Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac
“The most powerful Git client for Mac.” Looks good I think. Might be less scary for doing some out-of-the-ordinary things. (via Lee)
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LukeW | “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
Redesigning a form to a “Mad Libs”, sentence style increased conversion 25-40%.
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Perch - A really little content management system (CMS)
I’ll forget what this is called if I need to find it again. Sounds like it could be handy, and a shiny blue and pink site always makes things seem even nicer. (via Mildlydiverting)
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Coderholic’s django-cities at master - GitHub
Models, with data from GeoNames, for countries, regions, cities and districts, for Django. Haven’t used it yet, but looks very useful.
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How do I force Python to be 32-bit on Snow Leopard and other 32-bit/64-bit questions - Stack Overflow
The post from “cogg” about virtualenv saved my sanity. Thanks cogg.
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The OS X Spatial Stack :: Drive-by Digressions
Looks very handy, if my OS X system wasn’t already a complete mess of historic and forgotten installs of various things.
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Google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code
Looks very nice - an interface to sort, search, cluster, refine, and generally tidy up large datasets. (via Waxy)
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Annotator | Open Knowledge Foundation
Looks good. jQuery and python (or other backend) for annotating HTML pages. (via Infovore)
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How do sites prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features? - Quora
Just for the list of suggested blacklist terms that shouldn’t be allowed for usernames, so as to avoid future URL conflicts.
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JQuery Cycle Plugin
Another nice, fancy slideshow thing. (via Infovore)
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100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition - Smashing Magazine
Always handy and plenty look usable. (via Yoz)
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Django-messages - Project Hosting on Google Code
App for allowing the sending of private messages between users of a site. Looks good at first glance.
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Nathansearles’s Faded at master - GitHub
“A super simple fading image and content viewer for jQuery” Looks good. (via Infovore)
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Izi / django-admin-tools / wiki / Home – Bitbucket
Another way of making Django’s admin nicer.
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Django-grappelli - Project Hosting on Google Code
Skin for making Django admin look nicer.
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HTML Purifier - Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way!
PHP library for whitelisting certain HTML, protecting against XSS, etc. (via @simonw)
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Agiliq’s django-blogango at master - GitHub
Another Django blogging engine.
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Backbone.js
What looks like a lovely way to structure large JavaScript projects into an MVC structure. (via Simon Willison)
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Git ready » learn git one commit at a time
Very handy collection of git tips. Enough information to make sense, not too much to confuse.
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Hacker News | I’m done building Facebook apps for clients
More people discussing the frustrations of developing for Facebook.
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I’m done building Facebook apps for clients | Ryan Waggoner
Yes, this. I’ve only done Facebook Connect stuff, not built actual FB apps, but, it’s unpleasant and frustrating. Stick to the Web.
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Snoopy | View-source bookmarklet for iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices
Very handy. Also rather nice on desktop browsers too. (via Tim Brayshaw)
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Dcramer’s django-sentry at master - GitHub
Looks nice, haven’t used it. “Sentry provides you with a generic interface to view and interact with your [Django] error logs.”
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Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
Handy sometime I expect. Standardised icons for services, in four sizes.
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What’s the best way to structure large JavaScript/jQuery projects? - Quora
I asked a question on Quora and had some helpful responses.
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Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth | maSnun’s logs
Least baffling description I’ve read. Phew. (via Infovore)
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Alex’s django-taggit at master - GitHub
Hopefully more reliable than whatever that other django tagging app I used a while ago was.
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I have tried to be happy with django, I really have. : django
I’m finding this quite reasoned discussion about what’s good/bad about Django really interesting.
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HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
Even if you don’t use the whole thing, it’s a nice collection of handy little JavaScript/CSS/.htaccess techniques in one place.
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My Large Google Maps tool
Not pretty, but handy for drawing polylines and shapes on Google Maps and getting the coordinates.
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Django via fastCGI on Lighttpd | App Delegate Inc
This description of how to set it up sounds comprehensible.
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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source « Paul Irish
I generally dislike screencasts — seems like an inefficient way to deliver information about code — but this was pretty good.
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WebFaction : Hosts : Djangofriendly
Sounds like a really good place to go for hosting Django websites. (Shame about the comment spam on the Djangofriendly site though.)
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Panic Blog » Coda Notes for Safari: Now Available!
That is very, very nicely done. And useful. (via Daring Fireball)
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The return of Expect: 100-continue « gnegg
I was sending data via a big POST request using PHP’s curl and getting nothing back. I had to do this to fix it. (Wake up at the back!)
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Fantomas42’s django-blog-zinnia at master - GitHub
Another Django weblog application.
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HM Government - Petition to: encourage government departments to upgrade away from Internet Explorer 6
Oh dear. (via @tom_watson)
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Ariel Flesler: jQuery.ScrollTo
This is very lovely: super easy to automatically scroll the window to a specific point, a DOM element, a selector… easily adjustable.
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JavaScript Compressor and Comparison Tool
Paste some JavaScript in and get it compressed by various compressors.
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Ben Alman » jQuery Misc plugins - jQuery queueFn
“Execute any jQuery method or arbitrary function in the animation queue.” Handy, and I keep forgetting where to find it. (via Simon Willison a while back)
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Git Reference
Ooh, blimey, an actually useful and readable and understandable concise guide to Git. Phew.
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Django Advent
Finally finished reading this. Are there other sites that have this kind of writing about Django regularly?
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Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer
Looks good, configurable, etc. And I’m a sucker for that nice zoomy action.
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How to build a web widget (using jQuery) - Alex Marandon
Good, clearly written, tutorial on writing a widget that will be included on third party websites. (via Dotcode)
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CSS3 Transition - iPhoneWebDev | Google Groups
Occasionally useful thread from 2009 about CSS3 transitions, hardware acceleration, etc on iPhones
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Introduction - iui - iUI Introduction Wiki Page. - Project Hosting on Google Code
A JavaScript/CSS framework thing for making web apps on iPhones etc. Haven’t looked into it yet.
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Charles leifer | Using virtualenv, pip and django-site-gen to quickly start new Django projects
Another article about setting up and managing Django projects.
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Python Package Index : Mezzanine 0.2.2
“A content management platform built using the Django framework” and with a nice WordPress-style admin interface.
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The arrow of WordPress time « Jon Udell
On trying to do something a little Pepys’ Diary-esque using a standard WordPress.com site.