Ecommerce developers with Magento

Ney Ricardo from our Surgeworks design team wrote a blog post few months ago that now became quite popular after it got featured on Smashing Magazine. To make designers and developers life easier, Ney created a Facebook GUI PSD resource that is given to you for free. The purpose of this GUI kit is to speed up Facebook interface design, sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you customize all the texts, buttons and data as you need.

“It’s simple for us and it’s simple for clients” cried Željko Prša, our frontend developer over a year ago in our first Ask a developer episode. Our clients know that we use Basecamp as our collaboration tools because of its simplicity and the fact that clients get familiar with it in a short time. However, we really miss some of the simple features that would improve usability a lot.

Yes I know the title is totally misleading since it’s not about safari, but I got your attention didn’t I

This post is about the Safari 5 and (in my humble opinion) it’s 3 most relevant features worth reading about.

So you would like to make dynamic dropdown list using Ext.js and you want it to be browser compatible, including IE browsers. You could use innerHtml to inject options in your “select” element of a dropdown list. Which looks like:

Firefox 3.5 is about to be released today so it’s nice to know what it will bring to the market as a “Browser for the next Web”. There are some actual screenshots and attempts in humoresque writing in this unbelievably great written article . It’s informative too…

Anyone who’s ever worked on any kind of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) task – and, to be honest, that pretty much describes everyone reading this – knows it can be quite a hassle managing all the contacts, deals, callbacks, quotes and whatnots of client communication.

How many times have you scribbled some important note on the closest post-it you could find only to lose sight of it the very next day (or minute, for that matter)? Please raise your hand if you’ve at least once missed out on that follow-up email to a prospect weeks after sending your quote? It looks like we’re voting on something, right? Well, not any more.

The guys from “Done21” presented an ingenious way of “upgrading” your visitor’s IE 6 to IE 8.

This much needed change for everyone is available at their site as an add-on for the web page using some jQuery magic and obvious good style copying of that infamous IE yellow-bar.

It’s amazing how the web “best practices” become obsolete in a matter of months. The guys at Duris.ru seem to confirm that. What they have at their website for everyone to test and hopefully adopt is a new method of using background images.

What is etherpad? It’s an real-time collaborative text editing online application.

As they state on their site “Etherpad” is a “Really real-time collaboration”. That means no delay between writing or editing your shared document. It has built in versioning, chat and requires no registration for anyone in the free version.

If you are looking for an easy solution for running multiple IEs (IE6 standalone, IE7 standalone and IE8 standalone.) or any other popular browsers versions side by side AND all of that right from your browser, check out the Xenocode’s page or read on before jumping off.