From the monthly archives:
53 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection
(tags: web_development jquery javascript tutorials resources tips)
MySpace's Performance Tracker
Looks like a Firebug for IE 6+.
"MySpace’s Performance Tracker is a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code performance by capturing and measuring possible bottlenecks on their web pages."
(tags: web_development performance ie optimization plugins development tools testing)
html5doctor, [...]
How To Draw A Vector iPhone In Illustrator
"Using mainly vector shapes and some gradients, I’m going to create a vector drawing of an iPhone in Illustrator."
(tags: design illustrator tutorials)
Folding Table
(tags: furniture furnishings furniture_and_decor)
Understanding the Context in jQuery
(tags: web_development jquery javascript optimization performance)
What is barbecue?
An exhaustive definition of barbecue and a great explanation of the myths and facts that surround barbecue
(tags: barbecue food history)
10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance
(tags: web_development jquery performance javascript optimization tips)
jBreadCrumb
" This collapsible breadcrumb was developed to deal with deeply nested, verbosely named pages. Rather than limit the amount of elements [...]
The Book Seer
(tags: books reading literature recommendations)
Simplifying CSS Selectors
Optimizing the performance of CSS selectors by focusing on the rightmost selector to reduce the amount of elements the browser has to check.
(tags: css performance web_development)
Dasher
"Dasher is a preference pane and background application that work together to automatically activate Dashboard when your Mac is idle. You can choose the amount of time Dasher waits before activating Dashboard and can easily disable Dasher with a handy checkbox."
(tags: os_x dashboard preference_pane)
SizzlingKeys for Mac OS X
"Whether it's to pause the player, adjust the [...]
Perch
"Perch is a really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS."
(tags: cms php mysql web_development)
BBBBBBBBQ: Maple bourbon barbecue sauce
(tags: recipes barbecue bbq barbecue_sauces)
The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
"the relative location of each U.S. Supreme Court justice on an ideological continuum."
(tags: politics visualization information_visualization history supreme_court scotus)
Creating Widgets in Wordpress 2.8 with the Widget API
"I’m going to run you through how to create a simple multi-instance widget for adding posts your sidebar."
(tags: web_development wordpress [...]
ForeUI
"ForeUI is a handy UI prototyping tool. It can rapidly create static or interactive, sknnable UI prototypes of your website or software. "
(tags: web_design prototyping tools ui wireframes ux)
InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices
An excellent collection of infographics and some tips on designing them well
(tags: infographics design visualization)
Decho
Mozy and Pi have merged, creating Decho, which is "dedicated to your "digital echo" — helping you protect, manage, and enrich the digital information you care about most. "
(tags: storage backup services)
Spezify
(tags: search visualization ideas)
Check My Colours – Analyse the color contrast of web pages
"a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits."
(tags: web_design css colors tools usability accessibility)
Web Developer's Toolbox
A collection of Web Developer-oriented Firefox extensions to aid in troubleshooting [...]
Anonymous Pro
Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
(tags: web_development fonts programming typography coding)
Simple jQuery Spy Effect
(tags: [...]
Autoresizing Smart Columns with jQuery
"Allow as many fixed columns to line up across the viewport. Take excess white space and evenly distribute them to each of the columns to complete the full row. This way the columns will always fit perfectly.
"And also, It keeps a default fixed width as the base, so that the columns [...]
Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts?
(tags: web_design css jquery layout web_development)
Form auto-fill bookmarklet
This is a bookmarklet. You go to page that has one or more forms and you click the bookmarklet. It completes the form for you with some random data. The whole thinking was to have a form ready to be submitted and [...]
Search your bookshelf with a $65 barcode scanner
A very interesting write-up that covers scanning barcodes of your books and uploading them to Google Library, which will allow you to do full text searches across all of them.
(tags: books google barcode)
jQuery idleTimer plugin
a plugin to detect if a user has been idle for a period of time.
(tags: web_development jquery plugins javascript)
Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips
'I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past [...]
UserVue
"UserVue is a web-based service which makes it easy to get insight into how your website or application is used. Observe, discuss and record real customers giving real feedback."
(tags: usability usability_testing testing tools web_design ux ui)
Better CSS Font Stacks
"I have compiled a list of font stacks that will both open up more font possibilities for web designers, and hopefully offer more appropriate substitutes"
(tags: web_design css typography fonts reference)
Font Matrix
"Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite"
(tags: web_design fonts typography reference css)
jQuery Ajax [...]
Panasonic TC-P50S1 Flat-panel TV reviews – CNET Reviews
(tags: televisions reviews)
Panasonic TC-P50G10 Flat-panel TV reviews – CNET Reviews
(tags: televisions reviews)
AT-ATs: not just for xmas – a set on Flickr
(tags: photography flickr photos star_wars)