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This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.
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Scripting.com gave me the link to Plaxo. Plaxo takes the hassle out of keeping your (Outlook) contact list up-to-date. I downloaded and installed - sounds cool.
Update: Uh oh! I appears that my use of this product is backfiring as it's sending messages to all the mailing lists in my address book. I'm going to run and hide now.
Remember this post? I wrote about how much I liked Michael's photo album software. Well, lo and behold, he heard me and sent this e-mail:
Matt,
Hi, and thanks for the mention on your site. =)
My photo album stuff was a reworking in PHP of some other photo album/gallery things I'd seen. Of course everyone is looking for something specific, and I was no different, so I decided I needed to make one with what I wanted. That meant it also had to be XHTML and CSS compliant, and I decided on an all CSS layout for ease of updating (that, and I love CSS, heh).
It's basically a three-tiered approach, with thumbnails, medium-sized images and hi-res versions. It's just one main file in a root directory, and a CSS file, title file, and optional pic info/annotation file in each photo directory. Since the program uses the CSS file in each directory, I can create a different layout for each album. I did a couple of minor changes in some of them just to show that they don't all have to look the same.
What it doesn't do:
Currently it does not do any real image handling such as creating thumbnails. I do all the image editing manually and compile a directory of photos (with their respective subdirectories) and just upload it. The program sees the directory automatically.
Also currently, you have to have all 3 versions of photos. I haven't incorporated an option to replace thumnails with text links, or to use/not use hi-res images.
I plan on putting some of these things in before making the whole thing freely available for public consumption, but if you'd like a copy of it as it is, I'd be happy to send it along with a brief intro on how to use it.
Again, thanks for the mention and the kind words.
Take care.
--michael
I responded to his e-mail and I now have this software in my Inbox - what a guy, eh? Thanks Michael! Now if I can only find the time to experiment and (possibly) implement.
Zeldman points us to iStockPhoto.
iStockPhoto is a collection of over 26,000 royalty-free photos, illustrations, and multimedia files created by a growing international community of artists. The site adds around 1,000 new royalty-free photos each week.
You get 2 free downloads for signing up (or at least I did) and you can purchase 40 download credits (I'm assuming 1 credit per image) for $10. Not a bad deal if you need stock images for a site.
From my Inbox: We are proud to announce the launch of DMXzone. DMXzone is a merger between UDzone, MXzone and DWzone! This is one of the first HTML-ed e-mails I've received where they used CSS instead of <font> tags everywhere.
Macromedia has released a trial version and QuickTime videos of it's newest app, cleverly named Contribute. It looks pretty cool, though I don't know many business types who want to edit/update their own website. They usually prefer to just have someone do the updates for them. I think it'll flop unless it's super cheap - like $50 or something.
Update: I found a good review here.
Update 2: Zeldman says $99 bucks.
I initially found that the latest issue of A List Apart was published via web-graphics.com and then got this tidbit from Zeldman:
In Issue 154 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: âFlash Satayâ by Drew McLellan. "This site uses Flash. This site validates as XHTML. They said it couldnât be done. Now it can be. Have your Flash and standards, too." Please note, the ALA server may be slower than normal due to heavy traffic.
The technique involves using the following code:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="c.swf?path=movie.swf" width="400" height="300"> <param name="movie" value="c.swf?path=movie.swf" /> <img src="noflash.gif" width="200" height="100" alt="" /> </object>
Where c.swf is a container movie to workaround the fact that IE/Windows doesnât stream the movie with this code.
Drew McLellan is the author of Dreamweaver MX Web Development and a member of The Web Standards Projectâs Dreamweaver Task Force. You can follow the progress of this technique on his site.
WebGraphics also has an interesting post with a list of reasons why ease of use doesn't happen on engineering projects - uiweb.com
Your site complies with web standards 'til you embed Flashâat which point your page becomes invalid and your XHTML starts retaining water. Itâs a common problem to which there has never been a solution. Soon there will be. The next issue of A List Apart will publish a technique allowing designers to embed Flash movies while adhering to W3C specs and eliminating code bloat. No, really. Watch this space.
Very cool! I've done a little flash development, but in recent years I've had a friend, James Stark (no blog), do the flash work I get. He's such an awesome animator that he could probably do the Toy Story movie in flash. He's really that good! I'll try to get some of his recent work to show you. If anyone needs Flash work done, let me know.
SWT has created lots of love for Eclipse, and I'm willing to bet I'll write a XUL application in the next couple of years. Russell Jones from DevX.com explains how these might very well be the future of cross-platform GUIs.
The reality of a single cross-language, cross-platform GUI interface programming model is in sight, based on an XML description language supported by fast native runtimes. Will Mozilla, Eclipse, or someone else step in and complete the last mile that gives all developers a common way to design and program fast cross-platform user interfaces?
XUL seems to be simply a combination of XML and JavaScript from this example. So the question is, will you be writing HTML, XML, XHTML or XUL in the next couple of years. To stay ahead of the game, I recommend writing your web-based apps in XHTML (which is XML) and if you migrate to XUL, it'll be easy as pie.
Chimera 0.6 was released the day before Abbie's birthday. The key feature (for me) is the support of Keychain to remember web site passwords. I switched back to Mozilla for a week or so because of this feature, but now I'm back on the juice that Chimera offers. Funny how Phoenix and Chimera have become my favorite browsers in such a short period of time (2 months for Chimera, 2 weeks for Phoenix). I can't wait for the 1.0 releases! I think it'll be tough for them to gain much market share -> folks are just too ingrained in their ways to change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I really like this website for displaying a photo album. I like Russell's Scrapbook as well, and I use Apple's .mac with iPhoto. iPhoto is OK, but the HTML that .mac's "Homepage" application writes is meant for 8 year olds and frustrates me b/c I can't do any advanced HTML editing (although I can download the HTML files and change it that way). I can't beat the ease of iPhoto import/publish, but is it work $100 year when I have my own domain already? I'll stick with it for now, but I'm in the market for alternatives.
