Great article comparing the strengths of jQuery vs. Mootools. I’m with the author: jQuery is a great collection of tools for working with the DOM, but I prefer Mootools’ extensibility and explicit (if more verbose) code.
Allow IE to resize images much more accurately and beautifully than otherwise using a proprietary CSS property. Must-know tip when you need to specify a size in the CSS or HTML.
Tip: if Mail.app is autocompleting an out-of-date address for someone you can remove the address from its memory by selecting Window→Previous Recipients, searching the list for the problematic email, and clicking the Remove From List button.
Incredibly handy; incredibly hidden.
An interesting look at the problems a frontend developer faces. For me, the best part of the article was in the footnotes:
For my purpose there is a distinction between a frontend engineer and a web developer. Within my definition, a web developer is creating an entire product, whereas a front end developer is developing the frontend portion of the product, but other portions are being a developed by other groups. […] While the technical skills are roughly equivalent, the social and political environment are anything but.
Some useful discoveries that I made while prepping the beckbits custom RSS feed in Yahoo Pipes.
The Pulse is the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s educational media center and Tierra’s most recent large project to go live. Designed by Coakley-Heagerty and powered by ExpressionEngine with Google site search.
Free notebook paper vector drawing; a central part of beckbits’ theme.
Tip: when using Hazel to automatically manage or sort your files, make sure to place your most specific rules first in the list.
For example, I’m monitoring my Downloads folder with Hazel using three rules: “label orange if older than one week”, “label red if older than 10 days”, and “move to Trash if older than two weeks”. The “move to Trash” rule needs to come first, followed by “label red”, and finally “label orange”. Otherwise, every file older than a week triggers “label orange” and Hazel never reaches “label red” or “move to Trash”.
Allows you to quickly record and upload a screencast straight from your browser; potentially very useful for quick demonstrations. Quality of screencasts is decent, particularly in full screen mode.
Plugins for high-speed markup generation. Currently in a very early state (only support for Aptana and Textmate) and mostly in Russian, but some great ideas.
Syntax highlighting script using Mootools. Looks promising, although I haven’t had a chance to try it yet.
Fantastic trick for centering variable-width block elements.
