Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

MySQL was initially chosen as their database of choice b... simple, fast and reliable. All told, they have about 60... runtime experience without data loss or corruption due t... like most megascale services they often end up using MyS... key<->value

The browser has become the preferred way for delivering ... because it allows easy deployment across operating syste... application maintenance. Plus, the modern programming la... the browser enable rapid application design and development.
The Adobe®

You probably already know how to use media-specific CSS ... suitable layout for the printed page.
But how great would it be to be able to go further and p ...

Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking ab...
example sprites
As game complexity increased, techniques developed to ma ...
And what does this have to do with the web?
... the associated “before” and “after” link states.

Quercus is Caucho Technology's fast, open-source, 100% J... of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5).

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Heatmap View
"Wow! Just wow. Crazy Egg will absolutely blow you away."
Visualize your website's analytics
Crazy Egg lets you visualize every click your visitors m ...
Start creating heatmaps for your website. Sign-up takes ...

HTML5 offers a lot of exciting new features in the realm... my favorite new additions to forms in HTML5 is the place... Placeholder text is the “hint” or “example” text...
<input type="text" placeholder="Start typing to begin s ...
The only ne

Creating equal-height columns with CSS is sometimes a be... the hassle of faux columns, “clear” divs and the res... of jQuery, you can easily equalize the heights of any gr...

In certain instances, not everyone views every portion o... online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of i... this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet ...
It’s a simple problem of resolution. Images are always ...
Back in 200

HP Rules is a rule engine that lets you separate conditi...
This article demonstrates how to:
* Install PHP Rules and execute rules stored in text ...
* Create your own rules, starting from a particular case
... * Evaluate a rule stored in a

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encoura... development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed four years ago by a fast-moving online-news op ...

Dojo Offline is an open-source toolkit that makes it eas...
* An offline widget that you can easily embed in you ...
* A sync framework to help you store actions done wh ...
* Automatic network and application-availability det ...
... ion wit

If you’ve used the internet, you’ve probably had the... unwanted emails or intrusive popup adverts. You might ha... virus attack or been the victim of online fraud.
Increasingly the internet is being targeted by criminals ...
This is why the governm

Despite the tabbed browsing feature, Firefox otherwise i...
There is generally a tag for doing this: autocomplete = ...
Adding it to the input tag: Firefox still autofills!
Removing "address" in lang_main for related input fields ...
... pretty useless

These pages are all about XSLT, an XML-based language fo... set of XML into another set of XML, or into HTML. Of cou... sorts of other pages around that cover XSLT. Jeni's XSLT... dedicated to helping people understand and make the most...

JSON-RPC is a stateless, light-weight remote procedure c... Primarily this specification defines several data struct... around their processing. It is transport agnostic in tha... be used within the same process, over sockets, over http... various mes

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal...
Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

JsMath is a collection of JavaScript programs that make ... display mathematics within web pages. It works across mu... and hardware platforms, without the need for additional ... plugins on the part of the user. (It helps, however, if ... a set of ma

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are an important part o... infrastructure that are frequently used without a full u... what’s happening behind the scenes. You’ll hear peop... we put that on the CDN” or “make sure static assets ... when they h

Machines, including the likes of search engines, content... countless applications, are increasingly consuming web c...
So what does this mean for designers and developers? Wor ...
Research has shown that brands that have jumped on the A ...
Then I real

Nvu is an open source project and we encourage all who w... involved.
Nvu is in the early stages of development and we are get ...
Nvu's development site (http://www.nvudev.org) will also ...

Goals
“Make a break with the past and go in a new direct ...
A well designed concept supports usability and acces ...
Think! Being innovative and creative ensures our sta ...
... Really nice art, acceptance through beauty (sexy!) :-)

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

SmartMarkUP is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript lib... you to turn any textarea into a fancy markup editor. HTM... syntax, BBCode or any other desired markup language can ... and/or adjusted to your preferences and business needs. ... doesn't dep

PHP SandBox
Run and Edit PHP/HTML/JS with this online interpreter

There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene

Real Studio is a full-featured, cross-platform software ... suited to creating a wide range of applications, from ut... enterprise-class applications. Real Studio is the only o... cross-platform software development tool that enables us... to create p

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if (window.sidebar) // firefox
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In any event, we knew HTML5 was, in fact, ready, and we ... So we took it upon ourselves to rebuild the challenging ... Facebook mobile application in HTML5 in our spare time. ... introduce you to Sencha Fastbook, a technology proof of ... how fast HT