Archives for June 2009

"a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits."

A collection of Web Developer-oriented Firefox extensions to aid in troubleshooting and debugging.

Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.

"Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery"

"With jQuery for Designer’s redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it. "

"This Jquery plugin is an on-demand plugin loader, also known as a lazy loader. Instead of downloading all Jquery-plugins, you might or might not need, when the page loads. Lazy downloads the plugins when you actually use them."

"Allow as many fixed columns to line up across the viewport. Take excess white space and evenly distribute them to each of the columns to complete the full row. This way the columns will always fit perfectly.

"And also, It keeps a default fixed width as the base, so that the columns are reasonably within the intended columns sizes while maintaining enough flexibility to accommodate for the expandable viewport."

This is a bookmarklet. You go to page that has one or more forms and you click the bookmarklet. It completes the form for you with some random data. The whole thinking was to have a form ready to be submitted and generating as less validation errors as possible.

A very interesting write-up that covers scanning barcodes of your books and uploading them to Google Library, which will allow you to do full text searches across all of them.