CSS Selector compatibility tester
October 11, 2007
Forget all compatibility tables: this JavaScript tool will give you a live view of the CSS selectors your browser supports, including CSS3 selectors. Results are quite interesting, you’ll never guess which browser passes the most tests successfully…
Subversion 1.4 Released!!
October 11, 2007
Eargerly awaited by some, especially those using TortoiseSVN and other source control clients. Subversion 1.4 is now available.
Phormer : a PHP-Based PhotoGallery Manager application
October 11, 2007
Phormer, unlike most of the other gallery mangers tools that require MySQL or any other high-level Databases, uses its own XML database.
Configuring Rails Environments: The Cheat Sheet
October 11, 2007
A fairly exhaustive list of the options allowed when configuring a Rails application.
Digg.com created for only $200.00
October 11, 2007
In 2003, Kevin Rose had a big idea. He went to Elance.com to post a project and look for a PHP programmer, he selected Owen Byrne (Elance username: permafrost) and worked with him to build Digg.com for $10 hr.
Listen to Kevin’s presentation
Extracting meta data from Firebird system tables
October 11, 2007
The site lists example queries to retrieve information about tables, views, fields, indexes, constraints, triggers, generators, stored procedures, functions and users defined in the meta data of a Firebird database.
Convert HTML to PDF with PHP
October 11, 2007
Handy for PHP developers looking to generate PDFs from their HTML content: dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter written entirely in PHP5. It has no dependencies on external libraries (e.g. html2ps) and it supports CSS 2.1.
Ruby Unit Test Sadism with Heckle
October 11, 2007
Heckle is a Ruby mutation tester inspired by Jester. It modifies your code and runs your tests to make sure they fail. The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests don’t notice, either that code isn’t being covered or it doesn’t do anything.
Tour de France - Live Google Maps Tracks
October 11, 2007
A cool Google Maps and Tour de France mash-up: Displays driver’s data live on a interactive map. And you can can even follow the bike’s position! Heart beat, speed, stress factor, distance, power and current position are tracked. Check it right on time 
How to correctly insert a Flash into XHTML
October 11, 2007
I found this to be helpful while coding one of my clients site’s in that I had never been required to make Flash fully compliant by W3C Standards. Hopefully this can help some others too =D!
Hilarious Windows 2000 Source Code Review
October 11, 2007
Two years ago the source code of Windows 2000 (the basis of XP) was leaked. It’s good code… but who knew Microsoft programmers swore so much?
The question of why manhole covers are typically round, at least in the U.S., was made notorious by Microsoft, who began asking it as a job-interview question. Originally meant as a psychological assessment of how one approaches a question with more than one “right” answer, the problem exerts a strange fascination on people.
Summer of Rails
October 11, 2007
Essentially a badge for folks learning and deploying their first Ruby on Rails applications during the Summer of 2006. Nice logo!
Ruby on Rails Getting Started
October 11, 2007
This is the first chapter of a book that runs you through installing Ruby on Rails on all major operating systems, and shows you how to do your first application too. This chapter has been released for free and the author hopes it helps many people start using Rails who wanted to try it out.
Version 2.0 of JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow Javascript Library is out
October 11, 2007
The new version of this impressive little tool features useability improvements, major code rewrite (now using MooTools and objects), graphic changes and bugfixes.
As always, this lib provides a simple way to install great looking slideshow or showcases to your website, in less than 20kb of javascript code.
New Human-Test: KittenAuth
October 11, 2007
Say goodbye to annoying “are you a human being?” human-checkers that make you decipher cryptic fonts on cryptic backgrounds.
And say hello to kittens!
Its a win-win situation. Out with the annoying and in with the cute!
Shiny Scriptaculous Javascript Effects Cheat Sheet
October 11, 2007
Colorful, downloadable PDF cheat sheet for the Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/) visual effects library. Site also has cheat sheets for various aspects of Ruby on Rails.
Ruby and Rails Book Roundup
October 11, 2007
Great list of books related to Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
October 11, 2007
There are quite a few AJAX demos and examples on the web right now. While these are invaluable to learning AJAX, some people need a bit more information than just a raw piece of code. The following is a list of the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials that I’ve found over the past year.
Data Generator for Developers
October 11, 2007
“This little program lets you generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software. Try messing around with it: you’ll soon figure it out! I’ve had to limit it to a maximum of 5000 results, since server resources are limited.”
