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Periodic Table of the Elements - Josh Duck. Property substitution in web.xml and the Jetty Plugin : simon's weblog. Many web applications are configured via web.xml.

Property substitution in web.xml and the Jetty Plugin : simon's weblog

Another example is where Spring configuration files are provided via the contextConfigLocation context parameter. Jdbc:jtds MS SQL2000/2005 instance - setting connection string - John’s Blog.

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Wireframes, Prototypes, Specifications. Formalize CSS. Formalize CSS | View demo | Download | GitHub repo Formalize CSS — Dress up your forms!

Formalize CSS

Intro As designers, we are used to having quite a bit of control over how things are displayed in a browser. Sure, differing rendering engines don’t always agree on everything, but for the most part we can at least find ways to mitigate variance through workarounds, or by writing for the lowest common denominator. By far, one of the most frustrating parts of dealing with browser inconsistencies has got to be forms. Some designers advocate styling form elements to match the brand of a site. That’s all well and good, except most browsers don’t mesh completely when it comes to OS consistency. I would say that I fall somewhere in the middle of the two camps. My Solution. 20 Snippets You should be using from Html5 Boilerplate. I recently, as many web designers and developers will have, became aware of a fantastic resource put together by web developer, Paul Irish, and Divya Manian.

20 Snippets You should be using from Html5 Boilerplate

Html5 Boilerplate, as they have named it, is a powerful starting off point for any website or web application. As Paul Irish describes it; “It’s essentially a good starting template of html and css and a folder structure that works., but baked into it is years of best practices from front-end development professionals.” It is absolutely packed full of fantastic snippets of code that are still very much worth using even if you don’t want to start using html5 boilerplate as your base template.

Html We will start off by checking out some of the html snippets used in the resource. Favicon and Apple icons The favicon is pretty much normality these day. the interesting bit here is the apple-touch-icon which is used if you save a bookmark to your home screen on an apple touch device such as an iPad or iPhone. Faster page load hack Css. Categories, Links, and Tags. Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification.

Categories, Links, and Tags

" The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks. Five Principles to Design By. Five high-level principles that guide my design. The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product. Social products are an interesting bird.

The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product

For even the most experienced product designer, social products prove an elusive lover. While there are many obvious truths in social products, there are also alot of ways to design them poorly. Especially when you are deep in the moment making pixel-level decisions trying to remember what’s important, things may not be so clear. The only magic I’ve found in designing compelling social products that have the best shot at breaking through the noise and capturing people’s time and money is in being extremely clear on how your social product meets a few key design principles. Hypertext Now: Hot Wired Style. If I was slow to read Jeffrey Veen's Hot Wired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites, my tardiness may in part be excused by the title.

Hypertext Now: Hot Wired Style

The Wired style is so well known, so idiosyncratic, and so recognizable, that a style guide seems almost redundant. Fortunately, the title is wrong. This isn't a style guide, it's an expanded case study: a description of the philosophy and implementation decisions that underlie a popular and ever-changing family of Web sites. Full WEB 2.0 API List. Sencha Touch Overview - Mobile Web App Development for Android & iPhone. Usability Toolkit. 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design. About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily.

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running … More about Vitaly Friedman … Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist. Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a website. Please notice that you might be interested in the usability-related articles we’ve published before: Unlimited Downloads: 500,000+ HTML5 Templates, Mockups, Photos & Design Assets (ad)

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HTML5 Mini Template