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  • Jul
  • 02
  • 2008

Google, Yahoo spiders can now crawl through Flash sites

Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.

This announcement may also result in some major usability changes (for the better) for Flash on the web. In a post to its Webmaster Central Blog, Google wrote that it can now index all kinds of textual content in SWF files, like that…

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  • Jun
  • 16
  • 2008

40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks

Heres 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you dont even knew the keywords to search for.

Writely is one of my favorte Web 2.0 apps. It’s a full-fledged web-based word processor that you can access from anywhere. Think of it as Microsoft Word for the Web.

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  • May
  • 23
  • 2008

Rails For Beginners: All You Need To Know! [Ruby & Rails]

If you've ever read any beginner's articles about Ruby on Rails, you'll know that quite a bit of thought has been put into the code base that makes up the Rails framework. In this article, I'll help beginners take that next step by examining the inner workings of Rails.

In the development environment, changes to an application's source code are immediately visible; all we need to do is reload the corresponding page in a web browser. Speed is not a critical factor in this environment. Instead, the focus is on…

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  • May
  • 21
  • 2008

How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 2: Interlude - Coding the Wheel

…everything necessary to build what's quickly becoming the de facto standard in online poker botting: a sophisticated parallel processing rig incorporating collusion AI, massive hand history databases, and real-time information flow to dominate the opposition. This is where the world is headed…

We took a break from the source code in this installment as I don't want to alienate too quickly the readers who've subscribed in the past week. In the next installment, we're going to have to plunge right back in, beginning with an…

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  • May
  • 12
  • 2008

sontek ( John M. Anderson ) » Python with a modular IDE (Vim)

How to get Vim setup to be a powerful IDE for python, Including code completion, call tips, integration with pydoc, and debugging.

Vim already has built in syntax highlighting for python but I have a small tweak to vim to give you notifications of small syntax errors like forgetting a colon after a for loop. Create a file called ~/.vim/syntax/python.vim and add the following…

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  • May
  • 06
  • 2008

25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

WYSIWYG-editors are often criticized by real coding ninjas for bloated, dirty and not standards-complaint source code theyve been producing over the last years. However, WYSIWYG-editors become much better recently. Some of them even produce valid and elegant code.

To make a long story even longer, during this time of learning HTML I was working for an online advertising company that wanted to branch out into building sites for some of their clients. I was tasked with the job since I had build a few sites at…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

The “Hello World” Program, in 366 Programming Languages!

“Hello World” is the traditional first program you write when learning a new language, first appearing in K&R’s “The C Programming Language” book in 1978. Since then it has been implemented in almost every programming language on the planet. This collection has it in 366 coding languages (even LOLCode!) and 58 human ones! Is your favourite here?

Hello World in BIT. No comments possible. LINENUMBERZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONELINENUMBERONECODEPRINTONEGOTOONEZEROLINENUMBE RONEZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEONELINENUMBERONEONECODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEZEROZEROLINE…

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2008

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides | CSS | Smashing Magazine

Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the layout, numerous classes as well as the color scheme youve used in the project. In CSS-files sensible structuring can drastically reduce complexity, improve code management and consequently simplify maintainability.

When writing the code, often it’s useful to apply some special formatting to order CSS properties — to make the code more readable, more structured and therefore more intuitive. There is a variety of schemes developers use…

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  • Apr
  • 24
  • 2008

NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery

One of the biggest challenge to web designers is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue. Today we're going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript.

<div id=”tabbed_box_1″ class=”tabbed_box”> <h4>Browse Site <small>Select a Tab</small></h4> <div class=”tabbed_area”> <ul class=”tabs”>…

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  • Apr
  • 05
  • 2008

Dive into Python - From Novice to Pro [free & legal book download]

Dive Into Python is a free online hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together again in a summary at the end.
A GREAT opportunity for you who have been thinking about learning Python for a while now…go for it! :)

Want to mirror this web site? Publish this book on your corporate intranet? Distribute it on CD-ROM? Feel free. This book is published under the GNU Free Documentation License, which gives you enormous freedoms to modify and redistribute it in…

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  • Apr
  • 01
  • 2008

Two CSS vertical menu with show/hide effects

This is a tutorial with two CSS vertical menu examples with show/hide menu effect. First example uses a simple JavaScript code. Second example uses mootools to show/hide the menu with a nice vertical slide-in/slide-out effect.

I like the effect and the code is quite light. Nice!

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  • Mar
  • 31
  • 2008

Learn Python in 10 minutes | Poromenos’s Stuff

So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can't find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes.

well I think there is some mix up here, object references are values, that is the variables are like normal primitive types so when u pass the reference in a function the reference is passed by value, but remember its pointing to an object. so if…

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  • Mar
  • 28
  • 2008

iDesign Studios Blog » Blog Archive » 6 Phases of the Web Design & Development Process

Great in depth article outlining the numerous phases of web design

Once you give your web designer final approval, it is time to deliver the site. An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program is used to upload the web site files to your server. Most web designers offer domain name registration and web hosting…