A bunch of great logos I've collected from round the web for inspiration
Whenever I see a really good logo or icon on a web site, I save a copy to refer to later when inspiration is running dry, as a reminder of what a... more »
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Google Code Blog: New feeds for Project hosting on Google Code
We get a lot of feedback on Google Code and one of the biggest requests have been for feeds. Therefore, I'm happy to announce that we now have Atom... more »
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Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads
External JavaScript files block downloads and hurt your page performance, but there is an easy way to work around this problem: use dynamic scripts... more »
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Launching a High Performance Django Site
When building an application using an application framework like Django... the priority is often to get the application working first and optimize it... more »
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John Resig - DOM DocumentFragments
I was playing around with DOM DocumentFragments recently, in JavaScript, seeing what I could make with them. Roughly speaking, a DocumentFragment is a... more »
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Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python
Tutorial on building a recursive-descent parser in Python.
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Django-Graphs
Data presentation is hard enough without graphs looking like they somehow traveled forward through time from 1987 to the present. Django-graphs aims... more »
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Awk by example, Part 1
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk... more »
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The Relationship Between Software Aesthetics and Quality
Most software design is lousy. Most software is so bad, in fact, that if it were a bridge, no one in his or her right mind would walk across it. This... more »
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jQuery Column Filters
I built this jQuery plugin for a quick way of allowing table columns to be filtered by the user. It will add text box's to the top of each column in a... more »
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The Pylons Book
Welcome to the Pylons book website where you can read all the chapters of the forthcoming Definitive Guide to Pylons, an open source book to be... more »
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Dr Richard Hipp, Geek of the Week
Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week is Dr Richard Hipp. His code is probably running on your PC, and running completely reliably, for he almost... more »
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Three awesome Django tips
1) By far, the one tip that’s revolutionized my Django projects is this post by Rob Hudson, Django and Relativity. 2) Nathan Ostgard wrote a post on... more »
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ActiveState Code: the new ASPN Cookbooks
ActiveState Code has been launched (in beta)! ActiveState Code is a new site that will be the eventual replacement of the venerable ASPN Cookbooks —... more »
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Ajax Overhaul, Part 3: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery, Ajax tabs, and photo carousels
Part 3 of my colleague Brian Dillard's series on retrofitting your web site with Ajax is now up on the IBM Developerworks site. In this installment,... more »
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Book Review: Head First JavaScript
There are a lot of books that teach you JavaScript; and I mean a lot of books. If you're not really sure what you're looking for, it can be... more »
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Experiment in Making an Article Sidebar More Readable and Visually Appealing
I recently read a great article on Boxes and Arrows about the myth of the fold. Turning to the sidebar to learn more about the author, I was struck... more »
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Table Drag and Drop JQuery plugin
This TableDnD plugin allows the user to reorder rows within a table, for example if they represent an ordered list (tasks by priority for example).... more »
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Python Developer Center from Sun Microsystems, Inc
Welcome to your resource center for the Python programming language and Jython, its implementation for the Java platform.
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23 Go To Resources for Finding Great Code
As a developer, you are hopefully writing mostly all your own code. Nevertheless, there might be the odd time when you need some quick inspiration or... more »
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History Manager for AJAX. Fix the back button on AJAX
Digitarald.de have developed a solution HistoryManager - The Ajax Back-Button (v1.0) for Mootools developers. I have rewritten that library using... more »
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Building Large AJAX Applications with GWT 1.4 and Google Gears
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rajeev Dayal discusses building applications with GWT and Google Gears.
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Programming Brain Teaser
I’ve titled this post as a “Programming” brain teaser because ideally you could solve it in any language. For the sake of the exercise, I’m going to... more »
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Understanding YSlow: What Matters; What Doesn’t
YSlow by Yahoo! is a great little plugin for Firefox and Firebug. It looks at a page and uses Yahoo!’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site to... more »
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Google Open Source Blog: Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format
At Google, our mission is organizing all of the world's information. We use literally thousands of different data formats to represent networked... more »
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