Ma.gnolia: Simon Scarfe's Bookmarks

Automatically Preload Images from CSS with jQuery

frowned — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:06:19 PDT

Plugin to preload css-linked images. Hella-useful.

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Tags: css, images, preload, jquery, plugin

Form Analytics Opens To The Public

frowned — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:14:12 PDT

ClickTale have a nice little form analytics package, which looks to give decent form / shopping cart diagnostics.

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Tags: analytics, forms, clicktale

Scaling Fast

frowned — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:58:40 PDT

What's worse than getting Dugg? Getting Yahoo'd, by the sounds of it. Brilliant tale of scaling a Ruby on Rails app proper fast.

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Tags: RoR, Scaling, Yahoo

Linux Commands I hardly knew

frowned — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:11:53 PDT

This has been doing the rounds, and while most of it's old-hat (& to bg tasks is shell-scripting 101), there's some cool new stuff in there (Alt+. as an "inline" alternative to $_ is fantastically useful).

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Tags: bash, shell, scripting, commands

BBC - Radio Labs - Wikipedia + Lucenes MoreLikeThis = useful bits about the bits?

frowned — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:18:15 PDT

the BBC radio labs guys (do they ever do any proper work?!) produce this ace proof of concept, using Lucene's MoreLikeThis tool to extract categories from Wikipedia.

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Tags: wikipedia, lucene, term extraction

SproutCore » home

frowned — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:18:19 PDT

proper attractive JS UI framework

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Tags: javascript, ui, framework

iBanjo » Blog Archive » Programmer Insecurity

frowned — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:45:36 PDT

Ignore the DVCS FUD and this is a brilliant article, encouraging you to separate your ego from your code.

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Tags: development, methodology, sourcecode

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages - Six Revisions

frowned — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:15:26 PDT

a surprisingly not-crap "top x" list of performance-testing tools

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Tags: performance, testing, firefox

My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage

frowned — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:47:18 PDT

really useful tool for you unfortunates still on Windows.

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Tags: windows, IE, browser testing

Googles Old Favicon – Userscripts.org

frowned — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:31:05 PDT

Proof that greasemonkey is the saviour of the web.

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Tags: google, favicon, greasemonkey

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

frowned — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:18:14 PDT

some nice wireframe stencils

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Tags: wireframes, stencils, omnigraffle, visio, svg

mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

frowned — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:19:53 PDT

[ this is awesome ]

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Tags: photos, projects

How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 2: Interlude - Coding the Wheel

frowned — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:26:39 PDT

Part two of James Devlin's uber-fantastic series on poker-bot programming.

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Tags: poker, bots, ai, programming

About Validator.nu

frowned — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:01:17 PDT

This could be particularly useful for CI HTML validation. Something which the W3C perl version struggles at.

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Tags: validation, html, CI

mariogg7.jpg (JPEG Image, 528x1392 pixels) - Scaled (43%)

frowned — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:11:55 PDT

absolutely bloody genius letter to Metro

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Tags: metro, mario kart, wii, bananas

sontek ( John M. Anderson ) » Python with a modular IDE (Vim)

frowned — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:51:45 PDT

loads of python / vim integration tips that were completely new to me. .vimrc porn!

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Tags: vim, python, ide

ugleah

frowned — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:22:29 PDT

Some really useful IA / UX material.

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Tags: User Experience, Information Architecture

ID Selector - Making OpenID easier

frowned — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:32:19 PDT

nice attempt at making OpenId more user friendly

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Tags: openId

#477454 - Insulting source code - Debian Bug report logs

frowned — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:30:33 PDT

possibly the funniest "bug" ever reported

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Tags: bugs, debian, open source

politics, twitter and accessibility

frowned — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:21:18 PDT

Bookmarked this cos I reckon Carl would be interested in it (I don't even know if he has this feed). About politics in the web2.0 age

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Tags: politics, twitter

Mark Gregory Turansky » Better JavaScript Templates

frowned — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:45:45 PDT

JSP-style templating implemented in pure JS. As browsers get faster / better JS engines / renderers, this type of thing will be becoming far more important. Let's shift all of that ghastly layout mangling to the client, save ourselves some loops!

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Tags: javascript, JSP, templates