Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Adventures (in code) - Alastair Coote • I had no idea how to make custom maps, so I learnt by doing. You should too.
Nice overview of how to get custom maps made with TileMill up and running. (via Infovore)
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High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
Amazingly detailed description of how Tumblr scales. I don’t understand half of this but it sounds exciting. (via @simonw)
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A Case Against Using CoffeeScript ☃ Ryan Florence Online
I’ve never used CoffeeScript, but I just enjoy reading nicely-written articles about code like this. (via Dotcode)
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Disqus/gargoyle - GitHub
Adding feature switching to Django projects.
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Adactio: Journal—Image-y nation
One way to do responsive images on web pages for different-sized devices which is very reminiscent of the old LOWSRC images which I’ve been thinking about recently. (via Infovore)
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Reveal: jQuery Modal Plugin from ZURB - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com
Because I forget the name of this and it’s a very nice, easy-to-set-up and restyle pop-up window plugin.
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Sample IT policies, disclaimers and notices | Business Link
Privacy policy, website terms and conditions, etc. (via mildlydiverting)
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FitText - A plugin for inflating web type
“Use this [jQuery] plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.” Nice. (via @simonw)
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Twitter Bootstrap Generator
Enter colour, font options etc and it generates a compiled CSS file to use with the Twitter Bootstrap framework thing. (via Brett Terpstra)
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Skratchdot/github-code-search.user.js - GitHub
“This is a user script that adds a search box to repository pages which allows you to search the code in that repository.” That’ll save me a lot of downloading just to search through a project’s files. (via Brett Terpstra)
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jqPlot Charts and Graphs for jQuery
I don’t think I noticed this when I was bookmarking similar things a while ago.
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Kern.js - Make web kerning suck less.
Nice: if you’re using Lettering.js on your page, this lets you adjust the text on the page until it looks right, then gives you the CSS adjustments to match your final look.
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Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
Quite nice - adds spans around individual letters, words or lines so you can easily style them with CSS. But all that extra HTML feels “wrong” to me, even if it’s generated automatically. Some pretty examples though.
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Scrollorama
“The jQuery plugin for doing cool scrolly stuff.” Indeed. (via Waxy)
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Bartaz/impress.js - GitHub
Very nice browser-based, JavaScript/CSS thing for making presentations, with all slides held in one 2D (or 3D) space. Try the demo… (via Waxy)
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WordPress Hosting and Managed WordPress Hosting from WP Engine
Looks good, with some nice features. But not cheap compared to more generic hosting options. (via Brett Terpstra)
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Transm.js (javascript programmable image transitions)
A huge range of transitions that can be added to HTML images. All those things you avoid in PowerPoint.
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Close Pixelate · David DeSandro
JavaScript to pixelate images, in a variety of styles, eg like Chuck Close. Very configurable, multiple layers, pixel shapes, etc.
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HTML Elements and Attributes
Very handy-looking reference for HTML5 elements and attributes. (via Brett Terpstra)
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Knyle Style Sheets — Warpspire
Nice idea, a parseable format for commenting CSS. (via Dotcode)
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Types Plugin - Create Custom Post Types and Manage Custom Fields
From the people behind WPML (so it works well with that) this plugin does both custom post types and fields. Some slightly rough edges (it’s new), and no relationship field, but otherwise good. (And no need to use the accompanying pay-for Views plugin.)
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WordPress › Custom Post Type UI « WordPress Plugins
There are loads of Custom Post Type plugins (or you can do it in manually in code) and this seemed like one of the better ones.
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WordPress › Advanced Custom Fields « WordPress Plugins
From the myriad of WP custom fields plugins this seemed like about the best. Nice UIs and a very handy ‘relationship’ field. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work well with WPML.
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WPML - The WordPress Multilingual Plugin
Comprehensive plugin for translating and managing a multilingual site built on WordPress. Multi-language Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Themes, etc. Inevitably a bit complicated and slightly kludgy, but seems to work well.
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A Better Related Posts Plugin – Nicolas Kuttler
I haven’t fully tested this with lots of real content yet but an initial view suggests this is nicely tweakable, and easy to use. And works with Custom Post Types. And (so far, I think) WPML.
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Introducing Rickshaw: A JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs | shutterbits
Bookmark a couple of JavaScript graphy libraries and a new one pops up like magic! (via @revdancatt)
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Wordpress posts order - Post Types Order | Nsp Code
Very simple way to re-order posts. Handles Custom Post Types. $25 Advanced version is nicer, and is compatible with WPML.
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TimThumb - Image Resizer for WordPress
Dynamic generation of differently-sized images for WordPress using GD.
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WordPress › CMS Tree Page View « WordPress Plugins
Looks like it might be a good way to organise pages in WordPress. Lets you reorder Custom Post Types (but not standard Posts), and works with WPML.
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Emprise JavaScript Charts™ :: 100% Pure JavaScript Charts
Another charting library. Looks good too I think. Non-watermarked version is $100 upwards.
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JS Charts - Free JavaScript charts
Looks like a good library for drawing charts/graphs in JavaScript. Costs $39 upwards for a non-watermarked version.
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Home - Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
Interesting as an in-depth discussion of structuring CSS for a large project, something I’d like to see more of. (via Tom Taylor)
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HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today
Some nice, sensible discussion on individual HTML5 elements.
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Git How-To: Remove Your Password from a Repository | David Verhasselt
I’m so going to need to do this at some point. (via Cal)
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Bootstrap, from Twitter
Twitter’s CSS/HTML frameworky thing, which I keep forgetting about.
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Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building Framework from ZURB
Lots of CSS goodies. Grid, forms, etc. (via @hamstand)
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Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development
Looks like a nice bunch of CSS/JS, not that I ever get round to using these things. (via Mildlydiverting)
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ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life | Smarterware
This looks very good. So much more than just archiving your activity on services, which would be a good thing in itself.
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Sycorax: Bring Fictional Characters to Life on Twitter
“Sycorax is a Twitter client, written in Python, that choreographs the online behavior of fictional characters.” Very nice. Introduces slight randomness, characters interacting, etc. (via Infovore)
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Detect Scrollbar Width with JavaScript
A relatively simple way to calculate the width of the vertical scrollbar using JavaScript. (via Brett Terpstra)
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Liesen/spotify-api-server - GitHub
“Implementation of parts of the Spotify playlist API. … It’s a web server that talks to Spotify using libspotify.”
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phpBB • View topic - How to stop a user being sent emails?
Because I’ll forget where this is next time I need it. I’m amazed there’s not a way to simply disable email-sending for a user whose email is bouncing.
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Infovore/goodcastle - GitHub
“A script for deploying Wordpress sites.” Sounds useful. I’ve never been sure how to deploy bloggy/CMS stuff other than terrible FTPing etc.
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jQuery.fracs · larsjung.de
A library for dealing with objects that extend beyond the viewport - how much is visible, where it is, etc.
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Django snippets: Filter by taggit tags in the admin
That’ll be handy at some point.
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Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
This looks good. A three hour video tutorial about deploying Django, “including Amazon’s EC2 and S3, Fabric, Varnish, nginx, mod_wsgi, memcached, PostgreSQL, pgpool, pg_standby, and more.” I just need to find three spare hours now.
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The Best (and Worst) of Django
A presentation covering a few things to do or avoid. Bookmarking it mainly for the settings bit at the end, something I should do better, like this.
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Pinboard/Fandom OTP - Renaming tags
A way to rename any/all of your tags on Pinboard using Python. (via @pinboard)
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Scott Chacon on the Interwebs - GitHub Flow
How GitHub manage their own git workflow. Sounds good to me. (via Tom Taylor)
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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.