QuirksMode

QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

It contains about 120 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and largely free of copyrights.

QuirksMode.org contains free explanation and test pages about JavaScript and CSS. The problem is that there are so many pages. On this page you find a quick overview of all these resources, aimed at helping you find your way in them.

Check this out: http://www.quirksmode.org/

Digg

What is Digg? Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

Technology focused news site where the stories are chosen by community members rather than editors. Check this out by yourself for your reference. http://www.digg.com/

Google AJAX Feed API

Google announces the Google AJAX Feed API in the morning of Monday, April 16, 2007. It is an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies. Check this out http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/ and http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/. For PHP, there is a library called Magpie RSS. For Ruby, there is a built-in standard library and FeedTools.

Google Page Creator

Wow! I just know another product from Google. It called Google Page Creator. It is a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It supports WYSIWYG. You can use up to 100MB of space for your pages and uploaded files. You need to have a Gmail account and be using either Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0, or higher, with JavaScript and cookies enabled. You will get the url like http://[username].googlepages.com/. Have a look at http://pages.google.com/.

ImageMagick

I just found another free software tools that dealing with image called ImageMagick. You can use it to modify or create images automagically and dynamically through a great deal of programming langugages such as: PHP, Ruby, Perl, Phython, and many other things. Check out this link: ImageMagick and Examples of ImageMagick Usage.

Adobe Color Scheme

Another blog's post from Joe Danziger is also very useful for backend developers. Do you want to expand your knowledge from backend developer with a designer's concept? Here, Adobe just launched http://kuler.adobe.com/, a very great color schemes for beginner designers that ever exist on the Internet.

Disabling Text Selection For Drag-Drop

I just found one blog that is quite useful. It is about how to prevent unintentional text selection during drag-and-drop. Take a look of this blog: http://www.ajaxcf.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/17/Disabling-Text-Selection-For-DragandDrop.
Thanks to Joe Danziger that posted this topic.

<script type="text/javascript">
function disableSelection(element) {
  element.onselectstart = function() {
  return false;
};
element.unselectable = "on";
element.style.MozUserSelect = "none";
element.style.cursor = "default";
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  disableSelection(document.getElementById("text"));
</script>