Sam’s random musings

Addicted to Cycling?:

You know you’re addicted to cycling if you understand most of these jokes. (No mention of endorphins, though. Too bad.)

Corinne found that for me. Thanks honey!

Ok I’m addicted too…

(Via TruerWords.)

CSS layouts: liquid, fluid, elastic, flexible, jello…:

Please note that this is not an exercise la Zen Garden, the aesthetic aspect is irrelevant here, the goal was to achieve many fluid layouts with the bare minimum: 5 content DIVs. a short stylesheet. no hacks.

This is a great set of 6 designs basically all starting with the same xhtml and just manipulating the css, cool

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Max Design - A webstandards checklist:

The term web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is ‘table-free sites’, for others it is ‘using valid code’. However, web standards are much broader than that. A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, DOM, MathML, SVG etc) and pursue best practices (valid code, accessible code, semantically correct code, user-friendly URLs etc)

Good place to start, standards good, sloppy bad

iBrowser:

Clever iPod-inspired navigation UI implemented using Ajax. Very promising. (Via Buzz Anderson.)

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This is cool

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

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p>phpRiot.com: Other Uses For Smarty:

On phpRiot.com today, there’s an interesting look at some “Other Uses for Smarty” - including managing emails set by your site. ….

Some of these “other situations” include the creation of RSS/XML feeds, building CSV files, making auto-generated SQL schemas, and PHP code templating… (0 comments)

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

Bug Bash:

So ever been to a meeting like this, oh the freedom to be Dana

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p>The baby name wizard: Cool Java based app to see how common a name is through the years

(Via Face.)

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p>Amy Hoy’s Blog: Design your Software - Please!:

Amy Hoy has this new post today with a look at some of her experiences with some of the “other Ajax toolkits” out there (besides Prototype).

She mentions some of the other frameworks out there - Sajax and JSPan - and some of the shortcomings that she found with each. Obviously, she seems to favor the Prototype framework, and I can’t say I blame her - it is a nice piece of software…

(Via AjaxDeveloper.org.)