to rewrite all my stupidly over-engineered code for gyford.com along the same lines. (via Kottke)
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ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox
Another colour scheme generator. I need all the help I can get.
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Color Scheme Generator 2
There are loads of these around, but this seems a nice example.
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Mod_rewrite Cookbook - FrontPage
Very handy resource for mod_rewrite recipes. It’s like some arcane magic to me.
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Aplus :: z-pos
Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
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Quick guide to somewhat advanced JavaScript
Helping me brush up my entrenched Web 1.0 JavaScript skills.
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SortedTable example
Dynamically sorted and rearranged HTML tables using Javascript.
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Yahoo open up their UI libraries… (plasticbag.org)
Links to all Yahoo’s shiny developer things in one handy place for me to never get round to reading.
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dBug
Very handy PHP class for displaying easily comprehensible variable information. Has no doubt been referred to as “var_dump on steroids” by someone. (via Tim/twisty)
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Particletree · Quick Guide to Prototype
Another guide to using the Javascript library. One day I’ll use it rather than just post links to documentation. (via Tom Carden)
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Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time
Some of the most commonly repeated functions. (via Tim/twisty)
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Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications
Library for Ajaxy drag-and-drop type stuff, extending prototype.js. (via Tim/twisty)
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O2b.net » Seedmagazine.com — Lookin’ Good
On using Movable Type as a CMS for Seed magazine’s website. Mainly because I need the four MT plug-ins mentioned and I’ll forget their names otherwise. (via Kottke)
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Using prototype.js v1.3.1
Unofficial documentation for the Prototype Javascript library. (via Tim)
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PHP5 Exception Use Guidelines
Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.
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Ludoo » PHP 101 - PEAR error handling
Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.
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Notes on PEAR_Exception - phly, boy, phly
Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.