James Carlos

From the page: "CASA Lib is a flexible ActionScript library designed to streamline common chores and act as a solid, reliable foundation for your projects. It provides a core set of classes, interfaces, and utilities to get you coding faster and more reliably without getting in the way." - James Carlos

From the page: "Putting up a maintenance page while you are doing an update and restarting your application servers is good practice, but it definitely hurts the user experience. This, in turn, translates to less frequent releases and frustration for both the developer and the users (release often, release early!). To address this, the Rails community has come up with a couple of approaches to mitigate the problem: Seesaw, one-at-a-time restarts, and Swiftiply, none of which, unfortunately, caught on with the crowd. Well, it turns out, HAProxy has a beautiful solution for this problem!" - James Carlos

From the page: "If the components in your dive are still functioning, you can recover the data yourself. If there's mechanical damage, send it to the pros. PM's complete guide to getting your files back." - James Carlos

The jQuery sIFR Plugin is an addon for jQuery that makes it easy to replace text in a web page with flash text (sIFR). - James Carlos

Reusing code is a great way to save time and money over the course of a website development. One thing that I have been looking to add to my developer toolkit is a CSS file that is flexible, well-organized, lightweight, and easy to learn. The result of my efforts to create such a tool, Momentum CSS Framework, is now ready to be released into the wild under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. - James Carlos

Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it's made for looking at feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and fiddle and personalise to your hearts content! - James Carlos

Usability testing is a good idea for any new web site. Increasing the usability of your web site is a good idea because it will increase visitor satisfaction, which in turn increases sales and user loyalty. On the business savings side, usability testing can also save you money in development, maintenance, and support costs. Unfortunately, traditional usability tests is pricey — it can cost up to tens of thousands of dollars to run a usability test. - James Carlos

Do you use multiple web browsers? Juggling multiple web browsers is not so uncommon to overcome incompatibity and inefficiency of web sites or browsers that are not well optimized to web standards. But it's not that power users who know how to install and use multiple browsers actually love the hassle at the cost of their precious time. - James Carlos

We cannot escape typography; it’s everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only present information but also be read by the users. Designers use type to create breath-taking designs to communicate their ideas through their works. Today we’re going to take a look at 30 brilliant typographic artworks, that shows great talent of such creative designers. - James Carlos

The plugin transforms an unoredered list of images into a box displaying only one preview image at a time. The box has controls to skim through the preview images and to enlarge a given image. The box expands to accomodate the enlarged version, while the controls are hidden in full image size mode. A simple click on the image returns the box to its compact state. - James Carlos

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. - James Carlos

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet. - James Carlos

Here are 10 visual exmples to demonstrate on how to use jQuery to enchance user experience and semantic web design (view original jQuery Tutorials). - James Carlos

ecommr is a website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail. - James Carlos

From the page: "BWToolkit is a BSD licensed plugin for Interface Builder 3 that contains commonly used UI elements and other useful objects. Using these objects is as simple as dragging them from the library to your canvas or document window." - James Carlos

From the page: "AltDrag allows you to drag windows with the mouse when pressing the alt key. You can also press the shift key to make the window stick to other windows. Fullscreen windows, such as games, will not be dragged. " - James Carlos