Posts in: Tools & Resources

‘Widgetopia’

Christina Wodtke over at Elegant Hack presents Widgetopia, a look at user interface elements — mostly icons and the like — from web and software sources. [30 Dec 2003]

Feed validator

Need to check whether your R S S or Atom feed? Try the Feed validator tool from Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby. [16 Nov 2003]

Accessibility validators

While full accessibility is a hard goal for web developers to reach, validators can address the more common technical aspects of accessibility. Here is a list of validators, each with varying degrees of complexity and completeness. WAVE 3.0 (also available as a toolbar for Mozilla and Internet Explorer) Bobby Cynthia Says A-Prompt I personally find [...] [10 Sep 2003]

ASCII characters, Hex, Octal and S G M L codes

Find the numeric values for all of these characters at Ascii Table. [6 Sep 2003]

This is completely pointless

But just for the fun of it, visit Another Useless Website. PHP Goodness Some lesser-known resources to visit. PHPMac.com Finally, a site devoted to PHP development on the Macintosh platform. This site gets you started on PHP development for OS X. PHP Freaks Tutorials, articles and more. PHP Developer Network Forums Ask questions and get [...] [6 Sep 2003]

S Q L Training on a budget

Want to get your feet wet with SQL? Try SQLCourse.com. [25 Aug 2003]

Need your IP in a hurry?

WhatIsMyIP.com tells you your I P address in an instant. Now, you could just write a simple script that captures your IP address, but this is so much quicker. [17 Aug 2003]

That Eric Meyer… I tell ya…

He’s a cool web dude. Check out his Color Blender (found while digging around on Zeldman.com). [22 Jun 2003]

Who knew?: W 3 C Tutorials

Man, the stuff you find when you dig around the Web. The World Wide Web Consortium offers tutorials covering its more popular markup languages and standards including H T M L, C S S, SOAP, and the Semantic Web. [14 Jun 2003]

Get usability tips from rocket scientists

Okay, so that’s not quite true. But the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Usability Engineering Team offers tips and tidbits on creating usable applications. [30 May 2003]