Programming Archives

• 29 Jun 2009

  jQuery Mother Lode

  Loads of jQuery tutorials, tips and resources. 55 of them, to be exact.

• 4 Jan 2009

  Programming Who's Who

  Mug shots of the people who created the programming languages we love to hate: PL People.

• 31 May 2008

  O'Reilly's Programming Menagerie

  Thank you Rodrick Brown for making the O'Reilly library available online.

• 25 Nov 2007

  Tooltips

  More tooltips than you can shake a stick at from css-only solutions to fancy javascript implementations. Via Smashing Magazine.

• 30 Nov 2006

  Forms up the Wazoo

  I really heart Smashing Magazine's well-curated collections of practical resources for designers. This time around, I stumbled upon a treasure trove of web forms resources: CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions.

• 1 Oct 2006

  Project Runway Meets Hack Day

  All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize for their entry, Blogging in Motion, a photoblogging system in the guise of a handbag. For fans of Project Runway, you'll notice that one of the team members is Diana Eng, the season 2 wearables mistress who is clearly no stranger to 24-hour deadlines with crazy creative constraints.

• 18 Aug 2006

  CSS3 Sneak Peek

  I got pretty excited about the proposed CSS3 column spec. Here is a sneak peek at a few more proposed features in CSS3: CSS3 Preview. Especially exciting: rounded borders! But, do we really need CSS support for text drop shadows?

• 16 Aug 2006

  DIY Heatmaps

  Create your own heatmap based on user clicks. The Definitive Heatmap

• 29 Jul 2006

  Compute! Magazine Archive

  OMG! I just found this Classic Computer Magazine Archive: Compute! Magazine and I nearly cried. This is how I created my first (infinite) loop, my first game. This is how nerdy kids like me...

• 29 Jul 2006

  WYSIWYG Web2.0 Editor

  Just found Aptana -- a free WYSIWYG XHTML/CSS editor for those of us who don't mind taking shortcuts. It comes preloaded with a number of javascript libraries such as Prototype, script.aculo.us, Dojo, etc. Available for Windows, Mac even Linux. Via blog.wired.com .

• 16 Jul 2006

  Free AJAX Online Course

  10-Week Free AJAX Programming (with Passion!) Online Course offered by Sang Shin beginning August 2, 2006. Prerequisites include...

• 8 Jul 2006

  Code Snippet Motherload

  Snipplr Code 2.0 is searchable community-driven database for source code snippets, similar to koders (mentioned last 11/04).

• 8 Jul 2006

  W3C's Draft Spec for Columns in CSS3

  The proposed spec outlines a more simplified approach to defining columns with new column properties such as column-count, column-width, column-rule and column-gap: Multi Column layout in CSS.

• 4 Jun 2006

  Ignore whitespace = "false"

  Programming language made up entirely of whitespace characters such as spaces, tabs and new lines as part of the syntax! Whitespace. A bit too minimalist I think.

• 31 May 2006

  State of the Union, Deconstructed

  Think of the President's State of the Union Address as the nation's zeitgeist for the pulsepoints of the American people. (Okay, so in some cases, you may have to read between the lines a bit.) And so it makes for rich material for new media artists...

• 28 May 2006

  Pixel to Em Converter

  Nice little tool helps you convert your CSS markup from pixels to ems: Em Calculator.

• 25 Apr 2006

  Looking to Work on a Mobile Social App?

  Friends at Kamida -- the folks who brought you Socialight -- are hiring. They are offering internship opportunities for developers and designers and are also looking for a full-time Lead Engineer. See details...

• 14 Apr 2006

  Rounded Corners Generator

  Sitepoint: Generate Corners (beta) does just what it says. It generates CSS-based rounded corners with no javascript. It does, however, require four small images (GIFs).

• 28 Mar 2006

  Nice Collection of CSS sites

  A fairly deep, well-curated collection of CSS layout and tutorial sites: Layout-palooza : Top CSS Layout Download Sites, Hacks, Galleries and Tricks from eConsultant. Too bad it doesn't have an RSS feed to notify users if/when new links are added.

• 25 Mar 2006

  Rounded Corners Reloaded

  A big list of tutorials on CSS rounded corners CSS Rounded Corners 'Roundup' from Smiley Cat Web Design. Added 26 March 2006: Generate anti-aliased rounded corners using CSS only without images or javascript using Spiffy Corners.

• 19 Sep 2005

  Mommy, where does spam come from?

  Thanks to Google Maps and Mailinator, now we know: http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html...

• 22 Aug 2005

  Good Behaviour

  Here's a way to use AJAX to keep things clean. Your javascript markup, that is. Behaviour uses CSS selectors to keep your markup tidy and readable. Definitely earns a good housekeeping seal of approval!...

• 19 Jul 2005

  Easy with that Greasemonkey

  Big oops as a major security hole about Greasemonkey is exposed. When using GM_xmlhttpRequest, it leaves your hard drive's contents readable....

• 14 Apr 2005

  Google Map Hacks

  Ran across this entry from Engadget on how to make your own annotated multimedia Google map. You can, for instance, scrape Craig's list and display the results in Google Maps....

• 14 Apr 2005

  CSS Image Gallery

  More CSS fun! I've done a few galleries in javascript (such as this one and in Flash. I'll definitely have to try this CSS image gallery....

• 3 Apr 2005

  Step N Fetchit

  Firefox introduces link pre-fetching: a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after...

• 18 Mar 2005

  Rounded Corners in CSS?

  Yep, it IS possible! Banish those sharp corners and adopt curvier, friendlier corners! Here's a short list of tutorials: » Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images » Sliding Doors" Box--Rounded Corners for All » CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners &...

• 12 Feb 2005

  Address Book & Google Maps

  From MacOSXHints: Applescripts that allow you to get the Google Map view of an address in your Mac Address Book....

• 12 Feb 2005

  CSS Image Mapping

  Nice implementation of image maps using CSS. Then again, I don't even remember the last time I used an image map...maybe 1999?...