Archive for the 'resources' Category

Not happy with the changes to Deli­cious, unsure about what book­mark ser­vice to switch to, well how about host­ing your own, with Semantic Scuttle? That was what happened with the State Library’s Fam­ily His­tory Book­marks, within 24 hours of the changes to Deli­cious and without prior pre­par­a­tion, I had a cus­tom­ised ver­sion of Semantic Scuttle […]

Some­times you look at other people’s code and go why didn’t I think of that. Which is exactly what I thought when I saw Paul Irish’s elg­ant solu­tion to the old con­di­tional com­ments vs CSS hacks dilema. The HTML5Boilerplate by Paul Irish and Divya Manian is a col­lec­tion of elg­ant solu­tions to com­mon prob­lems in web coding.

Boil­er­plate is not a tem­plate or frame­work, just a set of tools to get that site developed quickly. I know I will be mak­ing use of most of it in the near future.

I just signed up for RobotRe­play beta, a ser­vice that cap­tures vis­it­ors every mouse move­ments, click and key­stroke and it is free ser­vice at the moment.

I do not want to track your every mouse move, click or key­stroke on this site, I know what most the prob­lems are with this site and will fix it with the next redesign. What I really want to do is have a good look at RobotRe­play, because it could be very use­ful for a couple of upcom­ing projects …

Fire­Bug a fire­fox exten­sion that one day might chal­lenge web developer as the most use­ful fire­fox exten­sion in my tool­box. A heap of the tools to poke, prod, and mon­itor your JavaS­cript, CSS, HTML and Ajax includ­ing a debug­ger, error con­sole, com­mand line, and a vari­ety of inspect­ors. I can not get it to do everything it is sup­posed to like live edit­ting of the HTML, but even so the inspect­ors are well worth the download.

Yes I know it is Annual CSS Naked Day and this site is still clothed. Even though there has been heaps of hype inform­a­tion about it, I foget all about it till I opened bloglines this morn­ing.
And even if I wanted to remove the stylesheet now, I can not access that part of my site.

Hell if you want to see this site naked, you just need to dis­able the CSS in your Web Developer Tool­bar in Fire­fox or Moz­il­lia or in your
Developer Tool­bar in Inter­net Explorer …

If you are vis­it­ing my blog instead on using the RSS feeds, you might have noticed a couple of addi­tions to the side­bar, Worth Read­ing and Com­men­ted On. This came about after read­ing a post over at Dexagogo titled
Using del.icio.us to track my blog comments

Update 15 Janu­ary: cach­ing is caus­ing a problem

For any­body who needs to know more about typo­graphy on the web, and that is any­body who works with HTML and CSS, you need to book­mark (or grab the RSS feed from) The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style Applied to the Web

Got poin­ted to the Per­form­an­cing for exten­sion Fire­fox which makes blog­ging easy from within Fire­fox. Just giv­ing it a spin and see how it goes.  Easy to set up for Word­Press and looks easy to use, only con­cern is how much will appear in the sum­mary sec­tion on the home page.

Here are a few use­ful low volume mail­ing list for those involved in Gov­ern­ment web ser­vices in WA and Aus­tralia in general.