Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Framework7 - Full Featured Mobile HTML Framework For Building iOS & Android Apps
Could be useful. (via @paulpod)
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How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you | Anna’s blog
Nice clear description of two ways to view basic Land Registry data about an area. A shame it even takes this much work. And the Ordnance Survey stuff is so locked down. And Land Registry data lookups cost £3.
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Boiling React Down to a Few Lines in jQuery - Hackflow
An explanation of React that my fuzzy head can’t cope with right now. So, for later. (via @simonw)
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Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right
PHP and MySQL thing for hosting your own photo library. Nice, possibly, although I find the demo frustratingly un-web-like. (via Infovore)
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Tryolabs/metamon: Collection of Ansible playbooks to quickly start your Django Application
Another one of these for reference.
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Vega-Lite
An abstraction of an abstraction of d3.js - make D3 charts using only a JSON file. (via FlowingData)
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Unable to set permissions within shared folder using Vagrant and VirtualBox - Ryan Sechrest
Just because this is an example of how I’m spending my time. Every. Single. Step. of the past few weeks has been a stuttering ball-ache of googling for the least bad fix to solve yet another tedious problem.
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Multistage environments with Ansible – Ross Tuck
I don’t need think I need this kind of setup right now, but in case I do in future… (via Infovore)
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Setting up Django with Nginx, Gunicorn, virtualenv, supervisor and PostgreSQL - Michał Karzyński
Nice, clear description. Part two shows how to run multiple Django apps on the Nginx server.
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A Modern Python Development Toolchain · Chris Krycho
Nice clear summary. I’ve never used pyenv but looks like I should. (via Tom Taylor)
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How To Deploy Multiple PHP Applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean
A rare example of deploying multiple sites to one server with Ansible.
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bee-keeper/aws-ansible-django-deployment - Shell
Looks like a good example of Ansible for deploying a Django project on AWS and Vagrant.
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Australian Ruby on Rails developers blog: Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices |
Mainly for the tip about the “Vault Pseudo leaf encryption”.
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6 practices for super smooth Ansible experience by Maxim Chernyak
More Ansible tips. Like him I’ve been a bit frustrated that setting up a Vagrant box feels too different to setting up a real server, when you want them to be as similar as possible.
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Development Environments with Vagrant and Ansible · Daniel Groves
Saving some useful examples. Includes Django too.
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Securing a Server with Ansible · Ryan Eschinger Consulting
Saving some useful examples.
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AMBER
WordPress plugin and Drupal module for saving copies of pages that your site links to, in case they disappear. (via @mathowie)
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h5bp/server-configs-nginx: Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs
Looks like some handy examples.
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Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
I’m finding this (free, online) book very useful; exactly the kind of thing I struggle with how to do better.
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Feature.js
Simple, lightweight alternative to Modernizr. (via Adactio)
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Ghostweather R&D Blog: Teaching a Semester of D3.js
On teaching D3.js to journalism students with no JavaScript experience. I can barely imagine.
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How the Web Works: A Primer for Newcomers to Web Development (or anyone, really) | Preethi Kasireddy
Looks like a good intro to the kinds of things many of us have as a mental model and take for granted. (via Adactio)
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zalew / django-flickr — Bitbucket
“Provides a mechanism to mirror user’s Flickr photos into a Django project.”
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Flask Web Development - O’Reilly Media
This book was really good for helping to structure a slightly larger Flask site than I was previously used to. I’m liking Flask, but it does require piecing together lots of knowledge to sew parts together.
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The best jQuery validation plugin to validate form fields, support Bootstrap, Foundation, Pure, SemanticUI, UIKit frameworks
Despite the annoying information-light front page, this seems really good compared to other JS form validators I’ve used, and worth the money.
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How To Structure Large Flask Applications | DigitalOcean
Always a pleasure to find useful tutorials that step though things clearly and Just Work.
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An Ansible Tutorial - Servers for Hackers
More useful-looking future Ansible reading.
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jcalazan/ansible-django-stack
An Ansible playbook: Django, Postgres, Vagrant, Ubuntu 14.04, tested with DigitalOcean. Promising.
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Easy Django Deployments with Ansible - Technically Voracious
A very simple, apparently, Ansible playbook for deploying a Django site to something like DigitalOcean.
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code like you don’t have the time (tecznotes)
Some good stuff about how to run, maintain and work on projects when the time available is intermittent. I think the bit at the end about “stick to a language’s standard library wherever possible” is important, difficult and perhaps rarely considered.
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Rev Dan Catt - Building shutdownability, closing down Contributoria the nice way.
A nice write-up of a nice way to shut down a website. Lovely to see people doing things this way.
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Who’s On First · Mapzen
On making, basically, a database of places. You don’t need to understand the technical details to get a sense of the huge difficulties in translating these odd human concepts into something more computery. From August 2015. (via @simonw)
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Code highlighting for Keynote presentations
Surprisingly painless and useful. Which isn’t to say entirely painless, but less than expected.
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Host, run, and code Python in the cloud: PythonAnywhere
Free, and upwards, hosting of Python code/sites, with what sound like great facilities for teachers and their classes.
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Sandstorm
*Sounds* like it’s an easier way to do self-hosting (or almost self-hosting) for people who aren’t as technical as that usually requires? Not quite sure. (via Warren Ellis)
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Known: create a single website for all your content
Hosted or self-hosted open source, personal CMS/blog that can send your posts, photos etc to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, SoundCloud, etc. (via Warren Ellis)
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No more accordions: how to choose a form structure | User research
I didn’t link to this when I read it, but it’s stuck with me. It describes changes to GOV.UK’s recommended form structure guidelines, based on user testing.
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WTF, forms?
Some quite nice HTML/CSS form controls, but also nice because of the clear description of how they’ve been made. Mostly coming to Bootstrap v4 soon apparently.
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The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work - Deep Design
For next time I’m trying and failing to remember where I last read an article like this. (via Dotcode)
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geojson.io
Draw on a map, or import geo data files, and get the data out in various other formats. Beautifully simple. (via Tom Taylor)
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Stefan Wrobel - How to make Vagrant performance not suck
I haven’t needed Vagrant to be faster but if/when I do, this seems handy. (via Infovore)
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Skills Matter
Opening July 2015, “CodeNode, our new 23,000 sqft Tech Events and Community venue”. Looks nice, and big. On South Place, just west of Liverpool Street station. That City / “Tech City” border is getting very blurry. (via @tomstuart)
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Open Addresses UK - Alpha : Can We Make Address Entry Work For More Of Us
This, and the previous post that it links to, are a bit interesting about making more usable address inputs. I wished it could have explored more options though.
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PCA Predict, formerly Postcode Anywhere - Address lookup and verification web services
Some people on Twitter recommended this for this kind of thing. Works for international addresses.
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Hotjar – Heatmaps, Visitor Recordings, Conversion Funnels, Form Analytics, Feedback Polls and Proactive Chat in One Platform
Website stats. Uses a sample of visitors, rather than all of them. Some nice features. For future reference. (via Brett Terpstra)
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Coder’s Block Blog / Checkbox Trickery with CSS
Lots of scope for doing this horribly, but some of this CSS-styling of radio buttons and checkboxes is nice for > IE8.
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The God Login
I thought I’d bookmarked this at the time. Some thoughts on making better login forms. I don’t agree with all of it, but good for a starting point for thinking.
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Fontello - icon fonts generator
Create your own icon font using only the icons you need, select from Font Awesome and other free libraries.
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Luster - Mobile Web App Checklist
Loads of good tips for making websites feel more native on touch-based devices.