July 2011
2 posts
Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson... →
“This article looks at one way of cracking the problem of regression testing (retesting previously working parts of an application following a new build) a modern web application, using two superb…
Sheldon Brown's Elswick Page →
Sheldon Brown had a Tour Anglais!
June 2011
1 post
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter! →
“We’re drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter…”
September 2009
29 posts
WebsiteSpark - Home →
“Visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers - at no upfront cost!”
Goog News For Polar Bears.org →
Recycle your unwanted things for free, and get free stuff in your local community. Recycling is good for the environment and for the soul.
Dive Into HTML5 →
“Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits.”
Moneyterms: investment/finance... →
Useful glossary of finance jargon
Main Page - Reuters Financial Glossary →
“The Reuters Financial Glossary has been developed to give you quick and easy access to definitions of terms and concepts related to the financial markets.”
Spanish chicken with potatoes, garlic & sherry... →
“This dish is a great excuse to give sherry another try. And why not serve some alongside the dish, it matches brilliantly”
Birdhouse — A notepad for Twitter →
“Ever think of something for your Twitter that you don’t want to post right away? Birdhouse is the perfect place to put it.”
with Statement Considered Harmful » Yahoo! User... →
“If you canât read a program and be confident that you know what it is going to do, you canât have confidence that it is going to work correctly. For this reason, the with statement should be…
Compressing JS files as part of your build process... →
“Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project….
Yahoo! UI Library: YUI Compressor for .Net - Home →
“This is a .NET port of the Yahoo! UI Library’s YUI Compressor Java project. The objective of this project is to compress any Javascript and Cascading Style Sheets to an efficient level that works…
Public Sector Developer Weblog : Accessibility in... →
“One of the things we are asked repeatedly from our Federal customers is how to ensure web applications are 508 compliant.”
Verifying JavaScript with JSLint and Visual Studio... →
“Iâve put together my own ‘host’ for JSLint. It supports the enabling and disabling of all the options listed on the JSLint documentation page with command-line parameters and includes reasonable…
D.O.H. Unit Testing | The Dojo Toolkit →
“Dojo (from 0.9 onward) features a from-scratch unit testing harness, D.O.H., that’s both flexible, easy to use, and portable.”
JSpec - JavaScript Testing Framework →
“JSpec is a extremely small, yet very powerful testing framework. Utilizing its own custom grammar and pre-processor, JSpec can operate in ways that no other JavaScript testing framework can. This…
Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ -... →
“The primary focus is assisting HTML developers in understanding ARIA, its purpose, and how it relates to HTML and HTML development.”
Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in... →
“we will select a compression utility, learn how to use it at the command line, explore a useful automation feature in Visual Studio, and apply that to keep scripts combined and compressed with no…
List of unit testing frameworks - Wikipedia, the... →
“This page is a list of tables of code-driven unit testing frameworks for various programming languages. Some but not all of these are based on xUnit.”
JSCoverage - code coverage for JavaScript →
JSCoverage is a tool that measures code coverage for JavaScript programs.
QUnit - jQuery JavaScript Library →
“QUnit is the unit testrunner for the jQuery project.”
Response: This clampdown on home education doesn't... →
Fundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman
Children’s party on a budget « retro wife →
A kids’ party for £30 :)
Citrix Systems » Citrix Downloads » -- XenApp »... →
Use the âCitrix Online Plug-in for Macâ to access your hosted applications from your desktop or a web interface.
:: Emtec - Product ranges →
Movie Cube multimedia player Q120
HTML 5 And CSS3 Cheat Sheets Collection →
“here is a collection of HTML 5 and CSS3 cheat sheets”
Parenting: Don't Praise Your Children! |... →
“[Kids] know when they do well. By letting them come to this realization on their own, they learn to reinforce themselves and they don’t become praise junkies dependent on you for how they feel about…
Diaper-Free - Natural Life magazine - green family... →
“I am embarrassed to say that as an environmentally aware person, I did not realize that there was an alternative to the large ecological footprint that comes from any diapering method.”
Explaining JavaScript scope and closures -... →
“I thought Iâd try to explain something which many people struggle with: JavaScript scope and closures.”
flaviodeslandes - bamboo bicycle design →
“My name is Flavio Deslandes. I am a Brazilian Industrial Designer based in Denmark. My area of expertise is design with bamboo, in particular the bamboo bicycle.”
Autobulbs Direct Ltd →
“Car Lights, Car Bulbs, Headlights, Wiper Blades & Xenon Bulbs available for any manufacturer. Find yours today on Autobulbs Direct Ltd.”
August 2009
20 posts
Event Delegation versus Event Handling - how to... →
“This is not a new trick and has been in use in several big projects already. Talking to some people at dconstruct I found out however that some people know about it (ppk, to be exact), and others…
Faith and Theology: Megachurch worship: supersize... →
“But I think the function of the screen raises a much more interesting problem: not merely that the congregation is worshipping vicariously through the onstage performers, but that the entire worship…
Introduction to WAI ARIA - Opera Developer... →
“After reading this article, you’ll understand what ARIA is for, how to integrate it into your sites, and how you can use it now to make even the simplest of sites more accessible.”
Carsonified » 10 User Interface Design... →
“Itâs no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way.”
Managing UI Complexity | Brandon Walkin →
“Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of…
Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips →
“I’d call myself an “intermediate” jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I’ve learned over the past year.”
John Resig - Deep Profiling jQuery Apps →
“I’ve come up with a plugin that you can inject into a jQuery site that you own and see how the performance breaks down method-by-method.”
Best of OpenStreetMap →
Click the yellow stars…
FINK — SORT OF REVOLUTION — OUT NOW →
Nice acoustic folky stuff, including a remix by The Cinematic Orchestra
http://greyreverend.com/bio.html →
“Grey Reverend has been featured on Cinematic Orchestraâs Live at Royal Albert Hall and is currently working with them on a film score for a soon-to-be-released movie.”
WAI-ARIA Best Practices →
“This document specifies Best Practices for delivering accessible rich internet applications using WAI-ARIA [ARIA]”
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The internet's conscientious... →
the typical computer tends “to be designed by young male computer scientists and they tend not to understand the challenges it provides for groups of people they never meet”
The Real Dirt on Organic Food | Energy Bulletin →
“we should reject the simplistic notion that ‘natural is better’ and we should demand that groups like the Soil Association and other prominant environmental lobby groups such as Transition Towns…
Tough Questions to Help You Declutter -... →
“I make an investment of myself in every object, and that is why itâs hard for me to say that Iâm not attached to these objects.”
QuirksBlog: Delegating the focus and blur events →
“In the course of my ongoing event research, however, I found a way to delegate the focus and blur events, too.”
documentation →
“It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.”
Modernizr →
Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that…
How to Fix a Scratched CD (with video) - wikiHow →
“While commercial CD repair kits and CD refinishing machines are available, you may be able to repair the damage on your own with products you already have.”