Category: Tools

  • How to store 100GB + on a web server for only $15/month + $0.20 per GB of data transferred – New Amazon Web Service

    Amazon is now offering unlimited server storage space that is fully redundantly backed up and always available for a very reasonable rate: Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost. $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. $0.20 per GB of data transferred. I can think of lots of…

  • Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!

    Good visual examples of a variety of CSS layouts (click on thumbnail to see each one in action) that all share the same underlying HTML markup. Good quick reference for simple sites I think. In November 2005 I presented on pro.html.it a three-part article on creating CSS layouts using techniques like negative margins, any order…

  • Andreas’ practical language comparison

    Another comparison matrix – this one for languages: Andreas’ practical language comparison Perhaps you already encountered the situation – you read a bit about some less-mainstreamed language, and ask yourself : How in the world do they write an “hello world” with that? This is where i want APLC to help. I want to collect…

  • My-BIC = Easy Ajax (Another AJAX Framework on del.icio.us today)

    My-BIC = Easy Ajax The What After tiring of over hyped ajax frameworks trying to hide the guts that make ajax programming fun I decided to share my recipe for easy to make ajax applications where you still have control over everything, but the setup of it all is handled for you. This is a…

  • advAJAX / AdvancedAJAX 1.0

    Neat looking Ajax library with a lot of configurability. Someone should do a matrix of all the ajax frameworks with what they offer… 🙂 This text contains the list of all methods and variables of the AdvancedAJAX (advAJAX) object. This project is available for free for both private, non-commercial and commercial usage. In case you…

  • Google Sitemaps – Now with average position of keywords

    I’ll definitely have to check this out later… Google sitemaps turned on a new feature today. Now you have the ability to not only look at what people search for and click on to get to your site, but today you can now see what average position that phrase or keyword comes up at! This…

  • The no-framework PHP MVC framework – Rasmus’ Toys Page

    In the end, the no-framework framework that Rasmus proposes isn’t so much of a framework as a coding style / approach, and he basically advocates rolling your own instead of refactoring someone else’s complicated framework. Still, some good points and worth checking out, good comments at the bottom too… Try to avoid using include_once and…

  • I just recovered over 7GB of disk space on my Powerbook G4 using these tips…

    I just found a bunch of files that could be safely deleted. This is the graphic of my disk usage pattern. I reclaimed up over 7GB of disk space – a lot of it in caches, old mailboxes that I had moved, and more. The WhatSize application was especially helpful, since it basically gives you…

  • Audacity crashed and all I got was this useless dialog message

    Man. So I was working editing the levels for the latest Christian Science podcast for Lafayette Square Christian Science Society when Audacity crashed. Save early, save often, have to remember that again with Audacity. Anyways, it spit out this oh-so-helpful (NOT) error dialog message: Warning Audacity found temporary files that were not deleted or saved…

  • 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…

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