I love how easily I can traverse an HTML document with jQuery, and I’d love to be able to do it in PHP. There are a few classes, but the PHP binding for Tidy seems to be where it’s at. The Zend dev pages make it look that way, anyway.
Posted March 3, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: dom, html, parse, php, Tidy, web development. 3 Comments.
p0ps Harlow tweeted something about trying to get an AMP environment running on his Mac. Conversation followed, and eventually I sent along an email that look sorta like this:
If you’re running 10.4 (I doubt it, but it’s worth mentioning because I’m most familiar with it), here’s how I’ve setup dozens of machines for web development [...]
Posted January 24, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: amp, apache, installing, mac, mac os X, mysql, php, sysadmin, web development. 4 Comments.
This an old one, but it just caught my atention. In A List Apart tells us Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus. Is this still true? Haven’t the last several years been about the triumph of good design in both the usability and graphic senses? Or are rounded corners not actually [...]
Posted January 24, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: graphic design, usability, usability vs. design, web development. Be the first one.
Aaron Schmidt alerted me to this how to sweetening up your site with fancy iPhone web clip icons.
Posted January 17, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: icon, iphone, web clip, web development. Be the first one.
We all need a recognized icon to represent “translate this.” We’ve got one for feeds and social bookmarking, but where’s our translate icon? A lot of folks simply use flags, but that’s a bad idea because they’re “nationalistic, and represent ideals, boundaries, and political beliefs, but do not represent a language.”
Joe Lee has developed [...]
Posted December 13, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bsuite, icon, language translation, translate icon, web development. 3 Comments.
It was part of a long thread among WordPress hackers over the summer and fall, but this post at VulgarisOverIP just reminded of it: minify promises to be an easy way to compress external CSS and JavaScript without adding extra steps to your develop/deploy process. No, really, look at the usage instructions. (To be clear, [...]
Posted December 5, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: code, compression, css, js, minify, performance, script, web development. One Comment.
Read: A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket and Part II.
Test/simulate: Opera Mini, Lynx, a variety of mobile phones, Internet Explorer (because even with Parallels, who really wants to infect their machine with windows?), and iPhone.
mobi, mobile, web development, mobile web, browser testing
Posted September 20, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: browser testing, mobi, mobile, mobile web, web development. One Comment.
Google Gears: create web apps that work offline
google, offline ajax, web development, ajax, offline, google gears
Posted June 19, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink. Tags: ajax, google, google gears, offline, offline ajax, web development. Be the first one.
The Zend overview of the new XML features in PHP 5 has re-energized me for building XML Server Applications at my library.
xml, php, web development
Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink. Tags: php, web development, xml. One Comment.
A List Apart, has been revamped and they’re proud of it. They should be, it’s beautiful and functional. It’s one of the few early web development resources that’s still with us, and there’s a reason.
tags: a list apart, ala, redesign, web development, web development resources
Posted August 23, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: a list apart, ala, redesign, web development, web development resources. One Comment.
Colin over at Command-Tab alerted me to some great cheat sheets, including this one for JavaScript at ILoveJackDaniels.com.
tags: cheat sheet, cheat sheets, javascript, programming, web, web development
Posted August 2, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: cheat sheet, cheat sheets, javascript, programming, web, web development. 3 Comments.