Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

This is why we can't have nice things.

"I claim that if you don't take those rules to heart in your own source code then you are either unprofessional, lazy, not a team-player, or all of the above. If you as a software developer take pride in your professionalism and quality of your work then you have to consider that it is not only the achieved functionality for which you are being paid: The code you produce in almost all cases becomes property of your employer, and thus, the code itself also a product (and actually the most important product) you deliver. And how useful that code if for the team who has to work with it is what really determines its value."

News visualization.

A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.

MTV suddenly remembers what music videos are. Awesome website ensues.

So simple, I'm sad that it didn't exist years ago.

Make your own O'Reilly book cover.

HTTP Benchmarking tool, mentioned during the Flickr Operations Planning talk.

'cuz there are a zillion pages to check.

Performance analysis tool.

Heh.

"I looked at your code. Here is the problem. You are not using frames or CSS to mimic frames. This is not your fault. You were taught not to use frames in your class."

RAGE Domainer lets you keep track of the domains you own, and the domains you want to own letting you know when they expire and which ones provide the best bang for your buck.

'IF YOU SAY "Drink the Kool-Aid" ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME, I'M GOING TO BURST THROUGH THE WALL AT YOUR OFFICE, KILL YOU IN A VERY UNSIGHTLY AND BLOODY WAY, AND THEN SCREAM "Oh, YEAH!"'

Privacy/identity protection service, currently UK only

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a human — until you fill out a captcha.

Great stuff from #1 about community building.

"That's why a web designer's first job is to educate the people who hold the purse strings."

Interesting, if not unexpected.

I have no idea what is going on here, but this is an awesome chat interface.

:laffo:

Wow.

In these dark times you can never be too careful that’s why we at the Airbag Department of Security created a Blog Advisory System so that Website Masters can alert their users to the threat condition of words being used.

Perhaps incendiary, but terribly truthful and worth heading.

Khoi Vinh's excellent presentation on grid-based design. Download the slides, people.

A common method of limiting access to services made available over the Web is visual verification of a bitmapped image. This presents a major problem to users who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia.

Info on how MacRumors scaled their site for the keynote. Impressive stats and setup.

Hard to say if these will be worthwhile, but interesting nonetheless.

Amber Simmons on writing for an audience.

As advertised, but very beta level.

What the web looked like 10 years ago.

It's like my college experience, only in webcomic form.

"That's right, instead of relying on the frustrating <blink> tag - which is non-standard and not compatible with all web browsers - blinking text can now be achieved in a fully standards-compliant manner."

"Google Brin Creator is a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone to create and publish cool, attractive looking Sergey Brins in just minutes."

So crazy, it just might work.

Also, your thoughts on tofurkey.

Congrats, I guess?

Better than my precious awstats?

"the Flickr of illegally downloaded TV"

Need to check this out when I get home.

[via Buzz]

The Viral Chart tracks, monitors and reports the performance of viral advertising campaigns from around the World in a real time on-line Chart.

Discovered this while in the Supernova backchannel; really neat XHTML slideshow system.

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with.

"Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages." I love markp.

Book now released. Need to add this to the work collection.

Useful for Greasemonkeying

Hoping we can switch from Webalizer.

I really should try to work some of this in for VJA/PNN.

Sakai is using this, and it's pretty wizzy. Wish Safari was supported.

Web Stats as Sims

Just made myself class B.

Lots of truth here...