#development (614 links)
In the course of building Plaxo 3.0, which involved an ambitious foray into rich internet application design, Joseph and learned a host of lessons about the importance of performance and the means by which it can be achieved.
- Poster :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.
- #haml.Documentation.Sass haml.hamptoncatlin.com
"Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are use
Separate browsing profile and dev profile... could be confusing.
- Coding Horror: YSlow: Yahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems codinghorror.com
Before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world.
- Bug & Issue Tracking | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
"I decided some time ago that if I was going to build an issue tracker that I’d have to start by creating a simple issue life-cycle and workflow...." Garrett's working on an issue tracker.
- Blueprint: A CSS Framework bjorkoy.com
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
- How do I mantain a mirror of two offline svn repositores? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
...use SVK?
- HomePage - SVK Wiki svk.bestpractical.com
"svk is a decentralized version control system built with the robust Subversion filesystem. It supports repository mirroring, disconnected operation, history-sensitive merging, and integrates with other version control systems, as well as popular visual m
- YSlow for Firebug developer.yahoo.com
"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.
- 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed codesqueeze.com
50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)
- lori (Life-of-request info) :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
'lori' can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Useful for web developers who are working on profiling, optimizing a web site.
- Warehouse — Subversion Browser warehouseapp.com
A Web-based subversion browser that doesn't suck
- Young Technologies Subversion Virtual Machine young-technologies.com
The purpose of this virtual machine is to act as a self-contained subversion server, with a fully configured WebSVN front end.
- css-redundancy-checker - Google Code code.google.com
A simple script that, given a CSS stylesheet and either a .txt file listing URLs of HTML files, or a directory of HTML files, will iterate over them all and list the CSS statements in the stylesheet which are never called in the HTML."
- scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Asshole driven development scottberkun.com
If we’re going to have dozens of models we may as well have some that are honest, however cynical, to what’s really going on much of the time.
- Pingdom Tools tools.pingdom.com
Loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.
- James Shore: Successful Software jamesshore.com
You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization.
- Main Page - Croquet Consortium croquetconsortium.org
"A powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperabl
- blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in blog.pmarca.com
An overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.
- Sleep Overrated sleepoverrated.tumblr.com
Podcast on agile business. [Scott] pulled out some interesting points
- Main Page - Facebook Developers Wiki wiki.developers.facebook.com
A reference for developers interested in the Facebook Platform.
- Versions - Mac Subversion Client versionsapp.com
Versions is the first Mac OS X Subversion client that won't make you long for the command line interface anymore.
- The deployment pipeline - ThoughtWorks Studios studios.thoughtworks.com
In complex enterprise environments the potential for problems doesn't stop at the point at which the code compiles and passes unit tests...
- Wbox HTTP testing tool hping.org
Wbox aims to help you having fun while testing HTTP related stuff.
There is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it is noted in their news stream on their profile. Clicking on the item brings you to the app, where you can add and/or interact with it yourself.
- Facebook Developers developers.facebook.com
Everything you need to get started building a Facebook Application.
With proper PNG support in Internet Explorer 7, and some handy JavaScript and CSS tricks to account for older browsers, we can use PNG images to greatly enhance our design vocabulary.
Maven is a framework for managing various aspects of a project, providing its own conventions and tools to meet this end and acting as glue for making existing disparate tools work in a tractable and orderly manner.
- Capistrano: Automating Application Deployment | manuals.rubyonrails.com
Capistrano is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with Rails. You simply provide Capistrano with a deployment “recipe” that describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically have single-command deployment.
A blind or a keyboard user not being able to learn about the new sports range of a certain brand is less problematic than the same user not being able to do a money transfer or apply for council benefits.
- fValidator - An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation zend.lojcomm.com.br
"An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation." Looks ok, but shame it's Mootools and not jQuery (making it useless for us).
- Mercurial - Mercurial selenic.com
A fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.
- Particletree » Subdomains + Development = Sucks particletree.com
If we could do it all over again, we would have definitely handled our urls and account settings using a Flickr style setup using folders.
- Lessons From Google Mobile - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Some good points about mobile development.
- 14 rules for fast web pages (Skrentablog) skrenta.com
14 rules for faster front end performance
Since this is a technology blog I want to focus on just a couple of technical areas that I’ve been tracking — templating and layout, and some of the issues we’ve had there.
- Capistrano: Home capify.org
A tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines.
- Digital Web Magazine - Markup as a Craft digital-web.com
Nothing new but that's not a criticism; good to have all this in one place!
- 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne radicalbehavior.com
Comments lead into an interesting-ish discussion about scaling problems with RoR.
An offshore software development company based in Eastern Europe.
- Shape Shed - Journal - Default Styles for CSS shapeshed.com
Don't particularly like the methods but always interesting to see what other people do...
At last.fm, all the developers join an irc channel which we use for communications, sharing links, bugs etc.. and into which various system messages are automatically sent via irccat.