Links for 06 February 2010

PHP
- Some Zend Framework tips and tricks
- Keeping your HTML valid with Zend Framework, Tidy and Firebug
- Managing CSS and JavaScript files within a Zend Framework App. We've been doing a similar thing at work where all CSS/JS files are separated. Except we only send through controller/action specific JS/CSS when we need to rather than all the time.
- Matthew Weier O'Phinney talks about creating re-usable Zend_Application resource plugins
Mac OS X
- Movist The Real Alternative to VLC for Mac
- Automount Samba (Windows) shares as needed
- Follow both sides of a threaded discussion in Mail
- Search Address Book from Terminal. Some interesting field names in the SQL there...
iPhone
- TUAW talks about browser-based previews and URL tricks. They go over some URL formats you can use to link to the web-view of your AppStore application. Also included is some code to allow people to break out of your application to rate it.
- ManiacDev on howto create great looking UIButtons
- Rotate an Image or Button with Animation
- Finding the cause of performance issues in your programs details memory profiling on the Mac
Bulletproof backups for MySQL
SublimeVideo is an HTML5 Video Player that has no browser plugin or Flash dependencies. Future support for IE will be added by falling back to Flash
8 Chrome Extensions For Web Developers
WordPress for Android is now available and is based on wpToGo where you can find the source. The "new comment notification" that Wordpress for Android offers is quite cool.
James Padolsey has conjured up a useful utility allowing you to easily view the code behind the jQuery library. It's available here but more detail on the associated blog post
cucumber nagios lets you describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format
Wufoo bill themselves as "the easiest way to collect information over the Internet" and this tutorial, The Quickest (and Best) Way to Create Forms: Wufoo should get you started. Could be useful in some projects.
QUnit is developed by the jQuery team and a great way to test your JavaScript. You can get an introduction to it at How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit