Thursday, October 22, 2009

XRefresh

XRefresh.
Automatically refreshes a web page under development when the page is changed and saved.

Allan Jardine | Reflections | Rule

Allan Jardine | Reflections | Rule.
Just as useful - if not more so.

Allan Jardine | Reflections | Crosshair

Allan Jardine | Reflections | Crosshair
Really useful.

RedBean PHP ORM

RedBean PHP ORM

Processing.js

Processing.js
Nice-looking way of creating visualisations and interactive animations using the HTML5 canvas element and JavaScript.

Home - Pencil Project

Home - Pencil Project.
Something to give Balsamiq or Visio + paper prototyping UI stencils a run for their money?

Notable – The easiest way to give feedback on your website.

Notable – The easiest way to give feedback on your website.

Itemscript.org

Itemscript.org.
One to make a note of and read up about later.
Seems like a wrapper for JSON / Ajax data transfer?

Favicon Editor

Favicon Editor

FavIcon from Pics -- free favicon.ico for your website (animated, static, text, iPod icons)

FavIcon from Pics -- free favicon.ico for your website (animated, static, text, iPod icons)

Dynamic Dummy Image Generator - DummyImage.com

Dynamic Dummy Image Generator - DummyImage.com

DHTML eXtensions - professional AJAX components for advanced Web UI - in your PHP, JSP, .NET, ASP and ColdFusion applications

DHTML eXtensions - professional AJAX components for advanced Web UI - in your PHP, JSP, .NET, ASP and ColdFusion applications.
If we ever want an alternative to infragistics then this might be worth a look?

CSS Text Wrapper

CSS Text Wrapper ... err ... may be useful ... one day?

Open NASA - When Failure is our Best Option

Open NASA - When Failure is our Best Option

Panic - Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

Panic - Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X.
This looks great - shame I don't usually work on a Mac!

Clickframes

Clickframes is a way of defining a basic web application in xml and having a set of page specifications built for you from that xml document.

The theory is sound but it's not really prototyping as I'd see it. It seems more like a way to have people who think in xml write the spec and then translate it into a format that people who don't think in xml can understand.

Open Web Tools Directory

Mozilla has (recently) started the Open Web Tools Directory which collects together many (most?) of the useful tools, utilities and frameworks that make a web developer's job that bit more manageable.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Do URLs Matter?

As with so many questions, it depends.

Yes, there are some SEO benefits if the search engine in question can identify words in the URL that are also in the page.

However, it seems that whilst URLs matter a great deal to developers, end users just couldn't care less.

I'm also reminded of this entry in the PuTTY FAQ...