WebDev

10 Essential Toolkits for iPad Wireframing - UX Movement

2011-09-27T09:45:00.000+01:00

10 Essential Toolkits for iPad Wireframing - UX Movement

Flame Painter

2011-09-13T14:03:00.000+01:00

I thought I'd saved a link to Flame Painter - an online image generator created in Flash that allows you to 'draw' using semi-random flame-type effects.

Spent far too long searching and trawling back through my posts before accepting the fact that I'd completely failed to make a note of it when I first came across it back in (probably) 2008.

So I'm fixing that!

7 Things I Love About Sinatra - RubySource

2011-08-10T16:21:00.000+01:00

7 Things I Love About Sinatra - RubySource

Story Points Are Dead! (Long Live Story Points?) | Cory Foy

2011-06-28T10:32:00.000+01:00

Story Points Are Dead! (Long Live Story Points?) | Cory Foy

AlternativeTo - Alternatives To The Applications You Want To Replace

2011-06-14T09:35:00.000+01:00

AlternativeTo - Alternatives To The Applications You Want To Replace

Really useful site, especially when you're used to working on one OS (e.g. Windows) and need to find equivalent software for another OS (e.g. Mac).

Launcher Icons | Android Developers

2011-04-15T11:59:00.000+01:00

Launcher Icons | Android Developers

lorempixum: Placeholder images for every case | Konigi

2011-04-11T09:51:00.000+01:00

lorempixum: Placeholder images for every case | Konigi

Tutorial: iPhone SQLite Encryption With SQLCipher | Mobile Orchard

2011-04-05T16:44:00.001+01:00

Tutorial: iPhone SQLite Encryption With SQLCipher | Mobile Orchard

SQLCipher - Open Source Full Database SQLite Encryption

2011-04-05T16:44:00.000+01:00

SQLCipher - Open Source Full Database SQLite Encryption

Sketchy Illustrator wireframes > Matthew Rea Design

2011-04-05T15:00:00.000+01:00

Sketchy Illustrator wireframes > Matthew Rea Design

Creating Web Design Wireframes: Tools, Resources, and Best Practices | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

2011-04-04T13:48:00.000+01:00

Creating Web Design Wireframes: Tools, Resources, and Best Practices | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

EightShapes Unify

2011-04-04T13:20:00.000+01:00

EightShapes Unify

There are also iPhone stencils from Yahoo! for this.

10 Useful jQuery Plugins | Resources

2011-03-31T09:49:00.000+01:00

10 Useful jQuery Plugins | Resources

Braingle: 'Relax the Jaw' Mentalrobics Article

2011-03-24T09:15:00.000Z

Braingle: 'Relax the Jaw' Mentalrobics Article

The mystery of the shrinking story: the decreasing size of a user story and Agile development�s drift into big-up-front-design

2011-02-28T14:26:00.000Z

The mystery of the shrinking story: the decreasing size of a user story and Agile development's drift into big-up-front-design

How to Write a Generic Form Update Detection Function in JavaScript � JavaScript & CSS � SitePoint Blogs

2011-02-28T09:19:00.000Z

How to Write a Generic Form Update Detection Function in JavaScript - JavaScript & CSS - SitePoint Blogs

30 Gorgeous iPhone App Interfaces & Icons | iPhone.AppStorm

2011-02-23T15:40:00.001Z

30 Gorgeous iPhone App Interfaces & Icons | iPhone.AppStorm

Tapbots — Robots for your iPhone & iPod Touch

2011-02-23T15:40:00.000Z

Tapbots — Robots for your iPhone & iPod Touch

Personal Blocklist (by Google) - Chrome Web Store

2011-02-15T10:42:00.000Z

Personal Blocklist (by Google) - Chrome Web Store

Dr Dobbs - Dr. Dobb's Agile Newsletter

2011-02-10T13:34:00.000Z

Dr Dobbs - Dr. Dobb's Agile Newsletter

The Dire Consequences of Fixed-Price IT Projects.

Agile Requirements Modeling

2011-02-10T13:33:00.001Z

Agile Requirements Modeling

Comparing Approaches to Budgeting and Estimating Software Development� Projects

2011-02-10T13:33:00.000Z

Comparing Approaches to Budgeting and Estimating Software Development Projects

Agile Project Planning Tips

2011-02-10T13:32:00.000Z

Agile Project Planning Tips

Mobify—The Leading Mobile Web Platform for E-commerce & Publishing

2011-02-03T10:29:00.000Z

Mobify—The Leading Mobile Web Platform for E-commerce & Publishing

Add the Quick Launch Bar to the Taskbar in Windows 7 - How-To Geek

2011-01-19T16:05:00.000Z

Add the Quick Launch Bar to the Taskbar in Windows 7 - How-To Geek

Xcode Objective-C Macros Cheatsheet For iPhone Programmers

2011-01-18T15:17:00.000Z

Xcode Objective-C Macros Cheatsheet For iPhone Programmers

Replace diff/merge tool in Visual Studio Team System with WinMerge | paulbouwer.com

2011-01-17T10:18:00.000Z

Replace diff/merge tool in Visual Studio Team System with WinMerge | paulbouwer.com

Pivotal Tracker - Features Tour

2010-12-20T14:30:00.000Z

Pivotal Tracker - Features Tour

Visual WIP

2010-11-26T23:02:00.000Z

Visual WIP

TargetProcess v.2.16 - Lead and Cycle time, Kanban Board on Program level

2010-11-26T23:01:00.001Z

TargetProcess v.2.16 - Lead and Cycle time, Kanban Board on Program level

David J. Anderson and Associates - A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering

2010-11-26T23:01:00.000Z

David J. Anderson and Associates - A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering

iPhone/iPad App Development Melbourne, iPhone/iPad Application Developer | Como Group

2010-11-26T20:27:00.000Z

iPhone/iPad App Development Melbourne, iPhone/iPad Application Developer | Como Group

Download LINQPad

2010-11-24T17:36:00.000Z

Download LINQPad

Intervals Pricing and Plans :: hosted project management, time tracking, and task management software for small business

2010-11-20T15:43:00.000Z

Intervals Pricing and Plans :: hosted project management, time tracking, and task management software for small business

Usability Resources to Win Arguments | Webdesigner Depot

2010-11-15T08:56:00.000Z

Usability Resources to Win Arguments | Webdesigner Depot

Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m

2010-11-15T08:43:00.000Z

Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m

iPhone-style sortable icon images - James Edwards (brothercake) & jQuery UI

2010-11-12T15:36:00.001Z

iPhone-style sortable icon images - James Edwards:

main article

demo

Alternative version using jQuery UI (but no keyboard support AFAIK and the transitions don't seem as slick)
http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/#display-grid

Limited WIP Society - Home of Kanban for Software Development

2010-11-12T08:52:00.000Z

Limited WIP Society - Home of Kanban for Software Development

mod_pagespeed for Apache

2010-11-05T14:10:00.000Z

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache

Research: Spammy Email Design Mistakes | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

2010-11-01T13:44:00.000Z

Research: Spammy Email Design Mistakes | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE

2010-10-27T15:59:00.000+01:00

CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE

OffiSync

2010-10-14T10:25:00.000+01:00

OffiSync links Microsoft Office with Google Docs. Presume this means you get offline editing capability for Google docs (which was removed in the latest version of docs), but haven't tested this yet. Looks good though. Free version too.

SQL JOIN - SQL Tutorial

2010-10-12T13:11:00.000+01:00

SQL JOIN - SQL Tutorial

Stowe Boyd - The Difference Between UI and UX

2010-10-12T12:47:00.000+01:00

Stowe Boyd - The Difference Between UI and UX

Fly-in-the-urinal testing.

Easy Mail Delivery with a SMTP Smart Host - Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

2010-10-04T10:51:00.000+01:00

Easy Mail Delivery with a SMTP Smart Host - Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

Force SSL/https using .htaccess and mod_rewrite

2010-09-29T14:35:00.000+01:00

Force SSL/https using .htaccess and mod_rewrite

Create a new Fiddle - jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)

2010-09-26T16:02:00.001+01:00

Create a new Fiddle - jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)

Instapaper - read it later bookmarks

2010-09-26T16:02:00.000+01:00

Instapaper - read-it-later bookmarks

CSS3 Border Images for Beautiful, Flexible Boxes

2010-09-17T07:45:00.000+01:00

CSS3 Border Images for Beautiful, Flexible Boxes

Crypto weakness leaves online banking apps open to attack • The Register

2010-09-14T13:47:00.000+01:00

Crypto weakness leaves online banking apps open to attack • The Register

7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces | Webdesigner Depot

2010-09-12T15:48:00.000+01:00

7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces | Webdesigner Depot

Animator VS Animation

2010-09-10T17:29:00.000+01:00

Link I was sent by Martin. Really nice play on the idea of what would happen if the flash movie you were building suddenly took on a life of its own... while you were still building it.

Daring Fireball: A Taste of What's New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines

2010-09-09T16:44:00.000+01:00

Daring Fireball: A Taste of What's New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines

Web Coding Standards | Isobar

2010-09-04T21:16:00.001+01:00

Web Coding Standards | Isobar

How to Centre and Layout Pages Without a Wrapper

2010-09-04T21:16:00.000+01:00

How to Centre and Layout Pages Without a Wrapper

Browser CSS hacks � Paul Irish

2010-09-04T20:58:00.000+01:00

Browser CSS hacks � Paul Irish

Markup-based unobtrusive comprehensive DOM-ready execution � Paul Irish

2010-09-04T20:53:00.000+01:00

Markup-based unobtrusive comprehensive DOM-ready execution � Paul Irish

Avoiding the Flash Of Unstyled Content (FOUC) v3.0 � Paul Irish

2010-09-03T16:44:00.000+01:00

Avoiding the Flash Of Unstyled Content (FOUC) v3.0 � Paul Irish

Conditional stylesheets vs CSS hacks? Answer: Neither! � Paul Irish

2010-09-03T16:43:00.000+01:00

Conditional stylesheets vs CSS hacks? Answer: Neither! � Paul Irish

OAuth for PHP Twitter Apps, Part I

2010-09-03T08:47:00.000+01:00

OAuth for PHP Twitter Apps, Part I

Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once

2010-09-03T07:59:00.000+01:00

Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once

iPhone Basics: Memory Management

2010-09-03T07:54:00.000+01:00

iPhone Basics: Memory Management

HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.

2010-09-02T14:49:00.000+01:00

HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.

Modernizr

2010-09-02T14:48:00.000+01:00

Modernizr adds classes to the HTML element that allow you to target specific browser features in your stylesheet. You don't actually need to write any JavaScript to use it.

CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

2010-09-02T14:46:00.001+01:00

CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source | Nettuts+

2010-09-02T14:46:00.000+01:00

10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source Nettuts+

The Official Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate | Nettuts+

2010-09-02T14:43:00.000+01:00

The Official Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate Nettuts+

Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38 Bug?

2010-08-27T16:03:00.000+01:00

Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38 Bug?

Visual Studio Scrum Template 1.0

2010-08-26T14:59:00.000+01:00

The Visual Studio Scrum Template Definition goes into detail about the different types of work items available in the Scrum template, including Product Backlog Items, Bugs, Tasks, Impediments, Sprints and Test Cases etc. Most of it is fairly obvious, but it's useful to have as a reference all the same.

Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & Surveys

2010-08-05T13:15:00.000+01:00

Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & Surveys

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN

2010-08-04T22:06:00.001+01:00

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN

A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources :Speckyboy Design Magazine

2010-08-04T22:06:00.000+01:00

A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources :Speckyboy Design Magazine

A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates :Speckyboy Design Magazine

2010-08-04T21:55:00.001+01:00

A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications :Speckyboy Design Magazine

2010-08-04T21:55:00.000+01:00

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping :Speckyboy Design Magazine

2010-08-04T21:34:00.000+01:00

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping :Speckyboy Design Magazine

Node.js is the New Black

2010-08-04T21:30:00.000+01:00

Node.js is the New Black

... or, more accurately, Node.js is a web server written in JavaScript that has some benefits for applications that need to maintain the equivalent of persistent connections without hogging loads of resources when they have to deal with large numbers of concurrent clients.

jQuery Fundamentals

2010-08-04T21:16:00.000+01:00

jQuery Fundamentals

An online book by Rebecca Murphey

User Interface Design Framework | Huge GUI elements library for Illustrator | 260 free vectors icons

2010-07-29T14:43:00.000+01:00

User Interface Design Framework | Huge GUI elements library for Illustrator | 260 free vectors icons

Canvas tutorial - MDC

2010-07-12T21:53:00.000+01:00

Canvas tutorial - MDC

App Inventor for Android

2010-07-12T15:55:00.000+01:00

App Inventor for Android

PhoneGap

2010-07-12T12:07:00.000+01:00

PhoneGap

NutshellMail - The All-In-One Solution to Social Media Noise?

2010-07-12T11:46:00.000+01:00

NutshellMail - The All-In-One Solution to Social Media Noise?

www.benjoffe.com | Torus

2010-06-18T12:55:00.000+01:00

Torus Game by Ben Joffe.

All done in HTML 5 canvas.

Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension - ScottGu's Blog

2010-06-04T11:50:00.000+01:00

Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension - ScottGu's Blog

Keep Your Blog Safe: Back Up Your WordPress Installation

2010-06-04T10:32:00.000+01:00

Keep Your Blog Safe: Back Up Your WordPress Installation

CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework

2010-06-02T16:55:00.000+01:00

CodeIgniter Open source PHP web application framework looks like it could be really useful!

Testing on Mobile Devices using Emulators - klauskomenda.com

2010-06-01T10:56:00.000+01:00

This article on klauskomenda.com lists most of the mobile device emulators for testing websites in mobile browsers.

Google Font Directory

2010-05-21T19:02:00.000+01:00

The Google Font Directory could make life a bit easier (or more varied). Well, I say "life" as if I lived web fonts, which I don't, but you get the idea.

Braemoor: Web Dev Software Freebies

2010-05-20T13:25:00.000+01:00

This page lists a collection of web development utilities including a sitemap generator, email address obfuscator, UK postcode, telephone, national insurance number and tax code validators, credit card validator, cookie-handling JavaScript, rogue robot trap and one or two other miscellaneous scripts.

New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy

2010-05-12T09:20:00.000+01:00

New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy

Paint.NET Photoshop (PSD) Plugin

2010-05-10T10:12:00.000+01:00

This Plugin allows you to open Photoshop files in Paint.Net

How to Make Ajax Applications Google-Crawlable

2010-04-27T17:19:00.000+01:00

How to Make Ajax Applications Google-Crawlable

HIJAX - Simplified Ajax

2010-04-27T09:18:00.002+01:00

HIJAX - Simplified Ajax

Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax

2010-04-27T09:18:00.001+01:00

Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax

DOM Scripting: Hijax

2010-04-27T09:18:00.000+01:00

DOM Scripting: Hijax

Dispatch for ASP.NET - Enhanced FTP support for ASP.NET projects

2010-04-26T11:08:00.000+01:00

Dispatch for ASP.NET - Enhanced FTP support for ASP.NET projects

SitePoint Podcast #58: HTML Email with Mat Patterson

2010-04-23T13:26:00.000+01:00

SitePoint Podcast #58: HTML Email with Mat Patterson
If you can wade through the "conversation" bits of this page (and I've only just skimmed the first 1/4) then it looks as if it contains a whole bunch of reasons why you shouldn't try to bother rolling your own HTML email distribution system. It's a LOT of hard work and there are plenty of people who've already done that hard work so you don't have to.

TCPDF - PHP class for PDF (SourceForge)

2010-04-13T11:48:00.001+01:00

PHP Classes for working with PDF Documents:

* TCPDF at SourceForge.net

* Project Home Page

* Examples

Now that's worth a bookmark or two :-)

MockFlow: Online Wireframing

2010-04-08T14:50:00.000+01:00

MockFlow: Online Wireframing

What, Why, and Hows of WordPress Security Keys

2010-04-06T14:50:00.000+01:00

What, Why, and Hows of WordPress Security Keys