Like a lot of developers, we start every HTML project with the same set of HTML and CSS templates. We’ve been using these files for a long time and we’ve progressively added bits and pieces to them as our own personal best practices have evolved. …
This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance), you can follow him on twitter. How do you scale an AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure? This article will give you a detailed reply in two parts: the tools you can use to make the most of Amazon’s dynamic approach, and the architectural model you should adopt for a scalable infrastr …
Frame is a modular CSS framework that supports: Layout, Typography, Forms, Code, Table, Reset, and Print styling. It is HTML5 compatible, and provides default styles and support for HTML5 elements. Frame is accompanied by an online tool that allows you to easily generate your own build (in case you don’t need to use all the features). …
You’ve been seeing it for a while now with Google’s Reader, Gmail, and most recently, on Facebook. Probably, you, too, would like to write RESTful evented JavaScript applications. Well, fellow developers, meet Sammy.js, a tiny JavaScript framework built on top of jQuery. Sammy utilizes the URL hash (#) to allow you to create single page AJAX applic …
I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve heard this phrase: “don’t worry about scaling your web application, worry about visitor (or customer) acquisition.” My response to this is always that you don’t need to choose one or the other, you can do both! In this post, I’m going to go over some of the strategies I’ve used to architect web appli …
jQuery Mobile is a Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets. It is a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built w …
PHP_CodeBrowser is a tool that creates good looking web pages from your code and annotates them with problems found by checkstyle, pmd and others. We have covered the release of PHP_CodeBroser version 0.1.0-alpha some months ago, see this post. Now, …
Hace unos días me vi en la necesidad de implementar en una web un proceso que puede tardar uno o dos minutos dependiendo de varios factores. El problema reside en que es un proceso que inicia el usuario y el usuario normalmente es impaciente, por lo …
Animated Table Sort is a plugin that allows you to animatedly sort a table based on a column’s <td>s, or on the content/value of a child/descendant element within those <td>s. The various <td>s fly to their new homes, giving a nice …
Recently we’ve seen a lot of activity in the graph database world. Better understanding the space will help us make smarter decisions, so I’ve decided to reach out to the main players in the market and run a series of interviews about their projects …
