Almost daily links
Tasty bits from my del.icio.us links.
- HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
- "HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.<br /> <br /> After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on."
- HTML5 Reset
- "Now that modern browsers are starting to support some of the really useful parts of HTML5 and CSS3, it's time for an update, and we thought we'd put it out there for everyone to use. By no means do we see this as the end-all and beat-all, but we think it's a fairly good starting place that anyone can take and make their own."
- Pinax
- "Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different."
- Shopp
- Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog.
- Labels in front of form fields (Attardi.org)
- "Placing labels inside input fields is a new pattern that, in my user tests, yields better results. This pattern is used consistently, for example, in Facebook and throughout Apple’s products. This solution has been harshly criticised, as it is said to confuse users who expect to have to select and delete the instruction text. This is indeed often the case. However, better implementations, such as this one, solve this problem, as well as maintaining accessibility and standards-compatibility."
- Webmin
- "Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more." Not really server-specific, but can be used that way. Also see Cloudmin
- ISPConfig
- OpenSource ISP management and Hosting Control Panel software.
- GNUPanel – The GNU web hosting control panel
- "GNUPanel is a completely free (GPL) replacement for proprietary web hosting automation software. GNUPanel is under development, focusing on translation efforts that permit the entire free software community to participate. Currently, GNUPanel is Debian-centric, however, a distro-agnostic approach is planned."
- Bitbucket
- Hosted Mercurial (version control)
- The Scala Programming Language
- "Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way."
- Blog » HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page
- "An often overlooked feature of HTML5 is the new “onpopstate” event. This new feature offers you a way to change the URL displayed in the browser* through javascript without reloading the page. It will also create a back-button event and you even have a state object you can interact with."
- html5shiv
- JavaScript that forces IE 6-8 to recognize (well ... sort of) HTML5 tags (except audio and video).
- PHPDOCX
- "Generates MS Word documents with: graphs and charts, images, headers, footers, sections, lists, textboxes, footnotes and much more." Free version has more limited scope. Pro version is $90 and more robust.
- Open Source Media Framework
- "Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) is an open software framework for building robust, feature-rich video players and applications based on the Adobe® Flash® Platform."
- jPlayer
- A CSS styleable jQuery audio player plugin
