Alex Jones

A comprehensive primer for building a WordPress-powered site in a weekend. Geared towards non-geeks.

"a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end users point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. "

"the goal is simply to get you comfortable working your way through problems you’ll commonly be called upon to solve using jQuery"

"Electric motor makes height adjustment easy, quick and effortless
Adjust working height from sitting to standing (or anywhere in between) at the touch of a button"

It appears that Anthony changed his account name and thus the path to the CSScaffold source.

"It’s a graphical representation of the service journey of a customer. It shows their perspective from the beginning, middle and end as they engage a service to achieve their goal, showing the range of tangible and quantitative interactions, triggers and touchpoints, as well as the intangible and qualitative motivations, frustrations and meanings."

"a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications, it has also proven to be useful for creating quick and dirty simulations, demos, and experience prototypes."

A Coda plugin to that uses the YUI compressor to automatically minify and save ({filename}.min.{js|css}) a compressed version of a CSS or JS file.

"InstaCDN provides a simple REST API to easily minify, combine, gzip and push your css, js and image assets into the Amazon Cloudfront CDN with far-future expiration headers. "

via @grumpicus

Bacon Pancakes. Nuff said.

via @dalemdavis

This is the beginning of a very big change…

I love this city. Via @maczter

This helped solve a really odd overlap issue in IE 7.

Wow, Google is serving up open source fonts for use in Web sites the world over. The implementation looks super simple and compatible with the vast majority of browsers – IE 6+, Safar 3.1+, Firefox 3.5+ and Chrome 4.24+.

"The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers."

"Google’s serving infrastructure takes care of converting the font into a format compatible with any modern browser (including Internet Explorer 6 and up), sends just the styles and weights you select, and the font files and CSS are tuned and optimized for web serving."

"If you want to protect secrets from the "merely curious", Trick.ly lets you put a password on links with clues only your friends would get."

As Seth Godin Noted "Its not secure. Its sort of private."

"allows you to make (link-)elements more dynamic by making an attribute of that element show up on hover"

A great breakdown of Open Graphs potential impact on the Web and the possibilities available for developers

A great infographic showing how to "navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options"

via @myerman

"nserts a layout grid in web pages, allows you to hold it in place, and toggle between displaying it in the foreground or background. "

"a simple wrapper plugin for Prototype, MooTools and jQuery to cache data on browser side."

"trst.me measures user reputation in a way far more robust than counting the number of followers. The basic idea is to look at how many people interact with you and give you their attention, weighted by how many people interact and pay attention to them. The trst.me score is currently based on a scale of 0-10, where 10 is the highest reputation possible."

"Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies"

"an inline lightbox alternative"

"an application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files"

"a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color. "

"Binge Britain 1904: The rogues gallery that shows war on booze is nothing new"

"ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what youre doing – ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms."

"a clean search interface and activity graphs to help you find jQuery plugins that suit your requirements and are reliable enough to become part of your codebase. "

"the perfect A/V conversion tool for those of us that are not A/V experts. With its drag and drop ease of use and simple, custom settings behind the curtain, it’s the answer to all the "other" confusing and complicated alternatives."

"capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computers audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time.The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog"

"The all-in-one screen recorder for Mac. Record what you see on your screen. Edit it into a stunning movie. Share it in the most universal formats. All from a single application."

"gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. Its the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development."

"This chart lists and compares the different default style sheets used to render HTML in the four major versions of Internet Explorer; IE6, IE7, IE8, and IE9 Platform Preview."

via @wcyarbrough (Yarrrrrr!)

via @chilkari.

"Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJs Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary."

"Vector based icons created to aid in the design, development, implementation and promotion of multi-touch interfaces."

"In this article you will learn the two common methods used for creating isometric illustrations and how to create them in Illustrator."

A great example of a working and useful project status board.

jQuery plugin for "creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript"

via @robertbanh

"Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies"

via @damon "Amazon.com price drop and in-stock notifier"