Category: Web-Development

The latest official Wordpress app for iOS is pretty sweet. WYSIWYG editing, super easy to attach photos. Hence all the recent picture posts, hehe.

Interesting write up on the challenges of ramping up to serious traffic at scale. The cronjob that generates $4 million a year — Embracing Technology & Social Media to change a Digital Culture! — …

Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim. Yep, vim, in your browser. I only messed around with it briefly, but it seemed competent enough to cover the basics. via

Crazy awesome animations. via Effeckt.css.

I’m generally a Firebug guy myself, but this tutorial video for the Chrome console makes me second guess that a bit.

If you’re a web developer, Emmet is an easy to learn macro language that speeds up typing of HTML and CSS. Its supported in lots editors (via plugins). I’ve personally used in Komodo Edit (back when …

After messing around with tinysort, I just couldn’t get it to do what I was looking for (reliably anyway…) So, I put together my own custom sort function. Turns out it way more straightforward than I …

While we’re at it, lets sort the contacts in there by last name, first name. Needs SPANs around the first and last names, but I think can live with that.

TinySort 1.5.6. Super handy helper for sorting nodes in the DOM. Tons of options for sorting on specific parts of your content.

 Nifty Modal Window Effects | Codrops. The 3d stuff is surprisingly smooth even in big browser windows.

My faithful minions report that the way I was syndicating my blog posts to twitter, HootSuite, provided a less than optimal click through experience on links that I posted in the blog. Many times, …

noidontdig / gitdown Yep, a coder specific breathalyzer!

Adactio: Journal—Inspiration calling. The story of two sites that look suspiciously similar.

James Bond 007 Cars Evolution | Evans Halshaw. Cool content and presentation. Innovate scrolling and animation.

Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot. Thank goodness those days are (mostly) behind us.

New Feature: Calendars — The Official Squarespace Blog. Great stuff!

I’m not sure why, but I’ve always run the Firebug Firefox debugging tool in attached mode. That is, connected to the browser window that its analyzing. Today, I tried it detached (in its own window.) …

End the CAPTCHA Agony | Are You a Human. Haven’t encountered one of their challenges yet, but looks a like novel solution to the CAPTCHA problem (make text hard enough for a computer to try to …

color.hailpixel.com · Swatch you doing?. I think this will be my new color experiment tool. via

Dissecting Gmail’s Email Attachments - Web Standards Sherpa. How to do modern file uploads with drag and drop and feedback. Good stuff.

Squarespace Commerce is Here — The Official Squarespace Blog. If their e-commerce tools are as well thought out as their other stuff, this will be a game changer.

Support Details | Tech Support Management. Quickly summarize browser details, just by visiting a site. Easier than asking folks to dig stuff out of the about menu and gives other details like cookies …

Anatomy of Backbone.JS Part 2 - Code School. Fun stuff!

Came through my feed again, and still makes me giggle… https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Virtual tools | Testing made easier in Internet Explorer | modern.IE. I thought saw Microsoft virtual machines for testing IE previously, but you probably had to be an MSDN member. Now it appears …

An interesting presentation on the current state of my language of choice:

UserAgentString.com Decodes all the craziness in modern browser user agent strings. It would be nice if everybody would stop trying to emulate everybody else and just be there own thing. WTF? abounds. …

I tried selling some domains a while back, but all I got was some scammer trying to sell needless domain appraisals. This time around, I really want them to go. So, I’m pricing them at the rock bottom …

Finally getting around to moving to a new registrar. I’ve heard lots of good things about Hover. Out of the gate, their domain registration process is about 100 less clicks than godaddy, who tries to …

Node.js, possibly not as cool as it sounds?

Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas by David of 37signals. Definitely something to improve on. Don’t build it or think about it too hard until its really a requirement.

I was in the office at 4:07 AM this morning; I’m pretty sure that’s the earliest I’ve ever been in. Needed to do a complicated site migration. Pleased that the 75 minute long, 50 step recipe went off …

xkcd: Tags. Another one is trying to ajax append a DIV into a SPAN in Internet Explorer. Doesn’t work, doesn’t generate any errors. Nice.

Internet Explorer 10 Ad Is Brutally Honest [VIDEO]. Concur that it does suck less, but it still has a lot of suck stored up still to shed.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been giving Meals on Wheels of Syracuse a hand modernizing their website. Yesterday, we flipped the switch to make the new site live. Their old website had a lot of good …

SQL Fiddle. Interesting. I’ve known about jsfiddle for a while. Didn’t know there was an SQL equivalent. Wow! it even lets you pick between different database engines (Mysql, Oracle, Postgresql, and …

Nice little video tutorials for using Twitter Bootstrap. I only had a chance to check out the forms video, but plan to check out the others soon.

Jetstrap - The Bootstrap Interface Builder. A layout and content editor for Bootstrap. Drag and drop your way to a clean site layout. Reminds me a lot of the Squarespace editor.