Sam’s random musings

Smashing Magazine::

30 scripts for galleries, slideshows and lightboxes.

Wow that is a great list, some cool toys in there

(Via Dangerousmeta.)

Style-Say : CSS Style guide generator:

For a web designer, remembering the properties of all the CSS classes, IDs and elements that have been written, often over multiple stylesheets, can be a real task. Often developers need to keep referring back to their CSS to check the definitions, look at the properties and classes and find the right element. This is time wasted. Time that could be spent on more constructive endeavours.

This is a nice quick clean way to generate a style guide (it will be good for clients to see how their site will render when they add content)

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p>Notes from the Web Builder 2.0 Conference: “

AJAX Optimization

Scott Dietzen, President & CTO of Zimbra, Inc., talked about the three C’s of AJAX Optimization. They are:

• Combine - When possible, merge images, css, and Javascript files together. When dealing with AJAX, fewer requests are best. Scott mentioned Two ANT tasks called Jammer and ImageMerge in the Kabuki AJAX framework that help you combine images and CSS. The result is that you get sprite images like this one from the Yahoo! home page that use CSS to display the proper section of the larger image. Yes, the CSS gets generated for you, too.
• Compress - Use compression to save bandwidth and speed up downloads. Use JSMin or ShrinkSafe along with Apache’s mod_gzip.
• Cache - Why bother re-requesting static data when the browser can cache? Use FireFox plugins like TamperData to make sure caching is happening like it should.

Good little tips, and things to check

(Via Zend Developer Zone.)

Multiple IEs:

Just a quick note about a nice installer for running multiple versions of Internet Explorer (standalone). You can snag Multiple_IEs here. To be completely honest, this really isn’t a necessity beyond IE6 (because of the massive install base), so you can run it side by side with IE7.

Very useful to make a note of… someday I am sure I will need to care, right now just isn’t one of them

(Via Lockergnome Bytes.)

REST for toddlers:

100 Continue

“Mmm hmm…”

200 OK

“OK.”

201 Created

“You went pee-pee in the potty!”

(The real definitions might help if you don’t get them all.)

Funny click through if you want to see the rest… you have to be a real web geek parent to find this funny

(Via dive into mark.)

Keeping the cruft out of your release:

Sometimes during software development you need to hack something together temporarily just to see it working. You have no intention of leaving it like that.

couple of cool ideas, I use a class called ‘dev’ that borders in red 2 px rect.

(Via Signal vs. Noise.)

Spelling Cow: JS Spell Checker:

Spelling Cow allows you add a script tag, and spell check is enabled on your website. There are also some variables you can tweak too if advanced features are needed.

This means that you can add spell checking to your applications, but as the latest browsers have added inline spell check, is there use to it?

This is a neat tool and would probably be fairly easy to add…

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Collection of CSS Forms:

Smashing Magazine has scoured the web for modern CSS based forms.

In Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web-forms are becoming more and more important for the success of еру company. In the end, exactly those web-forms are responsible for the first contact with potential customers. Let’s take a look, which modern solutions a web-developer can use, designing his/her next css-based form.

This is a great collection of css form work tutorials and services that are really a fantastic resource!!!! (yes the collection is worth that many ! and it could probably rate a use of all CAPITALS as well)

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)