Macro Linz » 2007

November 22, 2007

Filed under: Bookmarks | Lindsay @ 12:17 pm

JavaScript-based Amazon Web Services Simple Monthly Calculator

Handy: a calculator for figuring out how much it will cost to store and retrieve data on S3.

(tags: amazon amazons3 tools)
Clips: New WoW Ads Recruit Mr. T and Shatner

Great ads for WoW featuring Mr. T and Will Shatner. Teh Awesome.

(tags: humor geekstuff wow videos)
HowToStyleInPlaceEditorWithCss in Ruby on Rails

A guide on how to style the Edit-in-place control that is built in with Rails. Good to have.

(tags: ruby codsnippets rubyonrails tutorials web development css design)
GameSpy: Episode 14: The Scarlet Hootenanny

My favorite Flintlocke installment: “I lewt teh hat.”

(tags: humor geekstuff wow comics)
perfection kills » Script.aculo.us

Some examples of the powerful features of Prototype for extending elements with some useful code samples.

(tags: ajax ria tutorials codesnippets css libraries web development design troubleshooting javascript)

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stu nicholls dot com | gallery - left right click

Stu Nicholls is always a great person to watch for awesome demonstrations of the power of CSS. This is a nice, simple photo display gallery.

(tags: css web development design codesnippets tutorials)
Tidy Stylesheets in Rails - Push cx

A method for including view-based stylesheets in your page renderings. Handy for splitting out that CSS that really only goes with a single view.

(tags: rubyonrails rails codesnippets css web development tutorials)

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Buy Tikis, Hand Carved Tikis & Thatch - Tropical Tiki Product Imports - The Official Website

Another cool online Tiki store to furnish our backyard retreat. This one has the bamboo poles I’m looking for and splits!

(tags: tiki home decorating merchandise shopping store)

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mezzoblue § CSS Crib Sheet

A good checklist of things to do when trying to debug hairy CSS issues. Also has links to some of the good references for creating hasLayout in IE and dealing with clearing floats properly.

(tags: css web development troubleshooting tips guide)
Digital Web Magazine - Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design

A good reference about the PNG graphics format and what you can do with it in various browsers.

(tags: web development graphics css design troubleshooting guide)
Max Design - Colored boxes - Step 6. Colored boxes

A tutorial on setting up standard web page layouts with floated columns, headers and footers. A good basic sample layout to steal and start coding from in the “positioning the footer” link.

(tags: css web development design guide codesnippets tutorials)