I think it’s extremely important to understand the basic strengths and weaknesses of this up-and-coming technology and when to choose one system over another. I never envision myself programming in them, but I do hope that one day I can make strategic decisions regarding a company’s NoSQL implementation. Regardless if you are a programmer or a manager, hopefully my high-level overview of NoSQL and the major players below will be helpful.

The Colour Bookmark

Drag the Colour Bookmark link to your toolbar to find out the colour palette of the website you're currently on. Then simply: copy, paste and use the colours you choose.

Alternatively…
Enter a website into the form to retrieve its colour palette:

Muse (code name)
Design and publish HTML websites without writing code

Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites.

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

Dooble is a new Open Source Web browser that focuses on compactness, security, and stability. Dooble is the only Web browser that encodes a user's browsing information. While other browsers have the support of thousands of dedicated individuals, Dooble has been harvested by just a handful of people.

On one hand you want to keep the file dimensions as small as possible to take best advantage of the tiling effect. However, when you notice a distinctive feature — for instance, a knot in some woodgrain — repeating at regular intervals, it really breaks the illusion of organic randomness.

Maybe we borrow some ideas from cicadas to break that pattern?

Попытавшись найти в яндексе информацию про A/Б сплит тестирование, обнаружила, что все ссылки ведут на сайты для оптимизаторов и "продвигателей" сайтов.

Ни одной ссылки на сайт для маркетологов, продакт-менеджеров или тестировщиков.А ведь это так замечательно вписывается в концепцию Business Driven Testing: инструмент, который позволяет понять, нравится ли пользователю то, что мы сделали?

Поэтому делюсь переводом статьи, оригинал которой находится здесь. Статья, конечно, тоже про оптимизацию продажнических, как я их называю, страниц. Но обзор и советы во второй части текста очень даже применимы для любого продукта, который мы хотим совершенствовать на основании реакции наших пользователей.

As browsers and server-side platforms advance, and libraries new and old grow and mature, JavaScript evolves as well. Staying at the top of your game is important. As a JavaScript developer, you’ll need to keep up with the latest news and learn new skills.

We’ve put together a list of seven of our favorite JavaScript resources to help save you time and energy along the way. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, we think you’ll find the sites below both informative and beneficial. If you know of other great resources, feel free to share them in the comments.

This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.

Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables search engines to understand the information on web pages and provide richer search results in order to make it easier for users to find relevant information on the web. Markup can also enable new tools and applications that make use of the structure.

This is just a personal driven overview of web font services and should not be understood as an authoritative attempt to classify the services - as it was mentioned to me. I needed an overview and there was none, so I made one. :) I provide a change log so far and I will try to keep informations up to date. If you want to be added or have further informations, just write me a note: webfont-services@sprungmarker.de.

I splitted the overview up in two parts to get a better scrolling behaviour. :) Somehow in part 2 are web font services which are more specialists and web font services which only host your web font, they offer no web fonts. You can jump directly to each part:

Google’s Keyword Tool is a great place to start as it provides you with the # of monthly searches being made for certain words/phrases. / Domain Name Suggestion Tool To Jumble Words & Domain Suffixes http://domainjig.com/# / http://www.bustaname.com/ / http://domai.nr/

Compare Content Management Systems

Subversion (SVN) Hosting Comparison This site is run by me, Ian Terrell, an independent software developer. One day I was doing research on where to host my project, and decided to put it up for the world to see (also see http://subversionhosting.dbur.com/)

What is TagCrowd?

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud. It was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University.

This site is provided as a community service to everyone interested in looking for a means to manage web site content. Here you can discuss, rate, and compare the various systems available on the market today.

What is BitNami?

The aim of BitNami is to simplify the deployment of web applications, such as wikis or blogs, in order to make them more accessible. There are a lot of high quality open source software packages that aren’t used as much as they could be because getting them up and running can be a complex process. We want to change that!

What are BitNami Stacks?

A BitNami Stack is an integrated software bundle that includes a web application and all of its required components (web server, database, language runtime), so it is ready to run out of the box. The Stacks can be deployed as traditional Native Installers, Virtual Machine Images or Cloud Images. Native installers are single file executables that you download to your machine. When double-clicked, they walk you through each step of the automated installation process.

If you're not an advanced Web designer, and you don't want to pay a company to create a Web site for you, there are services across the Web that can help you create the site you want. All of the tools listed below are designed specifically for beginners. If that's you, give them a whirl.

Wearecolorblind.com is a library with patterns and examples for anyone who designs, develops or is in another way involved with creating websites or content for the web.

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

Tracer is a simple one-line Javascript that you can add to your site or blog to monitor the content from your site which users find most engaging. This means, whenever users highlight or copy-paste any text or pictures from your site, Tracer tracks it. What’s more, when users paste the copied content in an email, blog or another web page, Tracer automatically adds an attribution link back to your site, potentially increasing your site’s traffic and improving your search engine rank.

We went through Winer's HowTo: EC2 for Poets, and within 20 minutes had set most of it up. But for two instances, it went smoothly.

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here

In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Drupal-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Drupal.

BuiltWith is a website analysis tool

tumble-log Backup (via Urbansheep)

Diagrams are an essential tool for communicating information architecture and interaction design in Web development teams. This document discusses the considerations in development of such diagrams, outlines a basic symbology for diagramming information architecture and interaction design concepts, and provides guidelines for the use of these elements.

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.

patterns

Try our free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. The script incorporates best practices from HCI research and web site optimization techniques into its recommendations.

Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet. Our HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.

MindTouch Deki Wiki is a free open source wiki and application platform for communities and enterprises.

Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behaviour to your html table elements. By simply adding 2 lines of code to your html page you will have styled and active tables that your visitors will love :)

The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large.

Approximately one in twenty people have some form of colour blindess that prevents them from seeing colour the same way that people without any colour vision deficiencies do.

ssuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, documents, and stuff you'd normally find on print. It's the place where YOU become the publisher. Upload a document, it's fast, easy, and totally FREE.

Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.

Сегодняшняя заметка будет о сервисе отслеживания активности пользователя — CrazyEgg.

This document catalogs the many tools and tactics available for corporate web strategy in 2008.

Get any content from the web

Enter a starting keyword to generate up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.

Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren't expecting.

UI-Patterns.com is an attempt to over time create a library of such solutions to common problems. It is a personal project, but is extremely open to contributions.

Word Domain - Generates and combines words you can use for various purposes such as domain name. - Domain Combiner

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

Extracting data with Hpricot (ruby on rails) explanations with a lot of code and specific info but could be usefull for the future ideas

HTML Parser for Ruby

Chatsum is a FREE add-on for your web browser that lets you chat with all the other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you.

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website.