Category: Development

  • What are the officially supported browsers that Yahoo supports?

    Ever wonder what browsers Yahoo! supports and how much it supports each one? This chart tells you exactly how much. “You never got fired for supporting the same browsers that Yahoo! supports…” 🙂 This table shows the grade of support that each browser receives. For more information, see Graded Browser Support. Yahoo! Developer Network: Graded…

  • Yahoo! UI Library – Free BSD licensed DHTML widgets

    Yahoo! User Interface Library The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to important elements…

  • Subversion tips: working with branches

    Good article on branching techniques for Subversion. Subversion is great software, essentially a major upgrade of CVS. Its branch support is stellar, for a few reasons: * Visibility: Branches are physical copies, you can see all branches, stored by convention in the /branches folder. This is unlike CVS (or VSS) where branches are placed in…

  • PNG support javascript for IE

    PNG for Win32 IE5.5 / Mac IE5 / Moz Each of the flowers below is the same PNG format graphic with an alpha channel on four different colored backgrounds. Note how the backgrounds shine through the alpha layer. new document Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/02/14/png-support-javascript-for-ie/

  • youngpup.net – TransMenus – neat free Javascript menu script

    This is a cool animated Javascript menu script that used to cost $150 and is now free. Cooool! 🙂 These menus are a slightly cleaned up version of the ones I wrote for Media Temple back in the day. youngpup.net – TransMenus Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/02/14/youngpupnet-transmenus-neat-free-javascript-menu-script/

  • Python at Google (presentation by Greg Stein given at SDForum)

    I love this part of this nice piece about some of the technology / programming practices at Google: Python programmers at Google must follow a strict style guideline (based on PEP8 with 2 spaced indenting). When engineers are first granted commit access to their SCM system, they must pass a style test. All code must…

  • So you need a hammer, huh?

    This is pretty funny, and I suspect, more than a little bit accurate. Let’s pretend I’ve decided to build a spice rack. I’ve done small woodworking projects before, and I think I have a pretty good idea of what I need: some wood and a few basic tools: a tape measure, a saw, a level,…

  • Creating a Mozilla/Firefox Drag and Drop file upload Script (Part 1)

    Drag and drop upload of a file into Mozilla is possible? This promises to deliver that formerly IE – Windows only capability. Yay. Creating a Mozilla/Firefox Drag and Drop file upload Script (Part 1) There has been a lot of focus lately on web applications which have enhanced rich-client functionality, such as the oft-published AJAX…

  • Seagull Framework :: Overview

    Overview Introduction Welcome to the Seagull Framework project, created and maintained by Demian Turner and the Seagull community. Seagull is an object oriented framework written in PHP that focuses on best practices, clean code and reusable components. The core libraries are free for you to use in your own projects and a number of modules…

  • Ned Batchelder: Deleting code

    Really nice article for all you developers out there about good coding practices and specifically the issue of letting go when the time is right. There’s plenty of information out there about how to write code. Here’s some advice on how to delete code. The best way to delete code This may seem obvious, but…

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