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More good Wordpress themes

Woody — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:25:17 +0000

Performancing general posting isn’t all that but they have some good wordpress themes:

wp themes @ performancing

Draggable Div Windows with Javascript

Woody — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:19:18 +0000

yet another wondeful example of jquery plus some ingeniuos work.

MB Container Plus

High Connection numbers to a web server

Woody — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:16:18 +0000

Worth a look at C10k (challenge to build a server capable of 10k concurrent connections) : http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

and a resulting server software that steps towards that (powers youtube etc..) lighttpd fly light : http://www.lighttpd.net/story

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Screen Grab

Woody — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:00:49 +0000

If you don’t want to use an external service to screenshot a site (see this excellent one), use firefox and use screen grab:

http://screengrab.org

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Dublin Core Metadata

Woody — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:38:38 +0000

…a lot more popular and wide spread than you’d think.

http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

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Last Stage for Dublin Core

Simulating Browsers in Ruby

Woody — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:29:20 +0000

Watir is the bomb at simulating real browsing – runs on ruby

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Browser compatibility – Screenshots from different Browsers

Woody — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:50:18 +0000

This is an epically helpful tool for webdesigners, I have seen a fair few versions of it requiring sign ups but this one is the slickest and is free!

To see an example : http://browsershots.org/http://woodylabs.com/

Or stick your own url in : http://browsershots.org

I originally found this gem on Gath Adams blog so props to him!

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Websafe Custom fonts in HTML

Woody — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:42:39 +0000

Using non common font’s in html is achievable in lots of ways – but often messing about with cross browser compatabilities pushes people into creating solid graphics, using flash or video for simplicity. A lot of fots are on most peoples boxes…actually:

Common Fonts – with percentages

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Purify your HTML – Strait Laced HTML Filtering

Woody — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:59:43 +0000

Often running your HTML through the HTML Purifier is a good idea, for those seeking out of the box html purification in a nice easy to work with download.

Widgetised Page Parts – Page Flakes

Woody — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:57:11 +0000

Its a brewing AJAX requirement in modern web dev – Moveable, dockable, widgetised web pages. Google may not love it but the idea is good for the end user. Page Flakes is the ultimate example of this widgetised page segmented idea.