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Monday, 30th July 2007

YUI-based Image Cropper Widget. Nice implementation of a useful widget.

# 12:56 pm / javascript, widget, yui

Scale rails from one box to three, four and five. Excellent, concise run-down of what it takes to scale a web application. Most of the advice is easily portable to other frameworks.

# 1:40 pm / courtenay, rails, scaling

Top 10 dotcoms to watch. From the Guardian—Dopplr and Moo both get a mention.

# 2:19 pm / dopplr, guardian, moo, startups

Django weekly roundup: July 30. Every active open source project needs something like this.

# 5:03 pm / clint-ecker, django, open-source

XRAY web developer’s suite (via) Smart new bookmarklet from westciv—kind of like Steve Chipman’s MODI but with the addition of the canvas element for box model visualisation.

# 5:11 pm / bookmarklet, canvas, javascript, jeffrey-zeldman, steve-chipman, westciv, xray

Mouseover DOM Inspector v2.0. Steve Chipman’s excellent debugging bookmarklet created back in 2005—includes useful keyboard shortcuts for quickly manipulating the DOM of the current page.

# 5:13 pm / bookmarklet, dom, javascript, modi, steve-chipman

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