Tuesday, June 14, 2011

AlternativeTo - Alternatives To The Applications You Want To Replace

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).

Thursday, October 14, 2010

OffiSync

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.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Animator VS Animation

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.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Visual Studio Scrum Template 1.0

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.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN

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

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

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

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

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping :Speckyboy Design Magazine

Node.js is the New Black

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

jQuery Fundamentals
An online book by Rebecca Murphey

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Friday, May 21, 2010

Google Font Directory

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.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Braemoor: Web Dev Software Freebies

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.

Friday, April 23, 2010

SitePoint Podcast #58: HTML Email with Mat Patterson

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.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010