Archive | April, 2009

25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements

This article will cover the following elements:

* Form Skinning
* Form Validation
* Masking
* File Uploader
* Checkbox & Radio Button
* Spin Button & Slider
* Auto Complete
* Calendar & Time picker
* Drop Down Menu (Select Element)
* Color Picker
* Textarea
(Link: 25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements)

Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus « Steve Blank

Corner Cases
A corner case is an objection that may be:
1. technically reasonable
2. may have a probability of occurring
3. its probability of occurring is lower than your probability of running out of money.

I’ve noticed that corner case comments are directly proportional to the intelligence of the people in the room. The smarter the team the more objections you’ll have – and they’ll all be technically and theoretically possible.
(Link: Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus « Steve Blank)

Dealing with Duplicate Person Data

In this article we’ll look at some strategies that I used to identify and remove these duplicates. All code in this article are samples, and we’ll leave the task of assembling them into a final working program up to the reader.
(Link: Dealing with Duplicate Person Data)

Michael Cote on the Sun Acquisition

Java has been an independent enough entity for long enough that screwing it up is difficult to do. Put another way, it’s BigCo interests have been mucking around with the Java world for so long that it can’t really get worse.
(Link: Michael Cote on the Sun Acquisition)

pubsubhubbub – Google Code

A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol. Includes an open source reference implementation that runs on Google App Engine.

Decentralized and free. Anybody can run a server or anybody can use an open server (like our reference implementation).
(Link: pubsubhubbub – Google Code)

Usabilla – Transparent Usability – Visual Feedback

Create an online test and start collecting visual feedback for your website or image in five minutes.
(Link: Usabilla – Transparent Usability – Visual Feedback)

JavaScriptDB: Persevere’s New High-Performance Storage Engine

The latest beta of Persevere features a new native object storage engine called JavaScriptDB that provides high-end scalability and performance. Persevere now outperforms the common PHP and MySQL combination for accessing data via HTTP by about 40% and outperforms CouchDB by 249%.

via SitePen Blog » JavaScriptDB: Persevere’s New High-Performance Storage Engin

Adobe Strobe

Strobe further broadens the reach and capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform, the No. 1 technology for video on the Web. According to comScore Media Metrix, approximately 80 percent of online videos viewed worldwide are delivered using Adobe Flash technology. Adobe Flash Player—already installed on 98 percent of Internet-connected desktops—gives viewers access to rich content without having to download additional software.
(Link: Adobe Strobe)

Open Applicant – a free open source applicant tracking system (ATS)

Open Applicant is a powerful Applicant Tracking and Candidate Assessment tool available to the public. Through our developer community, Open Applicant is able to bring a wide variety of features and capabilities to Human Resource Professionals and Hiring Managers to make the recruiting and hiring process easy and effective.
(Link: Open Applicant – a free open source applicant tracking system (ATS))

Ruby Proxies for Scale and Monitoring

EM-Proxy is a barebones proxy implemented with Ruby EventMachine which uses the reactor pattern for handling network connections. The performance overhead in the simplest proxy implementation is roughly 3-5% in the latency – a very low cost for the added functionality. Best of all, it is only ~300 lines of Ruby start to finish, and easily extensible. Take a look through the source, it’s a powerful and wonderful hammer!
(Link: Ruby Proxies for Scale and Monitoring)

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