Otto provides a good breakdown of how to use the built-in image and gallery handling of WordPress. I need to reference this and beef up the appropriate parts of my Formattd theme.
Photo Gallery Primer » Otto on WordPress
Tags: wordpress, gallery, images, themes, templates, webdev
I got all of my VPS servers updated to the latest version of Ubuntu (11.04) the other day, and fixed the MailScanner spam filter on my mail server. Whew!
As an added bonus, my web server is also running the newest versions of Apache, PHP, and APC.
Rather cool site with a free mathematics software for learning geometry and algebra. Browser/Java-based, with ability to run offline.
Tags: geogebra, geometry, algebra, math, tools, education, learning
Tried upgrading Ubuntu on my mail server. Broke MailScanner config. Had to scramble to figure out how to reconfig postfix to deliver mail directly, instead of holding it for MailScanner to pick up. I really need to find a way to migrate away from doing my own email admin.
“PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.”
PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API
Tags: browsers, javascript, js, testing, webkit, headless, automation, scripting, screenscraping, webdev
“JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.”
Tags: javascript, webdev, languages, js, programming
The devil’s in the details. The *slight* difference between JSON strings and Javascript strings that you might need to watch out for.
JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn’t — Timeless
Tags: webdev, json, javascript, unicode, strings, standards
Another web design image placeholder service.
lorempixum – placeholder images for every case
Tags: images, placeholder, lorempixum, webdesign, mockups, design, graphics
Test your site load speed from various locations around the world, and in different browsers.
loads.in – test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser …
Tags: webdev, performance, webservices, speed, pagespeed