Web Developer’s Field Guide

This site is pretty much a collection of links that I’ve found very useful over the last year, or so. First, and foremost, I must thank Vitaly.Friedman for getting the vast majority of them together all in one place for the first time. I used his version of this page for many months before taking on the not small task of creating my own. Why would I do such a thing?

Web Developer’s Field Guide

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated. However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250 rows of characters.

This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.

Left Logic : HTML Entity Character Lookup

UML TOOLBOX: 20+ UML Tools & Tutorials

UML is a globally accepted standard for software modeling in the technology community. Visualization with UML gives a punch to the whole development process. We’ve gathered over 20 Tools & Tutorials to help you get going with UML.

Mashable.com – UML TOOLBOX: 20+ UML Tools & Tutorials

How To Minimize Your Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads

Over the last 11 years I’ve spent a great deal of time trying to improve client websites with an eye for minimalist interface design and code. While the minimalist design esthetic is not the choice for every client the notion of less code and faster load times always goes over well. Today, many of web applications I design and code for have a plethora of Javascript and CSS files. Fortunately, there are many options to solve this rather simple problem. Compression, obfuscation and bundling are all great options.

Below you’ll find a list of the sites I’ve visited to learn more about Javascript and CSS compression. Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great compression resources, and I’ll be glad to post them. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, Max.

Max Kiesler – How To Minimize Your Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads

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250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web

We’re all living on the web, and we all seem to be starting our own websites, so it’s time we all learned the languages that make it run. We’ve gathered over 250 resources to help you get going. This list is aggregated from previous Mashable posts.

Mashable.com: 250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web

Net Profiles

With Net Profiles, mobile computing becomes a whole lot easier. It eliminates the need to manually reconfigure your network settings when you move your desktop/laptop computer to another location. Once a profile is created, Net Profiles can configure your IP settings, proxy settings, mapped drives, default printer, wallpaper, and screen resolution with a click of a button; as well as run any number of user-defined applications upon activation of a profile.

Net Profiles

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications > Design Vitality

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. I’ve gathered 43 extremely useful (but still easy to implement) AJAX applications for use on any website. Keep your users coming back and increase your website’s functionality.

Design Vitality: 43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft (Updated) – Joseph Guadagno

I wanted save some people some time looking for providers for their non-Microsoft databases to use with .NET. Please keep in mine I have not tried or used all of these providers / tools but have found them from searching and asking around. Based on some of the feed back and comments I added a few others.

Joseph Guadagno: Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft (Updated)