Here is a comprehensive collection of online tools for web development.
Quite excited to find this particular tool: browserling.com. It’s an HTML5 application that lets you test a website in different browsers as a live session instead of just taking screenshots (works best in Chromium/Chrome).
Update 2013.04.26: we have published the jQuery version of this plugin, please see it if you prefer to use jQuery.
There are plenty of image slider and gallery scripts out there, but recently we had a pretty specific goal – to switch backgrounds of a website, and couldn’t find a good MooTools solution to accomplish it, so we had to create our own MooTools Class.
Here are the basic requirements:
So here it is:
Full screen functionality uses both JavaScript and CSS so if you want the full screen option to work, download the whole package and see our bare bones style.css. The CSS part is based on Perfect Full Page Background Image / CSS-Only Technique #2 from css-tricks.
Images used in this demo are copyrighted and only intended for this demo.
Further information, usage and options: Continue reading
An interesting screenshot from the Strike Back TV Series showing jQuery code in a Missile Guidance System.
via SawRub
Update 2014.02.10: Ubuntu 13.04 and newer users might want to check out the newer guide here.
To develop web applications we often need to set up subdomains under the localhost to accsess them locally like that:
http://project.localhost/
Here is a quick and pain-free way to do that: Continue reading
On September 14th Google Apps team announced that Internet Explorer 8 support is officially discontinued. That’s a big step towards the modern web forcing more users to update their obsolete software.
Very useful collection of modern stuff we should use in our projects.
All credit card PIN codes in the world leaked! Really, they have them all including yours!
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – awesome book about common programming design patterns in JS context. Plenty of of code including even some framework related examples.
Internet Explorer 7 Tax is fun, but here is a controversial one: UN’s global Internet tax on the world’s largest content providers (meaning Google, FB & Co.).
The whole thing has something to do with these content sites eating way too much bandwidth while being based in US so we don’t get enough this bandwidth-related money here in Europe. Anyway, if something like that goes through it might change the “look&feel” of our modern Internet as well as its openness.