Web Development Inline Code Finder Robert Nyman has released a new and improved version of his inline js finder which now also locates inline styling as well as JavaScript. Inline code finder is a great way of identifying the kind of code that should always be avoided. More details can be found at Robert'
Code Python: Transposing Lists With map and zip I'm re-writing a piece of code to print into columns within a terminal and I wanted to join the nth items of each list together. Zip allows you to do just that >>> my_list=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9,10]] >
Web Development WebDev Toolbar Beta 3 for IE Back in January Microsoft released a newer version of their web developer toolbar and I've only just noticed it. This beta seems to be a lot nicer than the previous version few more features and so far it seems more stable on IE6. If you haven't
Web Standards No more iframes? This morning I was perusing the links for light reading sent by Russ from the WSG when I came across this article: Insert HTML page into another HTML page [http://www.aplus.co.yu/web-dev/insert-html-page-into-another-html-page/], where the author had discovered a way to use the object element instead of
Web Development Six useful shell commands for web developers The aim of this article is to give a basic introduction into six shell commands that would be useful to any web developer that regularly works on linux or unix boxes. All of these commands are easy to use and if you aren't familiar with any of these
Events @media2006 @media2006 [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] has been announced together with a rather tasty new website [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] with all the details. I was at @media2005 last year and I found it to be a really inspiring event. This year (provided I get my act together in
Events Deconstructing d.Construct I got down to Brighton bright and early for d.Construct Clear:left's grassroots web 2.0 conference. After being ushered in by Richard Rutter through the side door along with a couple of other early birds I sat down and booted up my powerbook to check my
Events d.Construct tomorrow I'll be driving down to the d.Construct [http://www.clearleft.com/services/training/dconstruct.php] conference in Brighton early tomorrow morning. I'm looking forward to seeing Stuart Langridge, Simon Willison and Cory Doctorow's presentations in particular. This whole conference is about Web 2.
Events d.Construct 2005 Registrations for d.Construct [http://www.clearleft.com/services/training/dconstruct.php] "a grass-roots Web 2.0 conference" are being taken now Sold out. Such luminaries as Andy Budd [http://www.andybudd.com], Simon Willison [http://simon.incutio.com/] and Stuart Langridge [http://www.kryogenix.org/] will be
CSS Classes on the body tag In Doug Bowman's [http://www.stopdesign.com] second @media presentation he mentioned utilising classes on the body element to be able to affect the layout of the entire page. This simple technique uses descendant selectors in such a way that an entire page layout can be altered by
Events @Media Day Two and where we go from here Day two was looking to be exactly what I was looking for from the whole experience of @Media2005. Doug Bowman [http://www.stopdesign.com] kicked off with an in-depth presentation discussing the re-design of Blogger, from the processes to actual techniques used. There was a particularly great example of using
Events @Media Day One Well, day one of @Media is over already so here is a brief summary: Jeffrey Zeldman [http://www.zeldman.com] kicked off the proceedings with a historical look at the early days of web standards through to what standards mean today and where they might be going in the future.
Events @Media coming up I'm really looking forward to going to the @media [http://www.atmedia2005.co.uk] conference, Thursday and Friday of this week. It's going to be great to put faces to all of the names of people that are such a big part of the industry. Tim
Web Standards Leaving standards at the door? When I started my current job, I guessed that I would have to leave my own thoughts on standards at the door, as the majority of work was being done using html 4 loose, with table layouts, part external/part inline styles and inline javascript (uggghhh!). 4-5 months later and
Web Standards Hand-coding suits me sir! Having been creating a lot of webpages recently, I realised that I am so much better off having made the switch to and-coding rather than using WYSIWYG editors. I have used Dreamweaver since version 4 and whilst I don't have anything against it writing pages in a text