Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Jezdez/django_compressor - GitHub
“Combines and compresses linked and inline Javascript or CSS in a Django templates into cacheable static files by using the compress template tag.” Can work with Sass CSS I believe.
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Compass Home | Compass Documentation
“An open-source CSS Authoring Framework” which uses Sass. There’s always more to learn.
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Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
“Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more.” Compiles sass files into CSS files.
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Xdissent/ievms - GitHub
“Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines.” So you can test web stuff in IE on your Mac. (via Tom Taylor)
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Golden Grid System
This looks very nice. Making a stretchable grid for web pages, that changes the number of columns depending on the page width. I want to play with this. (via Waxy)
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Rentzsch.tumblr.com: HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
A couple of things for future reference. (via Daring Fireball)
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Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby - Hyperpolyglot
Handy comparison of features of Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby, for when my brain has trouble switching. (via Kottke)
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Chosen - a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype - makes select boxes better
That’s a lovely, nicely done thing. (via Infovore)
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Pelme/django-compress - GitHub
Looks good: a tool for automatically (or only when asked) compressing and combining CSS and JavaScript files used on a Django project.
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Carbonmade : Your online portfolio.
Quite fun looking, free portfolio websites.
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Django Authentication using an Email Address
I’ve read a lot of half-thought-through explanations for how to let users of a Django site log in with email address rather than username. This seems to be the only one that covers all the bases. Still, it shouldn’t be this hard.
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Comment Challenge plugin
Apparently is (still) effective at stopping Movable Type comment spam. I feel like I’ve gone back in time several years.
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Resetting Your South Migrations
I was thinking of doing this after a lot of solo early development on a Django project.
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How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs - 10,000 Words
Describing how the ‘Bangor Daily News’ (Maine, USA) uses Google Docs and WordPress to publish its website and then send the text to InDesign for laying out the print paper. Includes a list of WP plugins used. (via @benhammersley)
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UseTheSource | Newest Jobs
John Graham-Cumming’s tech job board for Hacker News folk, the name of which I’ll never remember, hence bookmarking it here.
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Html2text: THE ASCIINATOR (aka html2txt)
Turns a web page into Markdown-formatted ASCII. (via Preoccupations)
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Kindle typography
Going to some lengths to make Kindle typography better using JavaScript and CSS.
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Difference between geo and coordinates in status - Twitter Development Talk | Google Groups
Coordinates vs geo vs place in the Twitter API. It’s not good when you have to read email threads to work out how to use a company’s API.
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RequireJS
To help with modularising JavaScript, loading bits asynchronously, managing dependencies, etc. Looks indispensable for large JS projects.
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JavaScript Garden
A good run-through of some of JavaScript’s tricky bits, a lot like Crockford’s ‘JavaScript: The Good Parts’. I still don’t get prototypes etc though. (via Cal)
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DataMapper ORM - User Guide
There seem to be several past versions of this; I think this is the current one. Looks like just what I needed to fill the gaps in CodeIgniter that always left me frustrated with it.
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Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style | Foursquare Engineering Blog
Nice description of how Foursquare developed their tool for recommending places to you in Foursquare v3. (via Tom Taylor)
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Balsamiq
Very nice-seeming Flash-based tool for creating mockups of UIs, userflows, etc.
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Performance Calendar » PNG that works
Everything you need to know about PNGs on the web in one handy, well-explained page. (via Dotcode)
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Use Django and jQuery to create a spreadsheet application
That’s a more interesting guide/demo than “how to make a weblog”. (via Django Weekly)
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Encrypting Passwords with PHP for Storage Using the RSA PBKDF2 Standard
This was also useful. Yes, it’s a thrilling day!
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PHP Encryption / Decryption Using the MCrypt Library (libmcrypt)
This was super useful.
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PHP mcrypt in Snow Leopard with Homebrew
I’m increasingly finding descriptions of how to do this kind of vaguely impenetrable techy thing which Just Work. Lovely.
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AJAX with CSRF Protection in Codeigniter 2.0 | AYM Systems
This was handy.
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Pattern, a Python module for mining web data
Lovely looking module for grabbing data from a variety of web sources, analysing it, and displaying results in different ways. (via Waxy)
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Dancarroll / django-activitysync / source – Bitbucket
Django app for aggregating activity from different services, currently Twitter, Google Reader and Reddit.
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Virtualenv and pip Basics | Jontourage
Nothing I didn’t already know, but explained simply and clearly, which will be handy if I have to describe this stuff to anyone else.
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Programming Amazon EC2 - O’Reilly Media
This book’s just come out. Anyone read it? Any good? Any other recommendations for getting up to speed with hosting on AWS? Ta.
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A List Apart: Articles: A Simpler Page
A bit about the problems of formatting long-form stuff for different screens, and then his solution, Bibiotype, an HTML/CSS/JS template, which is really gorgeous.
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Testing Multiple Versions of IE on One PC - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Run IE 6, 7, 8 and 9 on one machine by running Windows XP within Windows 7. (via Mildlydiverting)
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How did WordPress win?
Byrne Reese, ex of Six Apart, on why WP has won out over Movable Type. A shame, but then I always start new blog projects in WP these days. (via Waxy)
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Isotope
Blimey, that’s a whizzy bit of jQuery for rearranging things on a page. I’m expecting to see a whole lot of that soon. (via Daring Fireball)
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Tank Auth authentication library for CodeIgniter
It’s been a while since I looked at CodeIgniter. Still no really obvious winner to the “how do I just authenticate people dammit?” question, but this looks like a front-runner.
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A (Complete) Guide to Running Django on Joyent Shared Accelerators using Virtualenv, pip, git, and NginX | ecarmi.org
Brilliant. I’ve been waiting a long, long time for instructions like this.
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Little Big Details
Examples of nice little UI touches. Some a bit obvious but others that are lovely. (via @paulpod)
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Implementing a Fixed Position iOS Web Application - Google Mobile Developer Products - Google Code
Brilliant: how to (a) make page elements fixed on iOS Safari (which doesn’t acknowledge position:fixed, grrrr) and (b) do scrolling with momentum. Gmail in iOS Safari is very swish.
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iPad View Source Bookmarklet - Ravelrumba
What it says. Could be handy. (via Daring Fireball)
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From zero to coder hero: Synchronizing django with twitter using django-syncr
How to fix the out-of-date django-syncr to work with Twitter’s OAuth.
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Danfairs/django-syncr at danfairs - GitHub
What looks like the most active copy of django-syncr around. Dan’s adding stuff to the ‘danfairs’ branch.
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Django-syncr - Project Hosting on Google Code
The “official” django-syncr source, but not updated since December 2008.
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Django-syncr: Synchronize Django with the web | JesseLegg.com
Introduction to django-syncr, which grabs Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, etc stuff from your accounts to your own Django-powered website.
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Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You: MicroISV on a Shoestring
Handy description of git and staging/production environments and workflow. In like reading how other people do things. (via mildlydiverting)
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URL Design — Warpspire
Tips for designing URLs, most of which seems like common sense to me, but also some tips re HTML5 Javascript shenanigans. (via Simon Willison)
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Coding Horror: So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
Things you should do when sending email via code. (via Daring Fireball)
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Kohana: The Swift PHP Framework
I hadn’t even heard of this before, a PHP framework that originally came from CodeIgniter, now quite different. Sounds good, although the docs don’t look as good as CI’s.