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Firefox Screen Reader extension
Working on some tables, was thinking about the accessibility issues and came across this linked in this discussion of Voiceover, Apple’s screen reader. CLC-4-TTS CLC-4-TTS is a cross OS compatible (Windows, Mac, Linux) collection of JavaScript functions that can be used for transforming Firefox into a self-voicing browser. This software is open source and is…
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Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar
This is very useful. It lets you see just how messed up IE’s internal model of where elements are is… A good tool indeed, excellent addition to the web designer’s toolbox. By the way, it does in fact work on Windows 2000, in case you were wondering. 🙂 It’s pretty much like the IE version…
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Vex – A Visual Editor for XML
Hmm, XML, java, eclipse…. buahahahahaha. OS X baby. Vex – A Visual Editor for XML Vex – A Visual Editor for XML Vex is an editor for XML documents. The “visual” part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex…
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Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse
Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse Java developers have quickly made Eclipse one of the most popular Java coding tools on Mac OS X. But although Eclipse is a comfortable tool to use every day once you know it, it is not easy…
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LightPress – Faster WordPress frontened?
Hmm. Will definitely have to check this out, as we’ve got tons of WordPress sites running right now… 🙂 LightPress � About About LightPress is a frontend for the popular WordPress blogging platform. A frontend is the code sitting between the db and your blog’s readers, which manages all user interaction and displays the relevant…
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Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines Meet Django Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Developed and used over the past two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed from scratch to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and…
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JsUnit – Javascript Unit Testing tool
JsUnit JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and mutiple machines running different OSs. Its development began in January 2001. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2005/09/30/jsunit-javascript-unit-testing-tool/
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Find IE Memory Leaks using Drip – Download link
Using Drip, a cool little Windows app written by Joel Webber (not available on his not-available site anymore), you can see how much memory IE on Windows is leaking every time you refresh your web page. This is useful if your web application seems to slow down over time. Still working out how you should…
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Fix for WordPress IE Download Problem
I had been experiencing a problem with this site and another where when you visited using IE on Windows you would get a download dialog box asking if you wanted to Open or Save (not allowing you to view the regular web page.) After some Googling around, found some solutions on the WordPress support forums:…
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SCons: A software construction tool
Found on the LightHTTP blog SCons: A software construction tool What is SCons? SCons is an Open Source software construction tool — that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short,…