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Draggable Div Windows with Javascript

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

yet another wondeful example of jquery plus some ingeniuos work.

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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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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Established Domain’s for sale on Webmaster Forums

Woody — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:47:41 +0000

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

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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Essential Wordpress Plugins

Woody — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:29:37 +0000

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

Woody — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:03:03 +0000

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

Wordpress mu plugins and theme packs

Woody — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:56:24 +0000

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.

Further to that WPMU is a great place to find plugins specifically for MU, as well as a great 100+ theme pack that all works with MU.