Let’s be honest – managing a database isn’t terribly exciting. But you still want to use a product that looks half-decent and is intuitive to use. SQL Buddy was designed to meet the demands of modern web developers. Oh, and did I mention that its completely open source and free for everyone to use?
The easier [...]
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So, looks like JavaFX is finally arriving.
It was first announced at JavaOne in 2007 (yes, seven) and it now looks they are ready to let it fly.
The JavaFX part of the Sun site has been somewhat barren for ages but it has been updated with some previews and stuff.
I was thinking that it might be [...]
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As much as I love Wordpress, and that’s a lot, I can’t bring myself to accept the state of the presentation layer.
Have a look at a Wordpress template’s index.php - it’s usually a big plate of code soup. It’s a mess, it’s difficult to read and a pain to debug. It gets particularly bad when [...]
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Douglas Crockford would like to see a hash= attribute to aid security and performance:
“Any HTML tag that accepts a src= or href= attribute should also be allowed to take a hash= attribute. The value of a hash attribute would be the base 32 encoding of the SHA of the object that would be retrieved. [...]
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IT Mill Testing Tools records all interaction between user and application and saves it for later use. To ensure correct application behavior, assertion points can be added simply by selecting the relevant GUI elements. Testers and developers can then replay the recorded tests and simulate the actions of the original user.
As web application development is [...]
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Smashing Magazine is a blog that is full of great design information. It’s mostly web design - stuff like CSS and so on but they also cover more traditional design elements, such as these font collections:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-for-professional-design/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/20/60-brilliant-typefaces-for-corporate-design/
If you were a typeface, this would be porn.
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It’s a pain in the nuts if you forget your mySQL root password. Here’s an easy way to reset it:
1) Stop any running mySQL deamons
2) Open a text editor and create a new file with the follownig line in it:
SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@’localhost’ = PASSWORD(’<your new password>’);
3) Run the mySQL deamon and use the –init-file [...]
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WebsiteGrader from Hubspot is an online tool that ranks your website for online marketing effectiveness. It gives you hints about easy, mostly non-technical, things you can do to make sure your blog/site reaches the widest audience possible.
http://www.websitegrader.com/Default.aspx
This site ranks at 77% and needs some work! But I’m lazy…..
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AjaxRain.com has many, many web scripts that you can pick up and use. According to the title of the home page, they have 921 scripts and counting.
There’s stuff there for all your favourite frameworks including JQuery, Moo, Protoype, etc.
There’s a handy (and big) tag cloud on each page that makes it easy to search on [...]
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dhteumeuleu.com have released a really nice interactive 3D image gallery.
http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/
I’m thinking it may be possible to modify this script to be used as a website logo. You cold grab the letters for the logo from Flickr and then display them using this script. Hovering around with the mouse would still spin the letters around. Clicking [...]
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