Useful Links

This is a collection of random links (mainly for my reference), but most are just cool in some way or another. This is a page for great things in MY opinion, spammy emails sent to me asking for a link here will be deleted and ignored!

CSS

Nice Styled Tables – http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/blog/comments/a_css_styled_table/

Even Nicer Tables – http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/13/top-10-css-table-designs/

Beautiful CSS Buttons – http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/06/beautiful-css-buttons-with-icon-set.html

Nice CSS Buttons – http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/

More Nice Buttons – http://www.monc.se/kitchen/59/scalable-css-buttons-using-png-and-background-colors

CSS3 Rounded Corners (CSS3,Moz&Webkit) – http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/border-radius/

Nice Style Sheet – http://medialoot.com/preview/css-ui-kit/demo.html

Text Blocks Over Image – http://css-tricks.com/text-blocks-over-image/

Box Shadow – http://www.css3.info/preview/box-shadow/

CSS3 Inset Text – http://stylizedweb.com/2009/10/22/how-to-create-inset-text-with-css3/

Perfect 3 Column Layout – http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm

Better Image Replacement – http://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-new-image-replacement/

iPad Specific CSS – http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/ipad-specific-css/

Favourite CSS Tables – http://pythoughts.com/table-style-css/

CSS Gradient Generator – http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

CSS Compressor – http://www.minifycss.com/css-compressor/

Cross Browser Transparency – http://css-tricks.com/css-transparency-settings-for-all-broswers/

CSS Inputs – http://css-tricks.com/styling-texty-inputs-only/

Images

Some nice free icons – http://sublink.ca/icons/

Cloud Vectors – http://medialoot.com/item/vector-clouds-icons-1/

Call to action buttons – http://designmodo.com/call-to-action-buttons-psd/

Payment Icons – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/21/free-png-credit-card-debit-card-and-payment-icons-set-18-icons/

Film Artwork for iTunes – http://getvideoartwork.com/

Small Icons – http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/icons/search/fugue/

Nice Mac Vector – http://reitermarkus.deviantart.com/art/MacBook-Pro-Illustrator-Vector-133494256

Jigsaw Icons – http://www.jigsoaricons.com/

UI Pack – http://designmodo.com/impressionist-free/

API’s

Yahoo! Developer network – http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html

PHP

Some insight into secure php forms – http://corpocrat.com/2007/11/28/implementing-secure-file-upload-in-php/

Twitter OAuth stuff – http://www.jaisenmathai.com/blog/2009/04/30/letting-your-users-sign-in-with-twitter-with-oauth/

URL Shortener – http://yourls.org/

QRCode Zend Framework Module – http://code.google.com/p/zend-framework-matrixcode-module/ (hosted version here http://qr.inthepocket.mobi/)

Google Checkout PHP Class – http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/29458.html

PHP Limit 1000 fields per post – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8710185/new-limit-within-php-1000-fields-per-post-does-someone-know-if-the-number-can

OB Capture output – http://www.tequilafish.com/2009/02/10/php-how-to-capture-output-of-echo-into-a-local-variable/

Simple PHP Caching – http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/php-caching.php

Shorthand PHP Ref – http://davidwalsh.name/php-ternary-examples

PDO Wrapper Class – http://www.aplweb.co.uk/blog/php/pdo-mysql-wrapper-class/ – Used to like it, but not a fan anymore

Misc Code

Json Viewer – http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/

Json Formatter – http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

AWS

eb usage – http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/06/aws-elastic-beanstalk-simplfied-command-line-eb.html

Elastix

Simple Hot-desking – http://etel.wiki.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Simple_Hot-desking

iPhone Dev

Information and loading display stuff – https://github.com/jdg/MBProgressHUD

A good summary on iPhone Actions and Alerts – http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1400864&seqNum=6

XML Parsing with GDataXML – http://www.raywenderlich.com/725/how-to-read-and-write-xml-documents-with-gdataxml

Singleton Class – http://iphone.galloway.me.uk/iphone-sdktutorials/singleton-classes/

iPhone Connectivity Framework – http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/

iPhone App Analytics – http://www.flurry.com/about-us/merger/welcome.html

NSError Stuff – http://www.cimgf.com/2008/04/04/cocoa-tutorial-using-nserror-to-great-effect/

Image Sizes & naming conventions – http://aralbalkan.com/3314

Build a simple RSS reader – http://gigaom.com/apple/tutorial-build-a-simple-rss-reader-for-iphone/

Map Stuff (not really iPhone, but I will be using the techniques in an iPhone project :-)) – http://gebweb.net/optimap/

WordPress

How to Create A Custom WordPress Meta Box Instead of Using WordPress Custom Fields – http://www.farinspace.com/how-to-create-custom-wordpress-meta-box/

13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier – http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/01/30/13-useful-wordpress-sql-queries-you-wish-you-knew-earlier/

Linux Stuff

Securing /tmp – http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/57

Maintenance page with .htaccess – http://www.webreference.com/programming/Apache-Site-Down-Notice/

Setup NIC in CentOS – http://www.iprobot.net/linux-tutorial/how-to-setup-network-interface-card-in-centos/

CentOS Network Conf – http://www.how2centos.com/centos-configure-network/

CentOS set date/time – http://fir3net.com/Redhat-/-Fedora/how-to-set-the-time-date-and-timezone-in-centos.html

AdWords

DKI Stuff – http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=3b84e690fff97f55&hl=en

DKI Stuff – http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/dynamic-keyword-insertion-the-ultimate-guide/

AdWords Tips – http://www.googlelady.com/416/10-killer-headline-adwords-tips/

Long Tail Keyword Tool – http://wordsfinder.com/tools_long_tail_generator.php

Long Tail Keyword Tool – http://www.wordstream.com/keywords

Outsmarting your competition (PPC) – http://www.seomoz.org/blog/outsmarting-your-competition-in-highstakes-ppc-markets

Misc

RegEx Tester – http://www.regextester.com/ (This deserves a bookmark, I used it when developing a large number of complicated custom RegExes!!!)

Some electronic logic stuff – http://www.vias.org/feee/karnaugh_09.html

PDF to Word Converter – http://www.zamzar.com/

Test data generator – http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

Random Template Site – themeforest.net / www.freecsstemplates.org

Random SEO Stuff – http://www.semrush.com/

Chromium OS Install – http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84134-how-to-make-your-own-chrome-os-chromebook/1

PHP CLI Colour – http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/php-class-for-coloring-php-command-line-cli-scripts-output-php-output-colorizing-using-bash-shell-colors/#comment-18169

Term Colours – http://linuxtoolkit.blogspot.com/2009/06/painting-ls-on-bash.html – dircolors -p > ~/.dircolors

Wine Portfolio – http://www.frw.co.uk/portfolio-add.aspx?show=1

Random Funny – http://likeaphobia.us/picture/3236/oh,-i-see

Generate Docx with PHP – https://github.com/djpate/phpdocx

Open Source Invoicing System – http://www.simpleinvoices.org/go

Linux Clear Swap – http://www.linuxnetadmin.com/2008/11/clear-swap-space-in-linux.html

BCS Application – http://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/26399

Simple Email Encryption – http://www.knechtology.com/stop-spam/email_encoder.html

Uniball Pens :p – http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off&nord=1&q=uniball+signo+gel+grip&gs_upl=4946l7831l0l8339l9l9l0l0l0l0l293l1303l2.5.2l9l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=925&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=7066585734655693307&sa=X&ei=lOmMTr_CHYW70QWp0bDiBQ&ved=0CGsQ8wIwAg#scoring=tps

Slicehost article repo – http://articles.slicehost.com/

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