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More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design. It includes several options in each of the very long list of categories that follows:

Graphics & Image generators
Color generators
CSS generators
Domain Name generators
Email generators
Favicons generators
Flash generators
Form generators
METATAG generators
Password generators
PopUp generators
robots.txt generators
RSS generators
SiteMap generators
Text generators
ASCII generators
PDF generators
Tooltip generators
XML Forms generators
HTACCESS generators
Fun & Humor

October 8th, 2007 9:09 PM John Pozadzides CSS
AJAX
Plugins & Widgets
Programming & Scripting
HTML
JavaScript
Design
Search Engine Optimization Comments (2)

How WordPress Uses 300 Servers to Serve Millions of Blogs

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million? Well, you start out by watching this video of a lecture on HyperDB and High Performance WordPress given by Barry Abrahamson and Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2007, in which they explain how they scale WordPress.com across hundreds […]

August 25th, 2007 8:08 AM John Pozadzides Video
Monitoring & Testing
Web Hosting Comments (11)

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

This video features Google engineer Cuong Do, an engineering manager that helped scale the YouTube software and hardware infrastructure from its infancy to its current scale.
He discusses challenges of dealing with the growth including hardware, software and databases.

August 21st, 2007 2:02 AM John Pozadzides Video
Linux & Unix
Monitoring & Testing
Web Hosting Comments (2)

WordCamp 2007: Matt Mullenweg - State of the Word

This one hour session, entitled State of the Word, from the WordCamp 2007 conference features Matt Mullenweg giving an update on the current state and future plans for WordPress.
This lecture occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 3:30-4:30pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall. Matt gave the updates and then allowed […]

August 13th, 2007 11:11 PM John Pozadzides Video
Meetings & Events Comments (0)

Bust a Name - The easy way to find domain names

This has to be one of the best tools I have seen for a while.
I’m sure we all know how hard it can be to find the right domain. You know the drill. Come up with two or three keywords relating to your new Web site, then do a WHOIS on every combination you can […]

July 10th, 2007 3:03 PM Jamie Harrop Comments (22)

Using Macros for Coding

Since I started developing Web sites six years ago, I have frequented many online forums. I started right here at the HTMLHelp Forums, and I eventually founded the International Web Developers Network with my two business partners.
During those six years, my Web development skills have progressed, and with that progression I have moved from asking […]

June 24th, 2007 5:05 AM Jamie Harrop Comments (0)

WordPress - Required Update

For those of you who use the popular blogging software, WordPress, you will need to upgrade your installation to the latest release (2.2.1).
The latest release is primarily made up of bug fixes for 2.2, but it also includes a fix for several security vulnerabilities, which make it a

June 22nd, 2007 7:07 AM Jamie Harrop Blogging
News Comments (2)

Safari 3 Beta for Windows

Yes, Safari 3 Beta has been made avaliable for download, and we (the poor Windows users) now get to play with it, because Apple launched a Mac and a Windows version.
It appears to be using the same rendering engine as the Mac version, so in theory we shouldn’t have to talk about how things look […]

June 15th, 2007 3:03 AM Jamie Harrop News Comments (3)

Review: BlogBackupOnline

BlogBackupOnline is a new online service provider that intends to give the 70 million or so blog owners out there a little peace of mind by backing up all their content. I heard about it weeks ago, but just got around to trying it this evening because I had assumed it was going to take […]

June 12th, 2007 11:11 PM John Pozadzides Blogging Comments (3)

Firebug Web Authoring Tool Video Overview

Joe Hewitt is a Mozilla developer who has written software dear to the heart of all web developers, including the original Mozilla DOM Inspector.
Joe’s newest Mozilla tool is Firebug, an integral logging and debugging extension for Firefox that sets a new standard for its category. Joe provided a power-user tour while announcing Firebug 1.0’s […]

June 8th, 2007 12:12 AM John Pozadzides Video
Tutorials Comments (3)