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“You will notice that there are no micro coding tips & tricks below. No info on how to make a fast for loop or such. The tips I post is what I think you should do to learn how to learn those tricks for yourself. In all, this list is a little softer around the edges and goes mostly for the background things. Most noticeably you will see things that are totally opposite to what most recognized people say about how to code.”

“I was reading through the mails in the php-general mailing list and came across this mail by Rasmus about AJAX: ‘I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have been using similar things long before it became ‘AJAX’. And it really isn’t as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be. Here is a simple example from one of my apps…’”

“There’s a very nice trick you can use to force-reload images that are delivered by a script (such as the Hiveware Image Rotator) but get stored in a browser’s cache. To understand the Trick and why you might need to use it, you first need to understand the problem with web browsers. “

“pastebin is here to help you collaborate on debugging code snippets. If you’re not familiar with the idea, most people use it like this: * submit a code fragment to pastebin, getting a url like http://pastebin.com/1234; * paste the url into an IRC or IM conversation; * someone responds by reading and perhaps submitting a modification of your code; * you then view the modification, maybe using the built in diff tool to help locate the change.”

“Codefetch’s mission is to connect programmers and authors so that programmers get the information they need, and the work of authors is supported and encouraged… Codefetch uses and supports open source software, and is an affiliate of the Open Technology Business Center. Codefetch’s code excerpts connect users of open source software with great books about those software products — spurring the continuing development of top-quality documentation for open source software.” (Thanks a.wholelottanothing.org!)

“This tutorial is aimed at those who have a working knowledge of Javascript. So the examples are not explained in great detail. Only the important parts are highlighted. I have presented 9 Javascript examples that I have found very useful while designing professional websites.”

“Ajax is an awesome technology that is driving a new generation of web apps, from maps.google.com to colr.org to backpackit.com. But Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems. I’ve compiled a list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make. Javascript itself is a dangerous UI technology, but I’ve tried to keep the list to problems particular to Ajax development…”

“You know that feeling at the grocery store express lane when you find out that the person in front of you actually has 74 items, a book of coupons, a checkbook and arthritis? That’s the feeling I get after clicking on an innocent looking link that goes to a PDF unexpectedly.”

“script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style.”

“A cross-browser JavaScript DHTML library which adds drag and drop functionality to layers and to any desired image, even those integrated into the text flow.”

Javascript/DHTML functions that enable web page elements to fade, scale, appear etc…

“Try annotating parts of an image. Choose your image first (or play with the sample photo). Then select region, annotate it, and finally an RDF will be generated.”

“Edit in place (also called in-place editing) follows the axiom Alan Cooper calls ‘allow input wherever you have output.’ The combobox — a form element unfortunately absent from HTML — demonstrates this. In the same place where the current selection is displayed, the user can enter a value directly.”

“I just finished making a little Flickr toy: flickReplacr. It’s a bookmarklet that seems to work fairly well in IE and Firefox/Mozilla (Safari - not so much). What does it do? You can highlight any word on any web page, click the flickReplacr bookmarklet, and the word gets swapped out with a random image from flickr that was tagged with that word. So “apple” becomes a 75×75 image of an apple.”