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ShareLast week I encountered a situation with one of our web apps that required a toggle-able table row. Essentially the existing table was populated with information from four different tables. In addition to several joins there were some nested queries, and it was killing the MySQL server.
So, I decided to pull the information [...]

ShareSmashing Magazine is more for the web “design” and photoshop crowd, but any developers working with GUI/front ends at all (which is most of us) will find tons of great information there.  Chris Blatnik says that it is the GUI that makes or breaks an app (after all, the users never see the code, no [...]

ShareAs someone who considers himself a developer first and a designer second, I’ve not previously put a lot of thought into using graphical tools (outside of HTML and my existing dev environment) to prototype front-end layouts for customers.
However, there are some major advantages to mocking up with a stand-alone tool. Once I have a [...]

ShareCow’s Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers – Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera 9+. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing. Best of all, [...]

ShareIf you’re a web developer, chances are you’ve grown to hate Internet Explorer 6 due to its inconsistencies with respect to CSS, JavaScript, and standards in general.  One additional annoyance is IE6’s lack of support for PNG transparency.
At my institution, we still have a very large installed base for IE6 (over 70% of our machines), [...]

ShareFor those that haven’t already found this great set of application icons, I present to you the Fam Fam Fam “Silk” icon set. I’ve been using these for a couple of months and just love the modern look and the fact that over 700 icons means you’re certain to always find the icon you need [...]