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08/30/09
Links for August 30th
- Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for JavaScript - A self-hosting Smalltalk compiler written entirely in Javascript.
- ADUni.org: ArsDigita University Curriculum - Lecture notes, course work and (in some cases) videos of the lectures for a web focussed Computer Science course.
- The Value of Web Site Usability Evaluations — Cre8pc Cre8pc Usability & Holistic SEO - Get the most out of your usability consultant by being aware of the options available.
- 20 tips for writing for the web | FatDUX | blogging about user experiences - Tips for producing good web copy.
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Tutorial: scraping and turning a web site into a widget with YQL - Use YQL and Javascript to pull content out of any web page.
- svgweb - Google Code - Support in Internet Explorer for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript.
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08/23/09
Links for August 23rd
- Kirk's Rants: Software Developers Should Never Have Dress Codes - Analysis of the real reason behind corporate dress codes.
- HTML5 Microdata JavaScript - Gitorious - A Javascript implementation of the HTML5 Microdata DOM API.
- Software is hard | Extending Prism - Extension development differences for Mozilla Prism.
- Software is hard | nsITraceableChannel, Intercept HTTP Traffic - Intercept HTTP requests from within a Firefox Extension.
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08/16/09
Links for August 16th
- Rands In Repose: The Book Stalker - The love of books as an antidote to Web 2.0 fueled, attention limited, Twitter driven relationship.
- Blind Search - Compare search engine results without being influenced by branding.
- Accessibility Color Wheel - Pick foreground and background colour combinations which meet the WCAG 2.0 accessibility guidelines.
- The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don’ts | Noupe - Easy guide to common .htaccess tricks.
- CSS Layout - 100% height - Single column layout that is always at least 100% of the viewport height but will push the gooter down as the content gets longer.
- css-template-layout - Project Hosting on Google Code - An implementation, using Javascript, of the CSS3 Template Layout module.
- Firefox Extension Development Tutorial :: Preferences - Create and use settings from within a Firefox extension with the Preferences Service.
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08/09/09
Links for August 9th
- How long is it going to take? - Accurately estimate the length of any project, no matter how many lines of code are required and what developer and soft drink machine resources you have available.
- Text Rotation with CSS - Perform element rotation using CSS even with IE6
- ZURB – Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA - Nice 3D effect buttons using CSS3 features.
- Screenjelly - What's on your screen? - Record a short screencast and share it with the world.
- Open Source - Dimdim: Web conferencing for everyone. Dimdim provides free, open source collaboration for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, education, unified collaboration, webinar, web meetings and more. Available in free hosted or GPLv3 do... - An Open Source alternative to tools like WebEx and GoToMeeting.
- HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5 – 0xDECAFBAD - On overview of and introduction to the HTML5 drag and drop API.
- How I Explained REST to My Wife - A straightforward introduction to REST presented as a dialogue (warning: may not work on real world wives).
- Web fonts. Where are we? Will web fonts ever be a reality? | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog - On overview of the various standards efforts to provide fonts which can be downloaded into web browsers while still allowing font foundries to make a living.
- Why I am Not a Professor - The decline of the British university system.
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08/02/09
Links for August 2nd
- WPS: PostScript for the Web - A postscript interpreter implemented using javascript and the HTML5 Canvas API.
- CSS Colors: Take Control Using PHP - Use PHP to generate your CSS, which allows a number of refinements - variable names for colour schemes and automatic generation of palettes from base colours.
- Color Palette Generator - Generate a colour palette from any image, gives two sets of colours - 'dull' and 'vibrant'.
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07/26/09
Links for July 26th
- CSS Colors: Take Control Using PHP -
- Color Palette Generator - Generate a colour palette from any image, gives two sets of colours - 'dull' and 'vibrant'.
- lilyapp - Project Hosting on Google Code - Lily enables users to build programs graphically by connecting functional modules to fetch and direct the flow of data, play sound or video, add interactivity or display results. Lily programs can be shared with other Lily users, installed as Firefox add-ons, run as standalone apps using XULrunner, or (with some limitations) be embedded in a web page.
- A Community-driven Proposal for Developing HTML5 - Manifesto for changing the HTML5 standardisation process.
- A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable - Is it time to give up the idea that all web documents should be HTML documents and so constrained by HTML semantics?
- A List Apart: Articles: The Inclusion Principle - Create accessible websites through the inclusion principal.
- Web 2.0 how-to design style guide - Scratchmedia London web designers - Analysis and tips on the essential elements of the "Web 2.0" style.
- html5-now - Google Code - Dean Edward's library to add HTML5 support to non-compliant browsers.
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07/19/09
Links for July 19th
- What's Wrong With Copy Protection - An excellent essay on why allowing corporations to limit our freedoms through technology is a bad thing.
- Activating Browser Modes with Doctype - A complete reference to compatibility modes and doctype declarations across all the major browsers.
- Recess PHP Framework - A RESTful PHP Framework.
- Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA - Opera Developer Community -
- perfection kills » Blog Archive » How well do you know prototype (part II) - Example code for common uses of Prototype.js.
- Guidelines -- Web Writing that Works - Guidelines for writing clear and readable web content including a section on reducing cognitive burdens which is important for communicating to readers with learning disabilities.
- A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa II - Second in an introductory series on RDFa from Mark Birkbeck.
- FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts - Online font creation tool, download as TTF.
- Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer! - Transform a sample of your handwriting into a font - how beneficial this will be may depend on how readable your handwriting is...
- Baseline Rhythm Calculator - Calculates font sizes and line heights for all main elements from a base font size that can be copied into your stylesheet.
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07/12/09
Links for July 12th
- A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa II - Second in an introductory series on RDFa from Mark Birkbeck.
- FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts - Online font creation tool, download as TTF.
- Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer! - Transform a sample of your handwriting into a font - how beneficial this will be may depend on how readable your handwriting is...
- Baseline Rhythm Calculator - Calculates font sizes and line heights for all main elements from a base font size that can be copied into your stylesheet.
- gae-json-rest - Google Code - Library and sample code for a REST style JSON interface for Google App Engine.
- HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using - Nettuts+ - Tutorial describing how to style a blog using new features in HTML5 and CSS3.
- BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Glow JavaScript library open source release - More details on the release of the Glow Javascript Library.
- BBC - Glow JavaScript Library - Javascript library and widget set with wide browser compatibility.
- Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems Administration and Infrastructure Architecture: Chaos - Discussion of management practices which lead to problems and manifesto for better system administration.
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Read Our Magazines - New, free magazine from Pragmatic Bookshelf: "Our aim is to create a real 21st century version of that oh-so-last-century medium, the magazine. Since nobody, least of all us, knows what that actually means, we’ll be iterating (a.k.a. “making it up”) as we go along."
- Category:OWASP Guide Project - OWASP - Comprehensive advice for building secure websites with J2EE, ASP.NET, and PHP code samples.
- Hacker News | Your Résumé Won't Get You Hired - Cover letter tips, including whether or not you should bother writing one.
- HTML5 Drag and drop demonstration - HTML5 drag and drop in action, working in Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and IE8.
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07/05/09
Links for July 5th
- HTML5 Drum Kit | RandomThink Labs -
- appscale - Google Code - Open source but compatible alternative to Google AppEngine.
- html5doctor, helping you implement html5 today - Community site for web designers and developers aiming to improve the standard of knowledge about HTML5.
- HTML5 Web Storage and SQL at Vladimir Vukićević -
- Persevere - SitePen, Inc. - A database designed for use in a distributed/cloud environment via a REST/JSON interface.
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06/28/09
Links for June 28th
- Implement Web cut-and-paste using Atom XML and Firefox XUL - Create a web clipboard using a server side XML database and a Firefox extension.
- CSS Creator Playing with CSS3 - Demo page of several CSS rules which are candidates for inclusion in CSS 3.0
- CSS text-shadow Fun: Realtime Lighting Demo - zachstronaut - Another fun use of CSS 3.0 text-shadow.
- Exploring CSS text-shadow Property - zachstronaut - Fun uses of CSS 3.0 text-shadow.
- Keryx (X)HTML Elements Best Practice Sheet - An exhaustive reference of elements by HTML version along with usage notes
- Google Code Blog: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Suggestions for Better Performance - Improving performance of offline web applications
- The Google Code Blog: Gmail for mobile HTML5 Series - Part 3: Using AppCache to Launch Offline - HTML 5 offline applications tutorial, part 3 - working with the cache during development
- The Google Code Blog: Gmail for mobile HTML5 Series - Part 2: Using AppCache to Launch Offline - HTML 5 offline applications tutorial, part 2 - versioning and determining file status
- The Google Code Blog: Gmail for mobile HTML5 Series: Using AppCache to Launch Offline - Part 1 - HTML 5 offline applications tutorial, part 1 - the application manifest
- emastic - Google Code - CSS grid framework for elastic and fluid layouts using em units
- A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa - An introduction to RDFa from Mark Birkbeck
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06/21/09
Links for June 21st
- Get ready for Firefox 3.0 - IBM developerWorks extension of the Finkle tutorial on offline web applications in Firefox
- Mark Finkle’s Weblog » Firefox 3 – Offline App Demo – Part 2 - Tutorial/example of offline web applications in Firefox.
- Offline resources in Firefox - MDC - Mozilla developer documentation for offline web applications in Firefox
- Interface Hall of Shame - Dated but comprehensive guide to UI usability mistakes.
- Information is a task: Gerry McGovern - Information, by itself, is not useful, unless it helps you achieve something.
- W3C XSLT Servlet - Online XSLT service
- Why No More 9/11s? (consolidated version for printout) - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine - Found in Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM: "I don't know how I missed this great series from Slate in February. It's eight essays exploring why there have been no follow-on terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11 (not counting the anthrax mailings, I guess)"
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- Library for history and session handling in Ajax applications, might be interesting to combine this with Gears/HTML5 Storage.
- Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions - Blog - Small Business Start Up - Ideas - Resources - By not trying to be a big company you can be more successful than many who are trying to be big.
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