How to Survive 100,000 Visitors
Do you think your site can survive Digg-effect if it is hosted on Virtual Private Server with 256 MB RAM?
If you think it is not possible, then you’d better read this article.
Web Tool to Create Rounded Corner
Cornershop is a free web tool to generate rounded corner boxes.
When you click Create Graphics, you will get four images, CSS code, and HTML code that you can use to make your own rounded-corner boxes.
Free Apress Books
Good news for book lovers. Apress gives you ebooks completely free of charge. Although the books are a bit old, the content is still relevant for day-to-day programming tasks. The topics ranges from PHP, Java, .NET, Perl, LISP, etc.
Click here to access to the free ebooks.
Edit CSS Live in FireFox and IE
Do you know you can edit your CSS code live in both FireFox and IE?
Meet CSSVista, a free Windows applications that lets you edit your CSS code live in FireFox and Internet Explorer. Using CSSVista, you can test your web application without switching browsers
Download CSSVista version 0.15 for Windows XP/Vista here.
jQuery UI
jQuery UI is a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Some of the features include drag and dropping, sorting, selecting, and resizing.
The library has a number of reusable widgets, including accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, table sorters, tabs, magnifier, and shadow.
Supernote Popup Tooltips
Supernote is a pop up tooltip library based on CSS and Javascript. Some of the features include:
- Pure CSS formatting
- Nested tooltip in unlimited level - the tooltip can contain another tooltip
- Accessible HTML elements used to construct the tooltip - maintains excellent search engine
- The tooltip can be activated by hover or clicking the link
The library is free to use, however, you are required to include credit link to author’s web site. Alternatively, you can donate to support the library if you want to use in your web site without a credit link.
Yahoo!’s Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Yahoo! has come out with rules and tools on how to speed up your web site.
- Guidelines: Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site - a must read for web developers
- Tool: YSlow - analyze web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites (read the announcement here)
- Slide: download slide from Web 2.0 Expo conference
As a bonus, Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo for Yahoo! and author of the upcoming book High Performance Web Sites, shows in video the details about Yahoo!’s best practices for providing optimal performance on their site.
Stylish File Input with CSS
File input (<input type=”file”/>) is always a challenge because of its ugly and non-consistency look in different browsers and different OS.
Shaun Inman, the creator of Mint, has come out with a stylish file input library using CSS and Javascript. The library works in IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.5+, and Safari 2+.
Click here for the demo.
Note: Unfortunately the script on demo page doesn’t seem to work in Firefox 2.0.0.6 under Ubuntu.
Programmer’s Life in Cartoon
Eleven stages of programmer’s life in cartoon. Hope it can brighten your day especially after coding and debugging. 
Enjoy!
Free Tool to Find Good Color Scheme
While designing web pages, we need to find good color scheme. Finding the good combination of colors, i.e. which colors can be together and which ones cannot, could be long and difficult.
One way to choose good color combination is to choose colors intuitively by sensing which colors can coexist with and which ones cannot. Of course, there is an easier way to find good color scheme. Using a good tool can help you to find set of colors you can start with, and it may facilitate your looking for the optimal color palette.
Color Tools 2.0.8 Alpha is one of many free web tools available on the Internet. It can help you to generate a color scheme based on one color you choose. All colors together will make the best optical impression. You can use It freely in your project.
