speedup your site – 2static.it

Since google launched pagespeed add-on for firefox, everybody is talking about how to speedup you site, but there are few instructions about one aspect : the cookieless domain.
We should serve static components( css, images, javascript ) with no cookies at all. Cookies are sent and received each time we make a request to the server. [...]

Website of the day : downloadify.info

Why?
Because “Downloadify is a tiny JavaScript + Flash library that enables the generation and saving of files on the fly, in the browser, without server interaction.”

You can generate in the client side, with no server interaction files that can be saved on the user’s computer.
Think about this:
Downloadify, a clientside persistent storage script ( like persistjs [...]

Website of the day: mockapp.com

MockApp.com gives you for free (you need only to register) a keynote document that allows you to mock up iPhone apps, and even simulate the behaviour ( of course without animation ).

Website of the day: Wix.com

Today’s website is a free online tool for creating Flash websites.
The steps to complete a beautiful Flash website are:

create your account
choose your free template
customize it
publish it
enjoy it.

The free templates that you can edit from are really beatiful and if you explore their gallery you can see that the sky is the limit when [...]

Website of the day: appcelerator.com

Today’s website: appcelerator.com
Why?
Because of the great product they offer for free: Titanium Developer.
Titanium is a tool that allows to webdevelopers to build native iPhone and Android apps without  needing to learn cocoa or java.
It will compile your project and even help you release it.
They have a great section with resources, screencasts, tutorials, code examples and [...]

Website of the day: sequelpro.com

Why:

Because it’s design is sleek and beautiful,

the information on it is very well structured,

because is about mac

and because they offer for FREE the best mysql admin tool for OsX.

iPhone grayscale icons

We’ll try today to bring some icons to be used for the UI of the iPhone. Like the ones below:

The icons should be grayscaled, as the operating system will take care of all the graphic effects –  like the nice aqua gradient, or the background of the button.
Some of the resources presented are free and [...]

Graph scripts – part 1 – javascript

Today I will try to add more resources on the Javascript graphs utilities to create attractive and more intuitive data sets presentations( graphs ).
RGraph
HTML5 – graph library – yes HTML5 so IE users – change your browser, or use google frame. The library uses the latest CANVAS features and is fully documented on the site. It has [...]

Web development on a mac – tools I use

It’s been a year and a half  since I moved on OsX.  Coming from the Linux world it wasn’t that hard  to get used to the new operating system. At that time I had some issues to make the perfect selection of softwares and tools I need for my work.
My expertise is PHP, JS  [...]

CSS Typography – Text replacement techniques

Due the limited number of fonts available for web we need to make use of other techniques to make our design look the way we want.
Most of the time we simply cut the image from the psd file and place it in the html/css. But this has impact over the accessbility of the site and [...]