A nice tool:

Tiled backgrounds designer

One more cheat sheet from ILoveJackDaniels:

HTML cheat sheet

Simon Willison has found out that a Firefox extension has the capability to create a graph that shows “every component of the page - JavaScript, CSS, images - and when each component started and finished loading”:

graphing requests with Tamper Data

Regular expressions:

• Regulazy
  a visual Regex creation tool for beginners
• Regulator
  an advanced, free regular expressions testing and learning tool

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It can be used with zero software installation, server-side or client-side and you can populate it with data by pointing it to an XML file.

Today is Nikola Tesla's 150th birthday.

A tool that allows to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast:

colour contrast check

ColorsOnTheWeb is a site dedicated to the use of colors on the web. It has a couple of useful tools to generate matching colors to any one color submitted and random color combinations.

Colors:

• Color Scheme Generator on wellstyled.com
• Colour Schemes on mezzoblue.com

On Pete Freitag's web site:

• Cheat Sheet roundup
• CSS Techniques roundup

CSS links:

• Float tutorial
• css-tweak

On Be A Design Group: five steps to font freedom

On FontShop: The Logos of Web 2.0

Picture Cloud free 360 degrees images.

An HTML character entities cheat sheet has been added to the previous ones:

• HTML character entities cheat sheet
• Cheat sheets HTML characters, JavaScript, MySQL, mod_rewrite, CSS, PHP, RGB Hex

This is hilarious and almost incredible:

Antarctic family values read the article and draw your own conclusions...

A few links to interesting posts:

• CSS server-side constants
• CSS optimizer via this mezzoblue's post

Codefetch :

“ Codefetch's code excerpts connect users of open source software with great books about those software products”

Basically it lets you search for a piece of code and brings it back with an excerpt of the book is in, a shot of the book itself and where to buy it. An interesting idea. It could be used to look for books starting from a phrase in a online Library, for example.

I found cheat sheets for Javascript, CSS, MySQL, mod_rewrite,PHP and an RGB Hex colour chart:

• cheat sheets

They all come in PNG or PDF format "designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a developers desk".

Thanks.

I have published the PHP code of my menu. The idea behind it was to have a menu that can be updated from a single file otherwise every change would mean re-pulish the whole site. The file can be used only on PHP pages, I still have some static XHTML ones and those I have to manually update and re-publish but it's a small percentage. The code could be streamlined since I repeat the same process four times but that's due to the fact that I want the menu to look the way it does and I don't know another way to float the links like that except coding each category in its own unordered list.

I also published a page that enables a user to paste a piece of code and get all the “<” and “>” symbols replaced by entities (&lt; and &gt;) so that it then becomes readable and can be published since the browser does not try to interpret it as active code. I find it useful and it definitely saves a lot of time.

On Cameron Moll's web site there is an interesting article on the use of “Unsharpen Mask” in Photoshop.

It does make a practical difference and the comments also offer different techniques to achieve the same result.