Category Archives: Web Development

Draggable Div Windows with Javascript

yet another wondeful example of jquery plus some ingeniuos work.
MB Container Plus

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High Connection numbers to a web server

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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Dublin Core Metadata

…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

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Simulating Browsers in Ruby

Watir is the bomb at simulating real browsing – runs on ruby
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Established Domain’s for sale on Webmaster Forums

Another gem from Gath Adams here – We Got Domain will show you domains for sale on forums like Digital Point, great to pick up some established domain bargains.
I am hoping he is scraping these and not adding by hand as its currently at 10k domains

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Browser compatibility – Screenshots from different Browsers

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

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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Essential Wordpress Plugins

Wordpress is a superior blogging platform, mainly because it democratises the tools of personal/business/communicative online publication/communication.
One of its winning factors is the ability to easily write/add custom plugins. I wouldn’t recommend all of the following plugins but a fair few are essentials.
21 Wordpress Plugins / 9 SEO Plugins for Wordpress

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Google Insights – Rising Trends in UK

If you are looking for a more long term view of search queiries than trends/twitter then Insights is worth a look:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#geo=GB&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=geo

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Wordpress mu plugins and theme packs

No doubt you have heard of Wordpress, the HUGE free blogging platform. This in fact runs on it. If your upscaling wordpress mu is a great way of running multiple blogs on one box without the hassle of maintaining with updates across multiple blogs.
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