Tag: Web
AlertGrid is an interesting online instant notifications service (written in Python/Django) that helps reacting on the custom events (server down, script error, machine stopped) by sending SMS/phone/email notification.
"Since Adam D'Angelo, the founder, had worked for Facebook, which heavily uses PHP. I am trying to understand the technical challenges the founders of Quora faced before they decided to go with Python rather than PHP."
PIE makes Internet Explorer 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features including border-radius, box-shadow and linear-gradient.
Data URIs allow to embed images (and other files) directly into HTML and CSS.
wdCalendar is a jquery based google calendar clone. It cover most google calendar features.
HTML5 is the next generation of HTML and this tutorial teaches you about the new features in HTML5.
"We know there are a lot of free icons available for web developers out there, but we also know it’s pretty hard to find the best ones in one place. So we have have gathered in this post 2379 free icons, from 21 icon packs." by IconsPedia.
"Minimalism is achieved by reducing a design to only the most essential elements. Expressions of minimalism span multiple disciplines, as well as other art forms such as music and literature. For website designers, though, minimalism can be intimidating and difficult to master." by Smashing Magazine.
Design for delight, keypress navigation, print design influence, horizontalism, rich and strong typography.
A Collection of jQuery and Ajax Tutorials with live demos, tutorials posted on 9lessons blog.
Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Opera.
Flask is a micro webdevelopment framework for Python.
"Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community." via Smashing Magazine.
uWSGI is a fast (pure C), self-healing, developer-friendly WSGI server, aimed for professional python webapps deployment and development.
W3C cheatsheet aims at providing in a very compact and mobile-friendly format a compilation of useful knowledge extracted from W3C specifications (CSS, HTML, SVG and XPath).
The list of top 30 most influential people in web design. It is in order starting from the most influential person at number 1, all the way down to 30.
The third largest retailer in the world, Tesco, a grocery-and-more chain largely in the UK, will soon unveil a REST API for its online store (Tesco API profile).
FireQuery is a collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery.
Cal Henderson (Flickr architect) shared a great presentation about scalable web architectures common patterns.
Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets.
crunchy is an interactive Python tutorials served through a web browser.
Steve Huffman’s and Alexis Ohanian’s told on Pycon Keynote why Reddit uses Python.
Jacob Gube presented ten Flash components that will help you in building stunningly attractive, complex, and interactive data visuals.
Spellr.us - spell checks your entire website in one go.
4Developers conference took place in Krakow, Poland on 7th March 2009, where I had a pleasure of presenting Python language and Django web framework. Presentation covered a introduction to Python and brief history, architecture, features, and the short example of Django. Please find attached presentation from this talk.
Dan Zambonini is developing a checklist that all websites should be checked against before launch. Some well-known and well-documented tasks (such as validation and accessibility testing) are not explained in detail as most web developers will know what these refer to.