Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Modernizr – JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the browser

Modernizr – JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the browser.

Phake – PHP task management software

Phake – PHP task management software.  This Phake is a clone of Ruby’s rake, not to be confused with Phake – PHP Mocking Framework.  Think Phing, not PHPUnit.  Use Phake for process automation such as, for example, project deployment.

ftfy – fixes text for you

ftfy – fixes text for you

ftfy makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent. It works in Python 2.7, Python 3.2, or later.

The most interesting kind of brokenness that this resolves is when someone has encoded Unicode with one standard and decoded it with a different one. This often shows up as characters that turn into nonsense sequences