This experimental plugin for the jQuery UI datepicker widget looks promising: You can get it via SVN. Update: The Filament Group has also made a really cool datepicker.

I’m sure I’ll be using this one at some point. Myfonts.com is a great resource for designers allowing you to: • Find fonts for your project • Identify fonts you’ve seen • Try fonts before buying • Organize fonts you like Their font ID service is really cool (there’s also an iPhone app): http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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To get the best locking performance out of InnoDB in 5.1, you’ll want to set the following options (“My Favorite New Feature of MySQL 5.1: Less InnoDB Locking” explains why): [mysqld] innodb_autoinc_lock_mode=2 binlog_format=row tx_isolation=READ-COMMITTED

This is beautiful! Check out this post on Bret Taylor’s blog: We use MySQL for storing all of the data in FriendFeed. Our database has grown a lot as our user base has grown. We now store over 250 million entries and a bunch of other data, from comments and “likes” to friend lists. As our database [...]

Below is an excerpt from Issue 56 of the Sitepoint Design View newsletter that I found very interesting and useful. Perhaps you will too. Alex Walker design@sitepoint.com Editor, SitePoint Design View For the past five years, Codestyle.org have run an ongoing font survey, analyzing the system fonts of visitors to their site. Although the sample group is likely [...]

Here are some observations I’ve gathered from writing a variety of programs in PHP over the last year. Do you have one I should add? Please share it and post it in the comments. 1) Don’t waste time re-inventing the wheel unless you can make a significantly better one. Custom frameworks have their advantages, but are really [...]

When you spend your days staring at PHP code, you really can appreciate a visual refresh now and then. Syntax highlighting, if done well, makes reading code much easier. Excellent color schemes are not only functional, but are visually appealing as well. Personally, I think Eclipse PDT’s PHP syntax highlighting is quite boring. I have tried [...]