Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

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10+ useful code snippets to develop iPhone friendly websites
"When developing websites, you have to care about different browsers, as well as mobile devices such as iPhones or iPods. In this article, let's have a look at the 10+ most useful code snippets (Javascript, PHP, CSS, etc) for developing iPhone friendly websites, quickly and efficiently."
Perfecto Mobile
Test your mobile applications and content on a multitude of real devices and networks over the web. (Like Browsercam, but for phones.)
the orange couch
New Orleans coffee shop. To visit on my next trip.
Advanced Google Analytics Integration with WordPress
Slides from a presentation on how to track even more granular user traffic on your WordPress blog using Google Analytics.
Fliggo - Create Your Own Video Site
Sort of like Ning for videos.
Squad
Squad is a web-based collaborative code editor. We make it simple to open, edit and share code in real time.
TeuxDeux
TeuxDeux is a simple, designy, browser-based to-do app and the first collaboration between studio-mates swissmiss and Fictive Kin. The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app based on Tina’s personal ideal work-flow.
Mollify
"Mollify is a web file manager for publishing and managing files hosted in a web server of your choice. Different users can have access to different files and with different permissions. User interface is simple and intuitive, and it comes with following languages: Deutsch, English, Français, Português, Suomi."
BambooInvoice: Simple, Beautiful, Open Source, Online Invoicing
BambooInvoice is free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors. Our number one priorities are ease of use, user-interface, and beautiful code. BambooInvoice was built by designer and programmer Derek Allard, who uses it everyday, not by a large firm who can't remember the names of its customers. It is meant to be sexy, both on top of, and under the hood. Go ahead, kick the tires. View source shows semantic, structured, meaningful XHTML. We use AJAX to keep things peppy and javascript to keep things functional. The entire application degrades gracefully for users without javascript enabled, and complies with WAI priority two.
Ballpark
Yet another online estimates and invoicing service.
The Code4Lib Journal – Infomaki: An Open Source, Lightweight Usability Testing Tool
Infomaki is a “lightweight” usability testing tool developed to evaluate new designs for the NYPL.org web site and uncover insights about our patrons. Designed to act as a “one question” survey, it presents respondents with a single question randomly selected from a pool of active questions. Initially, two types of questions were supported: multiple choice and “Where would you click to…?” (attached to a screenshot or other image). Recently, we have added five-second tests for comparing two designs and for testing recall of a design’s features. Response times for each answer are captured as well.
IxEdit
xEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.
Notable
Quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser. Works on iPhone, too!<br /> <br /> Notable helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion.
Tumult HyperEdit: The live HTML and PHP editor for Mac OS X
Tumult HyperEdit is a lightweight HTML editor with a preview pane that displays the web page live as you type. HyperEdit breaks the tedious cycle of writing html, saving the file, then reloading and viewing the page in the browser by combining the writing phase with the viewing phase. This clarifies the effects of your changes and speeds up the overall process of making a web page. W3C-based validation will red-underline any mistakes. It uses the same rendering engine found in Safari, so it is not only standards compliant, but also very fast.
Pixen
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free! [MIT license]