This barely made the news but you should know that jQuery 1.4 is now out with lots of performance improvements and a few new features.
This barely made the news but you should know that jQuery 1.4 is now out with lots of performance improvements and a few new features.
If you play a lot with Compiz Fusion and managed to ruin your config file and now you can’t boot into GNOME, here’s a simple command line fix: gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz
“Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.”
Halves layouts come in two options: Left & Right and Top & Bottom.
QueryLoader is another javascript preloader that produces a stylish effect for your pages. Uses jQuery.
This WordPress plugin is fairly simple: it creates a name and email field in a form that you can put in your blog for collecting people’s contact information—the WordPress Email Capture Plugin. Should be useful for campaign microsites and similar projects.
If you’re interested in what Firefox’s sibling Camino 2 has in store, there’s a bunch of beta releases that you can try now.
In Mac OS X, here’s a terminal command to show processes that use your network connection: lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d " " | uniq
Firefox 3.6 will be supporting WOFF, the Web Open Font Format that will make @font-face embedding more straightforward.
$fx() is a compact, lightweight Javascript Library for animation.
Linode appears to be another good VPS host worth considering if you’re growing out of shared hosting.
Useful popularity algorithm, in case you’re building your next big thing.
Recently, the Apache Foundation was hacked and compromised, but managed to limit it and bounce from it pretty quickly. Here’s a rundown of things that happened with their corrective actions. Useful for DIY administrators.
If you want to start a tumblelog utilizing WordPress on your own server, here’s a bunch of themes to get you going.
Programming languages for the web are on the rise, though I wonder why it took them this long to conclude this.
The ImageShack Offloader plugin for WordPress will allow you to utilize the ImageShack service as a pseudo–CDN transparently, thus improving delivery of your site’s images.
khtml2png is a Linux app that you can install to take webpage screenshots from the commandline without troubling yourself with browsers and a mouse!