"I want to..." or "I need to" or "How do I?" These are all questions we all ask all the time. This is a small collection of resources that will help to answer those questions. It is not complete, nor will it ever be. I will be adding to this on a regular basis, so feel free to bookmark it and come back and visit.
This article presents an open source JavaScript library that finally brings bookmarking and back button support to AJAX applications. By the end of this tutorial, developers will have a solution to an AJAX problem that not even Google Maps or Gmail possesses: robust, usable bookmarking and back and forward behavior that works exactly like the rest of the Web.
37 pages of AJAX presented using… you guessed it AJAX. Pretty cool and fluid, this tutorial contains lots of good information on AJAX.
Place CSS properties in short.
/* Position Is Everything */<br /> <br /> Modern browser bugs explained in detail!
Oh boy does the name say it all here. Also I feel that the editor here is right on the money with his choices.
Everything AJAX. Would love to subscribe to their podcasts, but there are still only 24 hours in a day.
Web-Dev-Bookmarks: News & Updates
Here`s a secret: not all truetype fonts are bad. Some of them are quite classy. The truth is you dont have to be rich and able to afford postscript fonts in order to look professional.<br /> <br /> I`ve collected 300 of my favorite truetype fonts that can be used for design works. Here they are free to download in .ttf format (works on both MacOSX and Windows machines), organized into the following categories.
20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts
The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience.
Really neat visual thesaurus.
blinkx is a tool for your PC that changes the way users interact with all kinds of information. Fundamentally, blinkx understands what you are looking for.<br /> <br /> blinkx reads what you have on your computer screen and automatically links you to related information - Web sites, the latest news on the Web, even documents and e-mails on your own computer. For the very first time, blinkx 3.5 offers users fully integrated search and a true single click search experience.<br /> <br /> Free and easy to download at approximately 6MB
Java will be dead like COBOL, not dead like Elvis. For the hardest enterprise problems, Java is safe for at least three to five years--things like sophisticated and scalable object relational mapping, two phased commit, and the like. Java is being threatened in a much more common, and I think important space: how do you build a simple web application that fronts a relational database? Especially a database schema that you control? This industry solves this particular problem over and over, and Java`s not very good at it. I think we`ll see some significant movement to Ruby on Rails this year.
Very good blog about driving innovation in business. However, it is focused largely on large companies.
Infogami is the Macintosh of building websites. Perhaps it`s a bit lofty of a goal, but we say aim high.
Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time.
ShareBigFile.com is a file hosting service that allows you to post a large file and send a linkto a recipient to allow them to easily retrieve the file. Size Limit: 1024 MB.
Enter your recipient`s email address, select your file, then click on the Send It button to send a link. Your privacy is guaranteed.
Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups
Musings, rants and thoughts of Jeff Clavier, a venture consultant and angel investor
Ben and Dion`s Ajax Mission
The Two-Way-Web is a vision for the Web as an easy writing and publishing environment. It`s not a new idea, in fact it`s the original vision of the Web as defined by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee who said in December 1997: "The intuitive editing interfaces which make authoring a natural part of daily life are still maturing."
There`s a lot of hype surrounding the latest Web development craze, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), and a considerable amount of skepticism about its usefulness in the business realm.<br /> <br /> This article, however, very clearly demonstrates the huge savings and benefits that can result from ajax implementations in websites.
Great blog covering everything web 2.0 and ajax related.
AJAX Matters is an informational site about AJAX (short for "Advanced Javascripting and XML" or "Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML") and how these technologies are applied to web development.
Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote — “One more thing…” This is awesome! New ipods, iTunes 6, and new TV-Shows available from the iTunes Music Store. When are they going to start adding the daily show! Please, please!
The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions. Auto-updated every 5 minutes, it uncovers the most relevant items from thousands of news sites and weblogs.
There is buzz that Microsoft and Yahoo will announce tomorrow that their instant messaging clients will beome interoperable. The catalyst seems to be the surge in Skype and Google Talk usage. Together MSN and Yahoo account for 44% of total IM usage today (not counting Skype and Google), and reach about 33.5 million monthly unique users..
VGMap is a new library created by Eyebeam R&D that allows designers, developers, and mapping geeks to overlay data on top of Google Maps in a richer way than is possible using their standard system. It is called VGMap because it adds vector-drawing capability to the already-awesome GMap API.
Good eye for the interesting tech stories of the day with a nice personal touch. Also tips and tricks for non-geeks.
Articles on Software Technology and Investing
Good cross-section of what`s happening in technology with a focus on blogs. Frequent updates from this BusinessWeek production.
BusinessWeek editors on the breaking stories that affect technology businesses. They know their stuff.
Apple "inside info" and reports, with a newsy format.
A serious yet irreverent look at all things Apple. Coverage is extended to Google and the recording industry.
An indispensable source for HDTV news, updates and advice from BuyingHDTV.com.
We needed drop shadows that would be as simple to add to a page as possible. With that in mind, yDSF was created to meet the following requirements:<br /> <br /> <br>* Pure CSS (no tables)</br><br /> <br>* As little extra markup as possible</br><br /> <br>* Scalable to arbitrary width/height boxes, </br>without special-case images<br /> <br>* Best-of-breed display on modern CSS2+ browsers (Mozilla, Safari)</br><br /> <br>* Reasonable fallback for Internet Explorer (5+)</br>
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