Pinboard: bookmarks for andyh

It all sounds very promising, but if you’re hoping for IE 8 Beta 1 to catch up with other contemporary browsers, you’d better lower your expectations a bit.

Bookmarks ie webdev ie8 browser microsoft standards
march 2008 by andyh_ky

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Speed up Apache - how I went from F to A in YSlow :: Jaisen Mathai
Bookmarks apache performance optimization yslow php webdev firebug
february 2008 by andyh_ky

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How to Make a Password Strength Meter Like Google - Code and Coffee

for future reference

Bookmarks ajax css javascript password security programming howto webdev tools
july 2007 by andyh_ky

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Beyond Standards

You should preferably know your way around XML and SOAP or at least be able to lie very convincingly and learn exceedingly quickly when caught out.

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july 2007 by andyh_ky

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Should Designers and Developers Do Usability? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

If you test your own design, however, you might be less willing to admit its deficiencies. Designers can be too willing to dismiss user complaints or problems as minor or unrepresentative, when in fact the test indicates the need for a deep redesign.

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june 2007 by andyh_ky

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Wbox HTTP testing tool

Quite a hype - "Instead to make a single request it's possible to make multiple concurrent requests using the clients number option. Wbox will spawn the required number of processes, and every process will perform a query every second."

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june 2007 by andyh_ky

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Coding Horror: JavaScript: The Lingua Franca of the Web

great piece on JS

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may 2007 by andyh_ky

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QuirksBlog: New Dutch accessibility law

As of 1 September last year, every website built for a government agency is required by law to use: * valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0

Bookmarks Dutch webdev accessibility law standards webdesign government
february 2007 by andyh_ky

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Reserved words in JavaScript
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february 2007 by andyh_ky

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Ultimate htaccess Examples | evolt.org

some useful copy/pastes here

Bookmarks htaccess webdev apache reference development web howto
february 2007 by andyh_ky

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MeasureIt | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

MeasureIt rocks, "Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage."

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january 2007 by andyh_ky

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What You Didn't Know About Payment Systems: What to know before you commit

excellent piece about choosing an online payment system (aka Merchant)

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january 2007 by andyh_ky

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Flickr API Fun - Rasmus' Toys Page

awesome. i'd like to get on this...

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january 2007 by andyh_ky

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Speeding Up AJAX with JSON

JSON is way easier to parse than XML responses

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january 2007 by andyh_ky

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Cross-site scripting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

yikes at the huge XSS problem in Adobe Acrobat http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070103/pdf-xss-can-compromise-your-machine/

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january 2007 by andyh_ky

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massless.org

Notes about a sensible creation of a WYSIWYG interface. "I've taken my cue from other editors and attempt to leave hyperlinks and line breaks but strip all the rest of the HTML in the copied selection."

Bookmarks blogger wysiwyg webdev blog javascript editor ajax development
january 2007 by andyh_ky

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Vitamin Features » The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript

some cool tips here... "One really easy trick is a class name to communicate with the CSS designer that you apply to the body of the document. This will allow the CSS designer to distinguish between styles that are applied to the non-JavaScript version an

Bookmarks javascript development programming tips ajax webdev webdesign
december 2006 by andyh_ky

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Ajax DNS

yay. new bookmark! also does whois...