10.01.08

Useful tools for hacking CSS

Posted in development tools, internet tagged , , , , , at 3:22 pm by itisanillusion

I was whacking CSS stuff for the Flo Tuition website. Below are some useful tools I found that has aided me in the process.

  • ShadedBorder – JavaScript Round Corners with Drop Shadow: This script helps to give my CSS boxes round corners, including the borders. This reduces the effort of generating a lot of corner images if you have a lot of different boxes to apply to.
  • CSS Color Chart: I used this as a reference for colors. They have a nice chart with the actual colors and hexadecimal codes.
  • 3 Column Layouts: This page tells me how to have a column fluid layout with minimal fuss and the pictures made it easy to understand.

    05.22.08

    Open Graphics Project and OGD1

    Posted in development tools, hardware tagged , , , at 3:22 am by itisanillusion

    The Open Graphics Project is a open source hardware project in graphics cards. The OGD1 is the first commercial version of the project.

    05.21.08

    GNU Radio and USRP

    Posted in development tools, hardware, software tagged , , at 2:50 pm by itisanillusion

    GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides the signal processing runtime and processing blocks to implement software radios using readily-available, low-cost external RF hardware and commodity processors. The Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, is device which allows you to create a software radio using any computer with a USB 2 port.

    Google App Engine

    Posted in development tools, freeware, internet tagged , , , at 2:36 pm by itisanillusion

    Google App Engine enables building of web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

    Yahoo! Pipes

    Posted in development tools, freeware, internet tagged , , at 1:20 pm by itisanillusion

    Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

    Processing.js

    Posted in development tools, freeware, internet tagged , , , at 1:12 pm by itisanillusion

    The Processing visualization language has been ported to Javascript using the Canvas element.

    jQuery

    Posted in development tools, freeware, internet tagged , , at 10:06 am by itisanillusion

    jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.