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*Miscellaneous Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete

The problem is that HTTP requests are a major performance bottleneck for web pages. The more requests you have, the longer it takes your page to load and the slower it is. In short, data URIs allow you to embed images (and other files) directly into HTML and CSS. Since all of the data is represented locally, there is no extra HTTP request required to access the information. Tags: website, performance, optimization, http, sprites, data uri, base 64, encoding

*Programming New York Times-Style Text Selection Widget Using MooTools or jQuery

NYT’s text selection widget listens for text selection and presents the user with a "search" icon they may click on to learn more about that term. Tags: javascript, jquery, mootools, text, selection, search

*Miscellaneous Uni-Form

Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms. Choose between most common form layouts by simply assigning a css class to the fieldset element in order to get a different layout. Tags: javascript, jquery, form, validation, ux

*Programming Everything You Need to Get Started With CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a web application framework for PHP. It enables developers to build web applications faster, and it offers many helpful code libraries and helpers which speed up tedious tasks in PHP. Tags: codeigniter, php, framework, open source

*Programming Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 2

This week, we'll do a little bit more with getting an actual page up and running. We'll also work on adding more interactivity by embedding ruby in HTML and learning a little about variables. After that, we'll learn more about Ruby's beautiful URL structure and how to manipulate it, plus other things as well. Tags: ruby on rails, ruby, mvc

*HTML/CSS SlickMap CSS

A simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences. Tags: website, sitemap, list, navigation