Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
Google launching Gmail themes today
Link: Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available
Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available from the Zend Framework download site: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest. Check out the link for more details.
Link: Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available
Large monitors on production floor show company’s Basecamp milestones
This is just cool…
Santiago Gomez, IT Manager at A. D. Williams Engineering, describes how the company set up large LCD monitors on the production floor to show the company's Basecamp milestones.
Link: Large monitors on production floor show company’s Basecamp milestones
Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!
Did you ever want to use just a single component from Zend Framework, but couldn’t figure out which files you needed? Well, here’s a solution: Zend Framework packageizer script! Just pick the class you want, and you’ll get it and all its dependencies in a nice zip file for you to consume.
Link: Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!
21 ways to streamline your CSS
These days, CSS development is a complex process. You may be working on sites with large CSS files, multiple developers ,and long development timelines. The more complex your CSS files become, the more difficult it is to work with them. This article will present some tips and tricks for keeping your CSS files organized and easy to work with.
Link: 21 ways to streamline your CSS
Taglocity Brings Gmail-like Tagging to Outlook
Microsoft Outlook plug-in Taglocity brings Gmail-style tagging to your Outlook email.
Link: Taglocity Brings Gmail-like Tagging to Outlook
Introduction to Zend_Db
A pretty good real world overview of how to use Zend_Db (from the Zend Framework)
Link: Introduction to Zend_Db
How to Manage Sessions Using Memcached
Dormando shows an enlightened middle way for storing sessions in cache and the database. Sessions are a perfect cache candidate because they are transient, smallish, and since they are usually accessed on every page access removing all that load from the database is a good thing. But as Dormando points out session caches have problems
Link: How to Manage Sessions Using Memcached
Progressive Enhancement with CSS
A lot of web designers and developers don’t think much about how they incorporate stylesheets into their documents, but there is a real art to it. With the right methods, you can immediately gain many of the benefits of progressive enhancement.
Link: Progressive Enhancement with CSS
Olio Web2.0 Toolkit – Evaluate Web Technologies and Tools
Olio is a is an open source web 2.0 toolkit to help evaluate the suitability, functionality and performance of web technologies. Olio defines an example web2.0 application (an events site somewhat like yahoo.com/upcoming) and provides three initial implementations : PHP, Java EE and RubyOnRails (ROR). The toolkit also defines ways to drive load against the application in order to measure performance.
Link: Olio Web2.0 Toolkit – Evaluate Web Technologies and Tools
