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django-compress - Google Code
An app with management command to concatenate and compress Javascript and CSS files. It also handles cache busting by appending a date string. I've done this manually with Makefiles but this looks more integrated and easy.
Google Doctype - Google Code
For web developers, by web developers. The wiki has tons of articles on web security, DOM manipulation, CSS, and other various tips and tricks. Lots of great stuff from Mark Pilgrim.
One of our Django sites finally went public
I'm excited to finally be able to announce a Django project we've worked on at ORCAS that was recently released to the general public.
The website's official title is Brain Injury Partners: Navigating the School System and is designed to give parents of school-aged children with a ...
Google Charts API adds maps
The Google Charts API is growing and just added maps. To play I mapped all the US states that I've either lived in, visited, or driven through. Here's my map:
Thmbnl.com
An online website thumbnail service.
Fabric
Fabric is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. This looks like a good Capistrano replacement for Python deployment.
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
A grid generator for Blueprint CSS that lets you specify number of columns, column width, gutter width, and overall page width. It then generates the grids.css file in both normal and compressed versions, and a grid.png file for testing. Nicely done.
DOS ain't so bad after all ~ Authentic Boredom
Nice insight, but I love how web interfaces can add keyboard shortcuts. For example, I never miss my Mutt email client when Gmail has great support for keyboarding.
Cornerz 0.1
A rounded corner javascript using jQuery that uses Canvas/VML for rendering.
Better Web App Development
An interesting video (.mov file) covering a number of ways to produce web applications, including JSEE/JSP, Ruby on Rails, Plone, TurboGears, and Django. I really liked that the author showed the coding process for each one giving the viewer insight into each toolset. In the end it looks like Plone won out with Django coming in a close 2nd.
Breadcrumbs In Django With Templates – martin-geber.com
An interesting spin on generating breadcrumb navigation by using Django's template inheritance and the not widely known about "block.super" variable.
#3568 (Add support for serializing newforms to HTML) - Django Code - Trac
A ticket with patch to output Django's newforms widgets as HTML4 compliant widgets. I hope this lands.
Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
Explains how browsers use doctype sniffing to switch the layout mode between the quirks mode and the standards mode.
Mozilla's DOCTYPE sniffing
How mozilla determines whether to use quirks mode based on doctype.
Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail — dunae.ca
An online script to convert an HTML document to support emailing. Converts CSS to inline CSS and other tricks for the best outcome in mail clients.
Ned Batchelder: October 2007
This article describes a relative URL scheme that's rarely used but can be a life saver for those static media items when switching between HTTP and HTTPS pages.
tabblo.developer.site >> Tabblo Print Toolkit
Tabblo has put together some nice tools for making print friendly HTML pages, including Javascript libraries and templates. I'd love to see the server-side layout engine, especially since Tabblo was written in Django.
Web Design Practices | Home
A web presentation of Heidi Adkisson's Master's Thesis showing common web design practices and their frequency of occurrence.
Typography, Beyond the Font
Nice PDF slides of Jeff Croft's talk on typography. Lots of great stuff for web typography and happily very little about fonts.
Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL
Great CSS3 rant. It highlights a few types of things web developers and designers want to see were it not for the glacially moving W3C.