Almost daily links
Tasty bits from my del.icio.us links.
- PHPExcel
- 'Project providing a set of classes for the PHP programming language, which allow you to write to Excel 2007 files and read from Excel 2007 files. This project is built around Microsoft's OpenXML standard and PHP. '
- Adobe - Open Screen Project
- The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment ... that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices...
- Would you read programming books if I offered you free pizza?
- Um. Yeah. Throw in some beer, and I might even write one. ... Brian Reindel suggests why you should start reading them.
- Mobilytics
- Free mobile web site analytics tracking.
- Wapalizer
- Free mobile web stats.
- Bango Analytics
- Get free mobile analytics for your mobile website .
- Stop using Ajax!
- "I'm not saying never use Ajax, I'm saying don't use it for the sake of it, and try to avoid it for now, instead sticking to accessible alternatives"
- Pixelpost
- Open source, multi-lingual photo blogging software.
- Zfone Project Home Page
- VoIP encryption software. Use as a plugin with Gizmo, Google Talk (when GTalk is using RTP), and Apple iChat to keep your calls from being intercepted. (Yeah VoIP = unencrypted .wav files.) Does not work with Skype.
- U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations - International Herald Tribune
- The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
- Flash Switcher
- 'This extension allows you to easily switch from one flash player plugin version to another, or also to remove or save the currently installed plugin (maybe for testing the express install).'
- Introduction to Django: Helping Perfectionists With Deadlines
- PiXELWiT
- A Flash developer's web blog.
- myOpenID for Domains
- My site's been hacked - now what?
- Official Google tips for repairing the damage and getting re-indexed.
- Introducing CSS Gradients
- WebKit and soon Safari will support CSS gradients.
- Take Control of Your Maps
- Open source tools to make your own mapping application.
- The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift
- How to prevent your brilliant Photoshop colors from getting shifted when you save for web.
- Prototype
- A library of ActionScript classes and functions.
- tweener
- Tweener (caurina.transitions.Tweener) is a Class used to create tweenings and other transitions via ActionScript code for projects built on the Flash platform. It's released and maintained for these versions:
- MC Tween
- An ActionScript class for creating dynamic tweens using equations. Open source under a BSD license
- Flash Source Code
- Open Source ActionScript code.
- Raw HTML Plugin for WordPress
- A plugin to allow raw JS, PHP and HTML code in your WordPress posts.
- More Twitter Tips
- More tips and advice for getting the most out of Twitter.
- SimplePie
- A PHP class for parsing RSS and Atom feeds.
- Mippin Blog: Cookie Conundrum
- Cookies can present an issue with some mobile phone browsers, especially in the U.S.
- Midgard CMS
- An open source CMS built on LAMP. A competitor to Drupal? Requires root-level privileges because the core of it was developed in C. Since 1998.
- OpenID provides a better security model
- Some ways in which OpenID may be *more* secure as an authentication mechanism.
- PS Brushes.net
- Free Photoshop brushes.
- Yahoo!'s Latest Performance Breakthroughs
- More tips for developing high-performance web pages and creating a faster experience for your users.
- How to Handle Your Twitter Followers
- Sarah Dopp's terribly insightful post on using Twitter and how to determine who to follow, unfollow or block.
