102 posts tagged “webdev”

I think I've just worked out why this happens ! Maybe it's because the text font size (in the CSS file) has been specified in pixels (px) instead of points (pt) !

i.e.

body { font-size: 12px; }

instead of

body { font-size: 12pt; }

This seems to be the problem with the WikkaWiki CSS style sheets so i've created a ticket http://wush.net/trac/wikka/ticket/764 and fixed my own WikkaWiki sites !

PHP Unit Testing introduction at ONLamp Testing PHP Code with PHPUnit

PHPUnit

• Installing PHPUnit
• Writing PHPUnit tests
• Running PHPUnit tests

I use the GNU diff utilities all the time but thanks to ohloh i've just discovered there are also plenty of graphical / visual comparison / difference tools & utilitys such as

• jdiff
• kdiff3 (2-way & 3-way diffs)
  
• kompare
  
• meld
  
• tkdiff

and the very exciting sounding

• svn-time-lapse-view

Which diff tool / utility do you use the most ?

I've been readin the Apache Httpd Logs documentation for version 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2 :

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/logs.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html

and noticed that in Apache Httpd 2.2 there are a couple of new modules / features that could be very useful for any development servers you run !

mod_logio adds in two additional LogFormat fields (%I and %O) that log the actual number of bytes received and sent on the network.

mod_log_forensic provides for forensic logging of client requests. Logging is done before and after processing a request, so the forensic log contains two log lines for each request. The forensic logger is very strict with no customizations. It can be an invaluable debugging and security tool.

Run your favorite browser and in the address bar replace "http://www.vox.com/" with "javascript:document.body.innerHTML=navigator.userAgent" and you should see a UserAgent value similar to one of the following:

• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
• Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20080418 Firefox/1.5.0.12
• Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
• Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.13

Safari Web Inspector provides great web developer statistics about your web pages !

Install and run Safari on OS-X or XP !

 

edit | prefs | advanced | develop menu

develop | show web inspector

or

develop | show network timeline

http://www.flickr.com/photos/osde-info/2432958123/

safari web inspector

 

CSS compressors

• http://www.cleancss.com/
• http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor/
• http://www.roscripts.com/Compress_CSS_code-99.html
• http://iceyboard.no-ip.org/projects/css_compressor
  

http://vizzr.info/2008/04/10/amazon-ec2-vs-google-app-engine/

PS Sorry that this is a link to a link to a link but it does mean I'm not repeating myself too much !

WebKit is an open source web content engine for browsers and other applications.

WebKit value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, security, portability, usability, and relative ease of understanding and modifying the code (hackability).

As a very recent convert to Adobe AIR I've just discovered that Adobe Flex is also Open Source. In fact I've discovered that there are quite a few Adobe Open Source initiatives

See also

• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home
  
• http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html