Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design
Good description of making more flexible, multi-device HTML/CSS structures. For those of you not caring about IE support.
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TouchScroll, a scrolling layer for WebKit mobile [update] « Uxebu.com – the Ajax and JavaScript Experts
Re-implementing scrolling for WebKit Mobile web browsers. Haven’t looked at the code yet, but the demo seems good.
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Mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
Some handy tips, although some assume you’re building a website *only* for the iPad, and don’t need to worry about other platforms.
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Dealinium - jSlideTouch for Ipad & Iphone/Ipod using jQuery for content sliding
Sliding content in a fixed-size element left/right or up/down on web pages on iPhone, iPad etc.
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iScroll | Matteo Spinelli’s Cubiq.org
A way to do scrolling content in a webpage in a fixed size element on iPhone. eg, lists of things.
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Rabble.rule: Detecting a swipe in WebKit
Handy Javascript for using gestures on websites for the iPhone/iPad etc. (via Haddock)
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HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript
Nice, clear, simple summary of making websites work more like apps when viewed on iPhone/iPad.
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ImageOptim – a PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X
Good. To get my PNGs to be the same colour as CSS backgrounds in FF/IE I had to use the PNGCrush optimiser to remove gAMA, sRGB, ICCP and cHRM. Now you know.
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HTML5 Readiness
Handy (HTML5/CSS3) diagram of which HTML5/CSS3 features are in which browsers. (Upshot: I can’t use any of it yet for production sites.) (via Daring Fireball)
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Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest
Fun and interesting. (via Haddock)
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Zachary Voase’s Blog » Django Project Conventions, Revisited.
Clear and (to my naive eye) sensible description of laying out a Django project’s files. I’d love to see more good examples if you know any.
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Eleven Django blog engines you should know | Monty Lounge Blog
Fairly recent round-up.
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Montylounge’s django-mingus at master - GitHub
Of all the Django weblog apps, I *think* this is supposed to be one of the best.
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Pinax
I don’t know enough to know if this is good, but it sounds interesting - lots of basic tools to jump-start building your Django site.
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jCarousel - Riding carousels with jQuery
There are lots of things like this, but I’ve used this one and it seems very nice.
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Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders
One of those things you didn’t know you needed until you saw it. Very handy. (via Infovore)
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Jilion - SublimeVideo
That lovely HTML5 video player which I keep seeing and then forgetting the URL of.
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Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus
From the developers of TmyMCE. (via Simon Willison)
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Revised Font Stack | A Way Back
More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)
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Melody: Community Powered Publishing
An in-development open source CMS designed to be compatible with Movable Type. Not sure why, but maybe it’s interesting…?
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Byrnereese’s mt-plugin-profiler at master - GitHub
Hopefully useful Movable Type plugin for working out which bits of your templates are taking ages to rebuild.
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Boks - A Visual Grid Editor - Toki Woki.
An AIR application that generates customised CSS etc files for use with the Blueprint CSS framework. Handy.
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Robhudson’s django-debug-toolbar at master - GitHub
Looks very handy for showing what’s happening under the hood on your Django pages.
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Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django « SaltyCrane Blog
A handy guide. What am I getting into…
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Tools of Pro Django developer – aka What powers dinette and almost every app we write.
Some useful things to have a look into.
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Tipsy
More jQuery-based, Facebook-style, tooltips. (via Simon Willison)
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qTip - The jQuery tooltip plugin - Home
(via Simon Willison)
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GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter :: Home
(via Infovore)
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Jcrop - Deep Liquid
jQuery-based tool for letting users crop images. (via Infovore)
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960 Gridder - Lay out websites with ease.
Handy bookmarklet that overlays a grid on top of the current web page.
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Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
About writing the Guardian’s site that lets people examine MPs’ expenses. Especially good on the lessons learned from the first version, and how they improved for the second.
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Useful temporal functions & queries | code.openark.org
Some handy little techniques in there for calculating time and date things in MySQL. (via Infovore)
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Installing and running Movable Type on OpenSolaris : George Drapeau’s Weblog
Could also be useful.
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Install Movable Type on a Mac - Adventures in Movable Type
This is always more pain than it should be. A handy guide.
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The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine
Ignore the stupid title as it’s worth a read. About people who do custom page designs for every blog post.
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Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework
Looks very interesting as a basis from which to build. (via Haddock)
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An elegant, flexible WordPress theme · Tarski
Not bad, not sure about the serif subheads myself, but a good base. (via Haddock)
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Carrington - The CMS Theme Framework for WordPress
(via Haddock)
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Basic Maths | A new theme for WordPress designed and developed by Khoi Vinh with Allan Cole.
Somehow both simple and busy at the same time. (via Daring Fireball)
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Ie6-upgrade-warning - Project Hosting on Google Code
Easy-to-slot-in warning to users of Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade. Please.
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What Mother never told you about SVN Branching and Merging « Design By Gravity
This kind of stuff scares me, but this is a technique that’s supposed to work.
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Flogr - Project Hosting on Google Code
Looks like a nice way to make a portfolio site from your photos stored on Flickr. Example: http://thecarruthfamily.com/michael/photos/ (via Infovore)
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Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]
The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)
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Facebook Developers | Platform Live Status
Current status of the Facebook platform.
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Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps
Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)
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Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
For IE6 or IE7. (via Haddock)
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My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage
More tools with which to beat IE into submission. (via Haddock)
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Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition
Tool for “diagnosing and preventing AJAX performance issues”. Annoyingly on Windows, for Internet Explorer, but free and could be useful. (via Yoz)
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Mu — Mu Connect
A JavaScript library for making interaction with Facebook Connect easier. Which I somehow didn’t find when it would have been useful to me.