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- Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs virtuosimedia.com
Good memory jogger.
- Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com paulcarvill.com
"A [front end developer] is responsible for everything that sits on the client side of the web stack — the content, presentation and behaviour layers. Few other roles touch so many other key aspects of a business as does a [front end developer]’s." Amen to that.
- robhudson/django-debug-toolbar @ GitHub robhudson.github.com
A configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
- PostBin - Debug web hooks postbin.org
Lets you debug web hooks by capturing and logging the asynchronous requests made when events happen. Make a PostBin and register the URL with a web hook provider. All POST requests to the URL are logged for you to see when you browse to that URL.
We are making more of our geological data available in open formats so that they can be used in mashup type applications within software such as Google Earth (please note the terms and conditions of use for Google's and any other software). We hope these services stimulate innovative uses of our data and promote interoperability.
- WebFaction Forum / [HOWTO] Install gitosis. forum.webfaction.com
"Enables you to easily add Microsoft Ajax Library and jQuery scripts to your Web applications" if, horror of horrors, you should need to do something involving MS Ajax.
- High Performance Web Sites :: SpriteMe makes spriting easy stevesouders.com
The bigger challenges when creating sprites are finding the background images and knowing how to group them into sprites. Once the sprite image is created, testing the sprite, including changing all the CSS, is time consuming. SpriteMe addresses all of these challenges.
- Effective A/B Testing elem.com
Very detailed A/B testing presentation.
- Cowboy development with Django at DjangoCon 2009 simonwillison.net
Two case studies of building Django applications irresponsibly on tight deadlines, and some thoughts on more sustainable ways of developing with Django.
- HTML 5: The Markup Language dev.w3.org
Just the meat. "This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents."
- Automating web site deployment at Barcamp Brighton | Morethanseven morethanseven.net
A brief talk about getting started with automating deployment [...] nice and simple and [doesn't] focus on any specific technology or tool – just the general principles and pitfalls of doing anything manually.
Interactive event calendar and personal agenda builder for conferences and festivals.
- HTML5 Super Friends Technical Details zeldman.com
- s4ve.as "file sharing made easy" s4ve.as
Upload any file of any size for free and get back a link good for 24 hours
- Jamal jamal-mvc.com
A set of conventions and small javascript libraries to archieve a complete separation of html, css and javascript in your web application. Jamal is built on jQuery and inspired by MVC frameworks like Ruby on Rails, CakePHP and its derivatives.
- fivesecondtest fivesecondtest.com
A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.
- Image Spark imgspark.com
Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work
Summary: just be consistent, whichever way you go.
- Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator ajaxload.info
But does it do clockwise *and* anti-clockwise loaders? Clients can be funny.
- Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz seomoz.org
Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search ranking factors along with specific questions about hot issues in the SEO field. This document [helps] provide transparency into what matters (and doesn’t) for best practices in search engine optimization.
- Online javascript beautifier jsbeautifier.org
"This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable." Handy for making sense of minified scripts.
- svgweb - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
A JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base. Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in about a 60K library.
- Dive Into HTML 5 diveintohtml5.org
...seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML 5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits.
- John Resig - Eulogy to _why ejohn.org
I tend to see _why more as an artist. He used a wide variety of mediums for his exploration: Written word, drawings, code, and even music.
- Fitted: a jQuery Plugin trovster.com
Turn entire content blocks in to clickable targets.
- Carsonified » The Definitive Guide to GET vs POST carsonified.com
There is a lot misuse of GET over POST and vice versa. Both HTTP methods can achieve the same goals, but an incorrect choice between them can lead to unexpected and potentially harmful outcomes.
- Karsten Luecke Type Foundry kltf.de
@font-face tests. "The same typeface looks very differently on different platforms, and even on the same platform if settings differ."
Under 5 minutes? WOW!
- jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web flowplayer.org
"What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those "web 2.0" goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites." Or perhaps, "what you always get asked to provide, whether you like it or not".
- YouTube - Ad Specs youtube.com
Youtube specs and, more usefully, guidelines for creating a brand channel (in case one should ever be so unlucky to have to do such a thing).
- feedly: a magazine-like start page feedly.com
feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. based on Google Reader and Twitter.
- jQuery slideViewer 1.1 gcmingati.net
Nicely done. "slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML such as an unordered list of images".
- OmniTI ~ YSlow! to YFast! in 45 minutes. omniti.com
While OmniTI has enormous breadth in the Internet space, we are primarily known as an Internet performance and scalability company. This made the fact that we received an F on YSlow! all the more embarrassing. This was a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing — something we evangelize against. I decided that I would fix that and aim to do it by the end of Steve’s presentation. A play-by-play follows.
- Typefaces we can all share : Open Font Library openfontlibrary.fontly.org
- CSS Prism by Ryan Berg cssprism.com
Enter the URL of any CSS file to view and modify its color spectrum
- Fabric — Fabric v0.9 beta 1 documentation docs.fabfile.org
A Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH protocol. It provides tools for running arbitrary shell commands (either as a normal login user, or via sudo), uploading and downloading files, and so forth.
- Agile Testing: Python well represented in NASA's Nebula cloud agiletesting.blogspot.com
The most interesting thing for Python fans will be undoubtedly their selection for the Web application framework. Maybe again unsurprisingly, they chose...Django
- MoD sticks with insecure browser | Kable kable.co.uk
"According to parliamentary written answers received by Labour MP Tom Watson, the majority of departments still require staff to use IE6. Most have plans to upgrade to the more secure IE7, and some to IE8, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has no plans to change." Deary me. Hardly surprising. IE6 still unfortunately a player.
- web-optimizator - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
Does about a billion things to optimize sites. Tempting but not sure how much I'd trust this; feels like a sledgehammer option.
- ioBridge | Remote Control and Monitoring Solutions iobridge.com
"Social networking for your toaster". Heh. A "web platform for remote control and monitoring".