A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
Howto/tutorial from Plaxo on how to OpenID-enable your website. Includes DB schema details and all.
CodeMirror: In-browser code editing
CodeMirror: In-browser code editing
“CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar.” Better option than CodePress?
9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Networking Site
9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Networking Site
Free and open options for setting up at least the framework of a community site.
Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.
Petabytes on a budget
“How to build cheap cloud storage”. Amazing details of a backup company that custom-builds their own storage “pods” to store massive amounts of data relatively cheaply.
Baseline
“Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a website and grew up to become a full typographic framework for the web using “real” baseline grid as it’s foundation.”
PHP Speedy
“PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:”
Superfeedr
“Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers”
YDN Design Pattern Library
“A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.”