#development (614 links)
- scraplab : instant sinatra deployment with heroku scraplab.net
- Cappuccino is not designed for building web sites,... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind micro.ben-ward.co.uk
When I hear a friend talking about learning Cappucino I react as if they’ve been tricked out of their money by a con-artist on a street corner. I think they’ve been conned out of true knowledge, duped down the wrong path. “Don’t be like those schmucks learning HTML! Just take these magic beans!”.
- iui - Google Code code.google.com
User Interface (UI) Library for Safari development on iPhone
- BBC - Radio Labs - How we make websites bbc.co.uk
For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.
One key real-world benefit of this separation is that come redesign time, one only needs to change or replace the CSS stylesheet, and needn’t lay so much as a finger upon the hallowed grounds we call markup. I’m here to say that this mantra isn’t much more than a fairy tale.
- Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. « Timothy Fitz timothyfitz.wordpress.com
"The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests. If the tests pass deploy to the cluster. If the deploy succeeds, repeat." Blimey.
Enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for ASP.NET Web Forms
- Model View Presenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
A software pattern considered a derivative of the Model-view-controller
Interesting rant about microformats.
- IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 blogs.msdn.com
Old, but I keep misplacing this link. "We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously."
I hate myself for marking this. "ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0."
Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X.
"Allows you to use TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server. It converts the calls made by your Subversion client to the API supported by TFS." I really hope I don't have to use this.
- CSS Browser Selector rafael.adm.br
Wrong but potentially useful as last resort. "CSS Browser Selector is a very small javascript with just one line which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser."
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).
- My Git Workflow gweezlebur.com
Workflow tips. "The thing that’s hard about Git for most people is the same thing that’s hard about all DVCS tools: if you’re used to centralized systems, they work weird [...] It’s also really easy to never grok DVCS, so when something unusual happens, you don’t know how to fix it."
- whitehouse.gov Website Code dotnetperls.com
You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET
- ZigZig Software - ZigVersion zigversion.com
Another mac svn client. This one looks like it might be quite good.
- 12 resources for getting a jump on HTML 5 ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
- How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq. metabrew.com
Good to see a bit more info on this. Experimented with irccat after seeing it mentioned at FOWA a couple of years ago but had trouble getting the dynamics right for a multi-project model.
- The Open Stack: An Introduction (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) developer.yahoo.net
"The "Open Stack" refers to a set of technologies that work together to make it easier for web developers and users to manage access to user data across the Web."
- Hublog: Getting a visitor's location (city) hublog.hubmed.org
Who knew that "Javascript, IP address-based lookup" had got so simple?
Hurrah, 24 ways is back.
- An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
- TeamCity :: Powerful Continuous Integration Server jetbrains.com
A powerful build management and continuous integration server supporting both Java and .NET teams.
- UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier htmlpurifier.org
- django-reversion - Google Code code.google.com
Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.
- Announcing dmigrations simonwillison.net
dmigrations is a Django migrations tool. It addresses a common problem in Django development: if you change a model after creating the database tables for it with syncdb, how do you reflect those changes in your database tables without blowing away your existing data and starting again from scratch?
- Sequel Pro – MySQL database management app for Mac OS X mjmedia.com.au
MySQL database management app for Mac OS X 10.5
- Build Workflow Powered Applications Without Coding geticeberg.com
- Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way thomas.broxrost.com
This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,
- Yospace SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition yospace.com
"Support for XHTML-MP, i-mode and 3G devices" but £299 plus VAT. Ouch.
- Android Developers Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK android-developers.blogspot.com
The beta SDK that we're releasing today is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0. Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes.
- just paying the bills - a web studio justpayingthebills.com
An experimental web development and design studio.
- minidetector - Google Code code.google.com
"A simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a ".mobile" attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles."
- Aeracode :: South aeracode.org
Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
- Ciarán Walsh’s Blog » TextMate Plug-in: ProjectPlus ciaranwal.sh
Looks like an excellent TextMate plugin. Thanks, Tom!
- Git for the lazy - Spheriki spheredev.org
git is a distributed version control system. No, you don't need to know what that means to use this guide. Think of it as a time machine: Subversion or CVS without the suck.
- django-assets - Google Code code.google.com