chris @ August 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Kent Brewster: Wikipedia Search Widget
Working through Kent Brewster’s excellent tutorial to create a search widget is an excellent intro to oo Javascript. The result is slightly buggy though — it has problems with accentuated characters. I’m working on a non-ascii version as a follow-up exer
(tags: tools Tutorial api search javascript)
chris @ August 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Eric Meyer: URL Decoder/Encoder
The cleanest of many URL En/Decoder tools I’ve found. CC licensed. I use this one at work for quick-and-dirty troubleshooting with URLencoded data.
(tags: encoding tools url web)
chris @ August 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
DeGraeve.com: Color Palette Generator
This is a lovely tool that generates color palettes (”dull” and “vibrant” versions) from image URLs. I just created a bunch from favourite flickr photos, for future web work.
(tags: color css design graphics tools web)
Tom Coates: This is not a brothel… on Flickr
Tom C’s magnificent rant about the freedom not to be […]
chris @ August 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Two researchers, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir, demonstrate a technique for resizing images on the fly that may well be revolutionary. This is one of those ideas that, once explained, seem so obviously powerful that you wonder why it wasn’t invented long ago.
The principle consists in the removal of what they call seams: paths connecting […]
chris @ August 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
JeffCroft.com. Typogrify: easily produce web typography that doesn’t suck
Django filter set with a functionality similar to John Gruber’s Smartypants. Beautiful & simple.
(tags: css django typography webdesign python programming)
Are you generic? / Wilson Miner Live
A “build a Django site from scratch in 30min” — for non-programmers, using Django’s generic views. By the lead designer of all […]
chris @ August 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In David Goodger’s lovely article Code Like a Pythonista there’s not only a wealth of little bits about idiomatic Pyhton (or: how to find that fabled “one best way of doing things”), but also some entertainment.
Ever tried importing this in the Python interpreter:
>>> import this
… or wondered about the future of curly braces in […]