Links for 28 February 2010

Web/HTML/JavaScript
- 10 Hand-Picked Tutorials for Beginning Web Designers
- How to create a WordPress options panel
- CSS3 transations
- Private variables in JavaScript
- Coding your first jQuery UI plugin
- Use CSS3 to design a prettier web form
- Using PHP to highlight code
- A "take 2" on a PHP chat system
- Multiple Class / ID and Class Selectors
- How to highlight entire form areas
- An interesting article explaining how to add snippet buttons to your web page. Working in conjunction with the Mac OS X Snippets application.
- Accent Folding for Auto-Complete
- The 1kb CSS grid is a simple CSS layout
- jsonlint is a lovely way to clean up and validate your JSON data
- layouts.ironmyers.com offers lovely Grade-A CSS layouts
PHP
- Creating RESTful applications in the Zend Framework
- Teaching Zend_Rest_Server to speak JSON.
- oauth-php is both a OAuth Consumer and Server library for PHP
- Once you've got your Zend Framework apps up you'll probably be using them from within the command line. David Caunt has a few tips in his post on easy command line scripts with Zend_Application.
- Testing Zend_Mail shows you how to put in a new, default, transport that sends off your emails to a database
- Create a Unit Conversion Application with the Zend_Measure Component
- Source code for ncane.com URL shortener
- XHP is a PHP extension which augments the syntax of the language such that XML document fragments become valid PHP expressions. This allows you to use PHP as a stricter templating engine and offers much more straightforward implementation of reusable components
- storytlr is a lifestreaming platform and a great example of how to integrate various resources
Android
- Stackoverflow post listing the REST clients for Java
- Creating categories in a ListView - otherwise known as Sections in a UITableView for iPhone developers ;-)
- zipwire-rest is a lightweight, very easy to use REST client API for Java.
- If you're looking to integrate SOAP services in Android then look into KSOAP2. Follow that up with a nice tutorial too
- Creating an Android home screen widget
Mac OS X
- Squeeze is an interesting compression system for Mac OS X 10.6
- Hold down Shift along with the volumne up/down keys to prevent the Mac OS X beeping
- How to customise your root prompt
- Use Safari's Activity window to download multiple file
iPhone
- How to set a more secure alpha-numeric iPhone passcode
- How to retrieve/save iPhone camera images
- Retrieve the iPhone app icon name
- Persisting NSArray/NSDictionary to files
- Cocos2D game tutorial on how to create a simple game
- How to use vibration and accelerometer features in your iPhone app
- Salesgraph is a free solution to viewing your AppStore sales figures
- How to create nice shiny iPhone buttons
- How to display indexed data in a UITableView
- Change the carrier name in the iPhone Simulator
- jQTouch textmate bundle makes working with jQTouch that much easier
- Res i Skane is a great example of an open-source iPhone app that allows you to search for buss, train and boat trips in the south of Sweden. Even more interesting is the changelog and seeing how the author has had to adapt the code to err "changing conditions".
- How to access iTunes AppStore comments
- description - the print_r equivalent in Objective-C
tfl is a Ruby API to TfL's services
entp design some awesome web-based applications which can make the life of any developer that much simpler. One such offering is Tender Support providing a great helpdesk tool.
Listing of London bus routes
Interestingly enough there is a HotUKDeals REST API