October 2008
31 posts
“If Apple went to a party, it would turn up last and leave with the hottest girl...”
– Via Wired blog
The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift →
Stanford's iPhone Programming Class →
Slides and handouts from Stanford’s iPhone programming course (CS193P - iPhone Application Programming).
Delaying Javascript Event Execution →
If you’re looking to execute javascript code whenever someone finishes (or stops temporary) scrolling, moving the mouse, or resizing the page, you may find the following segment of code useful.
JavaScript and screen readers →
How JAWS and Window-Eyes handle (or don’t handle) JavaScript events.
Losing ClearType in Internet Explorer
Sometimes IE7 likes to stop using ClearType (fonts look pixily or lack anti-aliasing). You may not even notice it at first. But, it does happen, and it isn’t the font-size you are using or some other bug that you think IE might have drummed up for you.
What you have encountered is a clash with DXImageTransform (most likely using filter opacity). The most likely scenario is that you are...
WatchDon Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women. via tmblg
40 Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials →
Grunge is a popular trend that gives designs a more organic and realistic look. It also provides a stark contrast to the simplistic, polished and rigid Web 2.0 trend, opting instead for a less…
“What I find interesting is that the “lightweight equivalent” usually turns out...”
– Via Contrast and The Benefits of Contraints.
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“The good news in all of this is that folks are going to be spending a lot of...”
– Jason Calacanis in his latest email “Good News for People who Hate Bad News.”
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CSS Browser Selector →
A lightweight (less than 1kb) JavaScript file that conditionally classes the html element allowing you to write browser specific selectors in your CSS. Similar outcome to…
HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser →
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer….
12 Tests for Evaluating a CSS Implementation
Recently, I was asked what 3 to 5 things I would look at to determine whether a website was well implemented from a styling perspective. How do you evaluate whether the markup and CSS is coded well?
Well, I couldn’t keep it to under 5 things, but instead came up with 12 tests for evaluating a CSS implementation. It isn’t an exhaustive list, nor does it constitute a complete and thorough code...
The Internet Marketing Handbook →
The Internet Marketer’s Handbook is a link list of internet marketing and search engine optimization techniques compiled by Danny Dover at SEOMoz.
Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets →
The Google spreadsheet function =importHTM(””,”table”,N) will scrape a table from an HMTL web page into a Google spreadsheet.
Jcrop: the jQuery Image Cropping Plugin →
Well polished UI for image cropping. Includes server side demo.
Page Inlink Analyzer →
Powered by Yahoo! Search, Delicious and YUI
Creating Flash Games →
Kongregate Labs provides tutorials for building Flash games.
Free links to your site →
Matt Cutts explains how you can use Google’s web master tools to identify 404 pages.
WAVE Toolbar →
Run the WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool inside Firefox.
JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging →
JS Bin is a webapp specifically designed to help JavaScript and CSS folk test snippets of code, within some context, and debug the code collaboratively.
Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example →
iPhone Full-screen Web apps →
Apple’s latest iPhone software updates is the ability to save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of…
Using jQuery for Background Image Animations →
Jonathan Snook puts together a really clean example of jQuery background animations.
Firefox Throttle →
Windows only plugin that allows you to cap download/upload rates and monitor current bandwidth utilization. Supposed to support latency delays in the near future. Also available: IE Throttle.
Reading Blinds — a YUI-powered Reading Tool →
Reading Blinds is a bookmarklet to cover the screen with a dark overlay and only shows a few lines at a time. It is particularly handy for reducing the overall brightness due to surrounding…
Hammerhead - Firebug extension for measuring page... →
From Steve Souders, Hammerhead displays timings for empty cache and primed cache. It contains buttons to clear the disk and memory cache, or just the memory cache. You can also choose to have…