Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Information Architecture/UxD blog/news site.

The Ideal Website 1.1 (WordPress Theme)

This WordPress theme is based on Fibonacci’s Golden Cut and claims to be “ideal”.

factoryjoe’s photosets on Flickr

Chris Messina has an awesome collection of screenshots of design patterns and whatnot.

Mike Davidson: How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE

A better method for embedding widgets (JS) in pages that won’t slow down the “host” site.

How’d I Get Here (Firefox extension)

Track down how you came across a page in your History by back-tracking links leading up to it with this plugin.

Using Custom Fields Part Two – Styling Per Post » WPDesigner

Decent intro article on how to use and then access meta-data/custom fields in WordPress. The possibilities with this are really quite impressive.

YouTube – Martial Arts by Chloe Bruce in Cylob Rewind

Impressive music video with Chloe Bruce, freestyle martial artist. Cylob – Rewind is the audio track.

Graffle-2-SQL: Convert OmniGraffle database charts to SQL

Pretty slick (sounding) tool for using OmniGraffle as a database design tool. Targeted to MySQL which is nice.

Rapid Application Development: An Entity Relationship Diagram Example

Good details on all of the elements available in ER Diagrams

mnot

Mark Nottingham’s site. Smart guy into HTTP/Web Services/REST/Caching/feeds/etc.

cgi_buffer

cgi_buffer is a group of libraries (for Perl, Python and PHP) that automatically handle performance-improving HTTP features that most Web servers don’t implement (at least for scripts).

Squid 3.0 Configuration Manual – Contents

Detailed reference manual on all the Squid configuration directives.

Squid 2.5 Quick Start Guide

Brief intro to get started with Squid using some really basic settings.

Apache module mod_proxy

Details on the Apache module for running as a proxy/cache.

Cache Tester

A page that allows you to generate pages with defined expiry/last modified headers to test a caching configuration.

Squid User’s Guide

Wiki-based guide to using and managing Squid (the proxy/caching system).

Ajax Rain

Constantly updated list of AJAX examples and implementations.

Ricardo Galli, de software libre » WP-Cache 2.0

The definitive caching plugin for WordPress. Stores static versions of pages to speed up response times.

80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding | Smashing Magazine

Awesome collection of all sorts of pre-built solutions using AJAX for common web development problems.

Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface

Some very cool information on how to squeeze more information out of GA and use it as a more generalized web stats framework.

Handy one-liners for SED

Awesome list of ways to use SED to do cool stuff.

DNS Oversimplified: How to check your DNS

Nice simple explanations of DNS.

php-growl – Google Code

PHP class to handle sending network Growl notifications using PHP

The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources

Mashable compilation of all sorts of cool tools related to RSS/feeds.

Desktop Tower Defense

Incredibly addictive online game. You place towers on your desk, and then lines of “creeps” try to run past them. If your towers are well-placed, they’ll shoot the creeps down. If not, they get across and you lose.

developerWorks : Web development : Technical library view

Awesome collection of developer-oriented articles from IBM developerWorks specifically about web development. All sorts of good AJAX, PHP, MySQL etc etc articles.

Practical PHP Programming Wiki

Interesting wiki with all sorts of guides and tips on PHP programming from really basic to quite advanced.

Multi-threading strategies in PHP » Implicit Evaluation with PHP

Another approach to multi-threading in PHP. This includes a class (PHP4-style) to abstract most of the operations out.

How To Set Up Database Replication In MySQL | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Good copy-paste style howto on setting up replication for MySQL.

Cocoatron :: Automator Actions for XML Processing Pipelines

Awesome set of actions for Automator on a Mac to handle batch processing of XML files including application of XSL transformations, validation etc etc.

Thorough look at PHP’s pcntl_fork() | van-steenbeek.net

Multi-threading (forking) in PHP and how to make it happen. Complicated, but could work for FeedBlendr.

hKit microformats parser for PHP5

Cool library for parsing and extracting microformats from pages using PHP5.

Tiny Tiny RSS

Pretty slick web-based feed reader that uses AJAX etc to speed things up. Lightweight interface, categories, tags, etc etc. Very nice.

Open Web Analytics

Project to provide an open framework for collecting/reporting on web analytics/data.

/hyperdb/trunk

The Subversion trunk to an interesting project named “HyperDB” which adds a DB layer giving more flexibility for query balancing and all sorts of nifty DB-stuff for WordPress (mu)