pelago

Publicly displayed email addresses (in HTML) can be protected by coding them using their ascii character entities with the help of this tool. My thought is, how soon is it before email bots change their tactics and render this technique is unusable?

Here’s a great primer for developers who are interested in writing compliant css and html:

…the best thing you can do is give yourself a clean slate. Throw out your assumptions and expectations. For that matter, throw out everyone’s assumptions and expectations. Roll up your sleeves and learn something new. When it comes to layout and production, resolve to remove “but”? and “should”? from your professional vocabulary for a while. Replace them with “how”? and “why”? and commit to meeting your project objectives.

1. Everything you know is wrong… sort of…
2. It’s not going to look exactly the same everywhere unless you’re willing to face some grief… and possibly not even then
3. You will be forced to choose between the ideal and the practicable
4. Perfection is not when there’s nothing to add, but when there’s nothing to take away
5. Some sites are steaming heaps of edge cases
6. Longer lead times are inevitable
7. Coherent and sensible source order is the best of Good Things
8. Descendant selectors are the beginning and end of genuinely powerful CSS rules
9. In the real world, stylesheet hacks will get your project across the finish line
10. Working around rendering bugs is like playing Whack-a-Mole
11. When you’re drowning in CSS layout problems, make sure of the width and height of the water, float without putting up a struggle, and get clear of the problems
12. Background images will make the difference between the plain and the tastefully embellished

gotAPI.com is an API documentation hub containing info to many web development languages such as PHP and Javascript DOM.

Language modules can be added/deleted from the navigation for further customization.

http://www.gotapi.com/

Zen Cart can be a tricky beast (not just for developer’s but for folks that have to actually use the admin interface), but at least support for it continues to grow. I just stumbled across this Wiki:

Zen Cart Wiki

We’ve been advocating and using this methodology ourselves. Starting with paper is definitely the quickest design methodology that exists because it’s easy to change 100 times before you commit to anything.

Creating an Interaction Design from SAP.

Google Trends is another voyeuristic tool to see what others are searching for. I decided to check a few key words in our industry. Here are the results:

Web Dev

Web Design

Ecommerce

Web Applications

Summary: A whole lot of over seas action…

The launch of Intervals (web based task and time management) was picked up by postgreSQL.org.

TextSnippets.

562 users tagging and storing useful source code snippets.

Very useful IMO. Its like my proto site on steroids.

Jaime

I just installed this extension, it works pretty good when browsing ad-heavy sites.

The way it works is it overlays a clickable icon where ever there’s a flash movie. Installing is easy, just download and install this file.

Jaime

Santa Barbara Newspress - Filing Cabinet
June 13, 2006 8:03 AM

Local Web development company Pelago has launched a new Web-based service it dubbed Intervals, which continues the trend of “software as a service” moving applications off your computer and onto the Web (where other people worry about the technical stuff and update the programs more often than most of us would).

Designed to help freelancers and small businesses track tasks and time, “we originally developed it to make our own business more efficient,” writes project manager Michael Payne, “and got a lot of requests to turn it into a product, so we re-developed it.” Take a look at www.intervals101.com.

Pelago, by the way, has offices on East Montecito Street near Milpas and has been around since 2000.