Category Archives: Web Development

AJAX Charts

componentart.com Have some very nice components if your looking for out of the box AJAX UI / Charting Great for a paid version of Open source flash charts

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Purify your HTML – Strait Laced HTML Filtering

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.

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Widgetised Page Parts – Page Flakes

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.

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PHP Frameworks

I’ve dabbled with a few of these in my time but often still opt for procedural programming rather than the behemoth that oop can become. Still its nice to know some php frameworks

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Browser Compatability Checking

Checking out your latest web development browser compatibility is an important thing to do, the following will help you check all the important browsers out on your own box (vmware will help you achieve all as you need macosx for multiple safari.) http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone http://browser.netscape.com/ http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/ http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ http://www.apple.com/safari/ http://www.google.com/chrome http://www.oldapps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=213 http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml

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Generating Data

Looking for a quick way to make a few thousand lines to test a report or page – http://www.generatedata.com

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Fixing the Web with GNU

I think fixing the web is a solid idea and more people should take securing their important stuff seriously, school boy errors affect more than school boys.

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Pure CSS dropdowns

As users catch up with browser versions this wont be an issue but with everyone so javascript paranoid its nice to have a fallback noscript Pure CSS menu in the wings. This is an excellent example.

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Captcha has been dead for a long time

Captcha’s – if you hadn’t realised have been pretty much anhilated by some good coding. Only the most screwed up of charectors now prove too difficult to crack programattically or by using a paid slave labour solution. The world of real human form submission never stood a chance.

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Alexa Rank in PHP

One of the 50-100 most useful web relative statistics is a websites alexa ranking. This fantastic alexa rank finder in php does what it says on the tin.

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