Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips
• 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error
• Stop measuring number of pageviews on your website! Measure the right metric: Visitor Lifetime Value « Wingify Conversion Optimization Blog
• The Best Free Fonts of 2009 | Web Design Ledger
• The Perpetual Web, Innovating Cron: Announcing Norc A python-based task management system that replaces Unix cron

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• FireQuery = Firebug enhancements for jQuery
• git ready » learn git one commit at a time
• Python Library for Google Translate – good coders code, great reuse
• Spencer Fry — What’s A Non-Programmer To Do?
• briancollins’s nice_find at master – GitHub

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Add Apple’s free Backup.app to your backup toolbox
• Tips and tricks: Putting Things in your Dropbox makes syncing simple
• 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error
• Hivelogic – Podcasting Equipment Guide (2009)
• The Printliminator
• Tools – Google Translate Code to drop into site to translate into other languages.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Developer’s Guide – Google Chrome Frame – Google Code Detection for Chrome Frame which swaps out IE6's rendering engine with webkit.
• Halo 3: ODST miniFAQ
• Mac 101: Create a wireless network between Mac and iPhone
• Tornado Web Server Documentation FriendFeed's web server is a relatively simple, non-blocking web server written in Python. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the non-blocking web server and tools.
• facebook’s tornado at master – GitHub Tornado is a relatively simple, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python, designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services. Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain. While Tornado is similar to existing Web-frameworks in Python (Django, Google's webapp, web.py), it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic. – http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=301
• 20 Fresh jQuery Plugins to Enhance your User Interface
• Dive Into HTML5

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• JollysFastVNC JollysFastVNC is a secure ARD and VNC client.
• Top 10 tips to a new django developer : Dpeepul Blog
• Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
• Garbage collect every git repository on your machine Git repositories DO start to slow down after a while. They won't be as efficient in disk space utilization.

  The following little bash script will crawl your whole hard drive, look for any git repositories, and then garbage collect, prune, and pack them, regaining your disk space and making your repositories operate faster:

  #!/bin/sh
  find . -type d -name .git | while read dir; do pushd "$dir"; git gc –prune; popd; done

• Tim, the Enchanter: Garbage collect every git repository on your machine Lucky for us, since we are working with computers here, we don't have to clean our rooms by hand. The following little bash script will crawl your whole hard drive, look for any git repositories, and then garbage collect, prune, and pack them, regaining your disk space and making your repositories operate faster:

  #!/bin/sh
  find . -type d -name .git | while read dir; do pushd "$dir"; git gc –prune; popd; done

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• html5doctor, helping you implement html5 today
• Visual git tutorial I
• syntaxhighlighter – Google Code SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It's 100% Java Script based and it doesn't care what you have on your server.
• 16 great .htaccess Tricks and Hacks « PHP Twitter
• JSONView :: Add-ons for Firefox

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Check My Colours – Analyse the color contrast of web pages
• jQuery Image Effects – Hover Effect w/ jQuery & CSS – jQuery Tutorial
• Using jQuery for Background Image Animations
• 960 Grid System
• Page Speed Home Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• The Scala Programming Language
• IDEO Labs » LiveView: an iPhone app for on-screen prototyping iPhone app and screen overlay to help with iPhone app and site development.
• Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala • The Register
• 2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS Here’s how I quickly got my Ruby web development environment into ship-shape form The Thoughtbot Way.
  Many of these instructions are specific to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Some of them are opinionated (Vim over Textmate). Pick-and-choose what you need but this is everything that I use happily day-to-day right now.
• DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache! This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss.
  You can use PNGs as the SRC of an <IMG/> element or as a background-image property in CSS.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Ajaxian » A simple solution to the “other” problem with select boxes A simple tutorial on using jQuery to solve a “select-to-input toggle” that shows and hides a text field when you select “Other”.
• Make your 404 pages more useful
• Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
• The Complete Guide for You to Become an Almighty jQuery Developer | Effectize

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• WhatTheFont : MyFonts Upload images to get the font used in it.
• Version test for Adobe Flash Player Pulls up additional information about current version of installed Flash.
• 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
• %w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Rolling with Rails 2.1 – The First Full Tutorial – Part 1