I noticed this morning that not only was there nothing in the news I felt like ranting about, but also that I’ve built up a fairly large collection of links for various web tools and such that I haven’t talked about yet. So today you get a dump of all the webby things I’ve been meaning to look at for a while, but haven’t gotten around to linking to until now.
Note that I don’t sound especially excited about any of these tools. That’s not necessarily because they’re not good, but more because I haven’t had a need to use any of them just yet. When I do, I’m hoping that this collection of links will help me find what I’m looking for.
- One of these days, I should probably hook up A Better Image Rotator somewhere to get used to it. It lets you have a random image from a set of images display on a web-page.
- I don’t think I need to worry about writing High Performance MySQL just yet, but one of these days, my server-load might get above a percent or so, and I’ll need to start thinking about performance issues.
- I don’t really have too much trouble keeping my bookmarks in sync when I’m around home, but on the road, or when I get a new computer, it’s always an issue. Is that enough reason to use URL Manager Pro to keep my bookmarks in sync? I don’t think so, but I might change my mind.
- Is there any point to Geotagging Web Pages and RSS Feeds? I already use the ICBM meta-tag, but there are other standards I should probably support.
The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from!
- One of these days I’m going to finish the category system I’ve started here on Dave’s Picks, and when I do, I’ll use Technorati Tags so I can be one of the cool kids on the block. [doc]
- They look useful for validating forms, but I’m not sure of any other uses for JavaScript Triggers. I prefer to do form validation on the server. Yes, it takes longer, but until I read this article, it was the only way I knew.
- Here’s another one of those “cool tools” I feel like I should know, but don’t: Ruby on Rails for web-development. The only snag is that I would need to learn yet another programming language.
- Want to get some auto-generated images that include a bit of typeography? typoGenerator might be just the thing for you. I wasn’t overwhelmed by the output, but I also am probably not the best person to just graphic design thingies.
- If you’re looking for some cute CSS and design ideas, Mandarin Design. Web and Blog Design and Development has some tips. The only problem is that Michelle does things on Windows, so there are tricks like the CSS Opacity Hover that don’t always work right in Safari (especially if you’re using the version which shall not be named).