In this tutorial, I’ll show you, line by line, how to build a photo wall by pulling your pictures from Flickr using the Flickr API, jQuery, Ajax and JSON. The script I wrote places the following information over the image to which it relates: title, author, comment count, tag listing, location with a link to a map of those coordinates and the description.
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It is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. All the tests are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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12 best free cms options available. Some might seem really familiar (we love wordpress) and some others might be new to you. They all deserve your attention for a few minutes. Hell, even test drive a few of them and see if there’s any that might work for a new project – I’m currently digging into SilverStripe which looks to be pretty damn awesome!
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Plugin, which shows all system relevant data of a WordPress intallation. It's a pure information tool, you cannot change any data or settings. The Plugin shows 4 tabs with information about the "System", "PHP" version, some "WordPress" functions, constants and "Database".
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Back in 2006, the XR3 diesel hybrid went on sale as a kit car. While it was great for the DIY-ers, anyone who wanted the vehicle but didn't have the time to invest in assembly was out of luck. A problem solved by the recent decision to assemble the XR3 at the factory and ship it to buyers from there.
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ChessTweets is the newest generation of correspondence chess. ChessTweets uses the Twitter API to send chess moves remotely to your oppenent by using any of Twitter's versatile status update methods. With a Twitter account, play a quick game against a friend or start a correspondence game for free and without any registration required!
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Architecture has come a long way. Thanks to modern building technology and materials, architects can create even more extreme buildings. This freedom sometimes results in amazing creations. Here are some of my favourites:
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My friend, Jørgen, doesn't believe I can collect one million hand drawn giraffes by 2011. I'm gonna prove him wrong. So far I've got 1324 giraffes, so I need 998 676 more! And I have 564 days left to get them. Let's show Jørgen how amazing the internet is.
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I think I may need this iPhone stencil. While the numerous digital stencils are great for starting points on closer to finished comps or interactive wireframes, this looks perfect for earlier sketches.
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Is there some kind of a boot logfile in OSX? I have the idea that my mbp boots fairly slow, and i'd like to know what it's doing : apple - http://www.reddit.com/r...
These clever calendar tape turns any surface into a place to track dates and plan out the future one strip at a time. A parallel roll of day-of-week tape allows you to start and finish anywhere you want - create short strips on the go or cover an entire wall of your living room with stripes of yellow calendar.
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While the Linux platform for personal computing isn’t as common as Windows or Mac, it has a strong corps of users and a relatively large showing on Twitter. Most of these Twitter apps, like the majority of Linux apps, are open-source and free. The four clients we’ll be looking at are: gTwitter, Qt Twitter Linux, Spaz, and Twitux.
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Silkscreen font Silkscreen is a four member type family for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen, with both Mac and Windows versions, is free for personal and corporate use. There is more information about Silkscreen, including terms of use, in the FAQ below.
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Speech bubble icons have become synonymous with comments. When creating yet another one for a standard comment link, it occurred to me that there might be a way to make the icon without ever opening up an image editor. It could all be done with CSS. After all, a word bubble is only two shapes a rounded rectangle and a triangle. For it to work, I just needed to add a couple tags inside the comment link.
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# A free, multiplatform administration tool for your SQLite Databases # Open, create, compact databases # Create, rename, delete, and empty tables # Create, rename and delete columns # Create, modify and delete records # Encrypt or reencrypt your databases # Easily run your custom SQL statements # Create and delete indices
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A free flash + XML image slideshow (gallery) Fashionable flash + XML image slideshow with slick navigation and design, fully customizable from XML, with a motion blur effect on image transition. The gallery navigation bar changes its color based on the displayed photo colors.
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Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning. Pylot generates concurrent load (HTTP Requests), verifies server responses, and produces reports with metrics. Tests suites are executed and monitored from a GUI or shell/console. To begin using Pylot, read the Getting Started Guide.
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Ultimate Cheat Sheet Colllection Cheat Sheets are handle for web development. Usually, these sheets are either printed out and pasted on the wall of your working area or they are placed on your computer as wallpaper. Referencing in this way makes working faster and more effective. Here are a complete list usually used by most designers and developers during web development. Enjoy!
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When you scroll down a defined number of pixels, you get a “Scroll to Top” link in the lower right hand part of the screen. When you’re back at the top, ScrollSpy is directed to hide the link.
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Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations. Axiis is built upon the Degrafa graphics framework and Adobe Flex 3.
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