#development (766 links)
Allows you to carry your whole webpage editor with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
- SitePoint Blogs » Using SVN for Web Development sitepoint.com
CVS is quite dated and Subversion (SVN) introduced some handy features (atomic transactions, Apache piggybacking, more convenient branching/tagging, tons of other improvements), we chose to go with SVN. The big question was: how to use it correctly?
"In a matter of minutes, you can buy a sheep, a goat or a brood of chickens. But they won't be delivered to you or the person you're buying a present for. Instead, they'll get a brilliant animal model, while FARM-Africa will give the real animal to a poor
CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.
Sweet Tiles
"In my work with unobtrusive JavaScript, I've found that by far the most common action I take is "registering" a script to be executed once the page has finished loading. There are a number of ways of doing this"
- Out of Hanwell outofhanwell.com
Check all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes without actually running the script or opening the web page.
A quick yet detailed guide on how to set up a very easy-to-use development environment for Ruby On Rails. This guide is for Windows users but there's no reason that it couldn't be adapted for Linux users as well.
- Sam Ruby: Rails Confidence Builder intertwingly.net
Bookmark [favelet] to immediately apply IE7 to any HTML page
- Charl van Niekerk's Blog: The 'lang' Attribute charlvn.blogspot.com
After spending some time reading about FIR, I thought it would be interesting to turn the debate on its head by reverting to the discarded <img /> element.
- B&T's Tips & Scripts tips-scripts.com
A collection of Tips & Scripts to help you build a better website. The page is targeted towards the native Apache PHP MySQL environment.
- Extreme Web Development | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
The best known agile methodology is Extreme Programming (XP) and it provides some very interesting ideas for the web development world.
- Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes joelonsoftware.com
Best Working Conditions → Best Programmers → Best Software → Profit!
an OO PHP framework with the core modules licensed under BSD
The importance of subtle clues to indicate change
- RailFrog - CMS on Rails railfrog.com
- O'Reilly Radar > Ruby on Rails, and the Rails Beta Book radar.oreilly.com
- ONLamp.com: Ajax on Rails onlamp.com
This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.
Determine if you need hacks, how to manage them effectively if so, and which hacks you can employ to solve a range of common compatibility problems.
- Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft's Source Destruction System highprogrammer.com
There are many fine solutions for revision control systems. SourceSafe isn't one of them.
- What is information architecture? steptwo.com.au
Discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
- Digital Web Magazine - Creating a Site Design Plan digital-web.com
- Regular Expression Tutorial - Learn How to Use Regular Expressions regular-expressions.info
- JavaScriptTemplates - TrimPath - Trac trimpath.com
A lightweight GPL open-source component that lets you have template-based programming (like PHP/ASP/JSP) while running in a web browser