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PersistJS is a client-side JavaScript persistent storage library.

window.name or cookie are a bit old school ;-)

Tonic is an open source less is more, RESTful Web application development PHP library designed to do things "the right way", where resources are king and the library gets out of the way and leaves the developer to get on with it.

web.py-like in PHP, more verbose though.

Note to self... when debugging dojo in firefox... always check the script option: "Show eval() sources" in firebug.

eval is evil, but still.

The following example illustrates how to add a new panel called "Test Panel" to Firebug.

How to extend Firebug for your needs.

If we had to bet our lives on the continued success and adaptability of any single company (...), we would place that bet on 3M. Using 3M as a blueprint for evolutionary progress at its best, here are five basic lessons (...).

1. Give it a try - and quick!
2. Accept that mistakes will be made.
3. Take small steps.
4. Give people the room they need.
5. Mechanisms--build that ticking clock

Fabric looks, on the surface at least (or for those who've only spent a short while with either), a lot like Capistrano. You have a fabfile (as oppose to a capfile) in you project directory, and that file describes all of your deployment tasks (or commands, in Fabric speak).

A pythonic capistrano. (via david`bgk)

CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site. Images are combined into one larger image at defined X and Y coorindates. Having assigned this generated image to relevant page elements the background-position CSS property can then used to shift the visible area to the required component image.

another way to save precious HTTP hits from your page

CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way. In many ways it's cleaner and more powerful than CSS2 is.

Maybe nice with a dev website, then a minimization before pushing on prod.

“[…] if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all your urls over to dashes. If you’re starting fresh, I’d still pick dashes.”

I loved the - vs _ war.