Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.
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iui
iPhone UI library for developing web-based apps that look iPhone-ish.
Web Hooks
“User-defined HTTP callbacks for push, pipes and plugins”
Selenium
“Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms. “
MacRabbit Espresso
Fancy new Mac Text Editor. Might provide some sort of competition for TextEdit? Nah.
jParallax
“Parallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport.”
Elgg.org
“Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.”
Raphaël
A crazy JS library for working with images and graphics. Uses SVG and VML to smoothly handle rendering images and manipulating existing objects. Only supports very recent browsers.
Open Proxy List
Web interface to look up an international proxy so you can appear as if you’re still in the US.
Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
This document covers mode switching as it applies to Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers, Safari and other WebKit-based browsers, Opera, Konqueror, Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for Windows and browsers that embed IE.