Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices - Nettuts+
A guide covering best practices for optimizing MySQL database design, queries, and performance.
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im.kayac.com
Announcement of the closure of im.kayac.com service as of October 31, 2017, with recommendations for alternative notification services.
deensoft - ProtoChart
Bar Charts
Open Comic Book Database
An open-source database platform for cataloging and organizing comic book collections.
eBay Trading Web Services
This is a categorized index of eBay Trading API calls organized by function, including standard listing operations, order management, offers and leads, buyer-seller communication, metadata retrieval, user account management, and eBay Stores operations. Each category groups related API calls that serve a specific purpose in the eBay selling and buying workflow, from creating and managing listings to processing orders and communicating with other members. The index serves as a navigation tool to help developers find the appropriate API calls for their specific needs rather than searching through an alphabetical list.
Chapter 4. Branching and Merging
A branch is a line of development that diverges from another line while maintaining a shared history, like creating separate copies of a document that evolve independently but can still share common changes. Subversion implements branching through copy operations that remember the relationship between the original and copied versions, allowing developers to track and synchronize changes across parallel branches. The system supports creating branches, merging changes between them, and even mixing different branches within a single working copy.
Opensource Software
An overview or article about free and open-source software projects and principles.
UI-patterns.com
This page is a resource hub for UI design patterns—reusable solutions to common design problems organized into categories like navigation, data handling, onboarding, and persuasive design. It offers both physical card decks ($49 each) and digital collections covering UX patterns, business models, and cognitive/behavioral principles, along with curated screenshot libraries of real-world implementations like pricing tables and account registration flows. The site positions design patterns as a reference tool to help designers understand and solve recurring problems by studying proven examples.
Prototype UI
A guide or example demonstrating the process of creating user interface prototypes.
Bit Twiddling Hacks
This is a comprehensive reference collection of bit manipulation techniques and algorithms for common low-level computing operations, with thoroughly tested code snippets offered in the public domain. The collection covers methods for operations like counting set bits, reversing bit sequences, finding logarithms, detecting powers of two, and manipulating individual bits—each with multiple approaches optimized for different trade-offs between speed, memory usage, and portability. The author notes that all code has been verified and offers a bounty for any bugs found.
Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Be Common APIs For Building Social Apps
Google launched OpenSocial, a set of standardized APIs enabling developers to build applications that work across multiple social networks simultaneously, rather than forcing them to write separate code for each platform. Unlike Facebook's proprietary FBML approach, OpenSocial uses standard JavaScript and HTML, making it easier for developers to adapt existing code and deploy across hosts like Orkut, LinkedIn, Ning, and Friendster. The initiative addresses developer frustration with the costs of maintaining applications across fragmented platforms and positions Google as a central intermediary controlling access to social network data.
Google LatLong: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps
Posted by Jess Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps Today we're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to...
Full WEB 2.0 API List | Tech Magazine
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blueprintcss - Google Code
Blueprint CSS is an open-source CSS framework for web design that provides a grid system and typography tools for faster development.
CFCDoc revamped
CFCDoc Revamped is an improved ColdFusion documentation generator that creates real-time Javadoc-style HTML documentation from CFC (ColdFusion Component) files, with support for CF8's cfInterface tag. The tool reorganizes and cleans up code structure while adding features like lazy-loading for large component packages and server-specific root configuration. As of March 2008, development shifted to a Java command-line version, making version 0.42 a maintenance release.
Warehouse — Subversion Browser
A web-based browser and management tool for Subversion version control repositories.
15 Seconds : Debugging a SQL Stored Procedure from inside SQL Server 2000 Query Analyzer
A quick guide to debugging SQL stored procedures using SQL Server 2000's Query Analyzer tool.
ONLamp.com -- The Power of Google Gears (Part 1)
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Google Gears (BETA)
Google announced it was discontinuing Gears, its browser extension framework for enabling advanced web application features, because those capabilities had been adopted into the HTML5 standard and were now being implemented natively across major browsers. The company had successfully migrated Gears' key functionality—offline support through application caches, local data storage via IndexedDB, file handling, geolocation, notifications, and web workers—into standardized APIs that would reach far more developers than the proprietary extension ever could. Gears would be removed from Chrome and receive no further updates, though its open-source code would remain available.
Javascript - Mouse Events
This technical guide explains the mechanics of mouse events in JavaScript, covering the sequence and behavior of mousedown, mouseup, click, and dblclick events, as well as mousemove, mouseover, and mouseout. It addresses practical problems like event bubbling causing unexpected triggers and provides cross-browser code solutions for tracking mouse movement between elements using relatedTarget, fromElement, and toElement properties. The text also introduces Microsoft's mouseenter and mouseleave events as alternatives that bypass bubbling complications in layer-based navigation systems.