FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
The extension's core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.
The extension also hooks into context-menus in the HTML and CSS panels, the DOM crumbtrail, and the Inspector, adding options to look up a selected item (ie. search for it in the Reference panel) or to view a code example.
The Rhodes framework is an open source Ruby-based platform for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications. It is similar in concept to MVC frameworks such as Rails, Merb and Camping but much lighter weight (and hence executable on a mobile device) than any of these. Along the way of course, we had to implement Ruby for these device operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM and Symbian).
In general, developer productivity is much higher in Rhodes than writing to diverse native device operating systems and APIs since most of your UI customization can be done in HTML templates (ERB files). Rhodes also provides access to native device capabilities such as GPS and PIM data via an extended set of tags (e.g. ).
This is a masked input plugin for the jQuery javascript library. It allows a user to more easily enter fixed width input where you would like them to enter the data in a certain format (dates,phone numbers, etc). It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox 1.5/2/3, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. A mask is defined by a format made up of mask literals and mask definitions. Any character not in the definitions list below is considered a mask literal. Mask literals will be automatically entered for the user as they type and will not be able to be removed by the user. The following mask definitions are predefined:
* a - Represents an alpha character (A-Z,a-z)
* 9 - Represents a numeric character (0-9)
* * - Represents an alphanumeric character (A-Z,a-z,0-9)Comparison of various scripts that display images and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups
We needed to locate where most of the memory is allocated in our scripts (as some of them became too memory hungry), so I've created memtrack extension. This extension helps us to see unusually big memory allocations in production code.
Almost all modern web applications need, in one way or another, to encrypt their users' passwords. We could say that, from the moment that an application has users, and users sign in using a password, these passwords have to be stored in an encrypted way.
There are some intuitive reasons for this: our data stores can be compromised, and so can our communications. But the most important reason is that we have to think of our users' passwords as sensitive personal data. Their passwords are their key to their privacy, so they are personal, they are sensitive, and no one (not even us) has the right to know them. And we must honor this if we want to gain our user's trust.
Just you and your thoughts
Writing prose in a world as busy as the online world can be hard. Instant messengers, busy websites and other distractions can always get into your way when all you want to do is write. Enter PyRoom
PyRoom is a free editor that stays out your way - and keeps other things out of your way, too. As a fullscreen editor without buttons, widgets, formatting options, menus and with only the minimum of required dialog windows, it doesn't have any distractions and lets you focus on writing and only writing. It is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence v3.
