a weblog by Ed Eliot

Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity. - Michael Johnson

Online Tools

• CSS Sprite Generator A tool for generating CSS sprite images.
• Favicon Generator A tool for creating favicons - convert an existing image or create one from scratch with the included editor.

Elsewhere

13th August 2008

• The Complete Guide for You to Become an Almighty jQuery Developer | Effectize A huge list of links to jquery tutorials and resources.
• The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library Yahoo! has released an early preview of YUI 3 - the next generation of their JavaScript library.

22nd May 2008

• Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture A frank post about Twitter's recent availability problems and how they plan to solve.
• Debugging Django Notes following Simon's presentation at the London Django User Group on available debugging options within Django and Python.

15th May 2008

• In the Arms of Strangers » Blog Archive » Django Admin Omnigraffle Stencil - Alex Lee's Blog OmniGraffle stencils for designing Django admin interfaces provided by a colleague at work.
• SearchMonkey - YDN A really exciting development from Yahoo! which lets content publishers customise their results in Yahoo! search.

14th May 2008

• Session variables without cookies A pretty insane but clever method for storing data persistently on the client side.
• MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 7.5.4.1 How the Query Cache Operates An explanation of how the MySql query cache works.
• MySQL SELECT Entries Before NOW() | Hello, I am Sean Murphy Using now() in MySql queries can be inefficient. This post describes an alternative.

12th May 2008

• Is Michael Arrington One of the World's Most Influential People? | Fast Company Umm, well known in the IT industry, yes - ask the average punter on the street who he is, however, and they wouldn't have a clue.

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