Because Versions officially released it’s Beta today, I dug out this draft that had been unpublished for a long time (It was intended to be published in addition to the Versions Beta announcement one year ago):

This list represents three very popular graphical user interfaces for the Subversion client svn. The applications help developers to manage their repositories without being a bash or shell champion. Feel free to leave a comment in case I forgot an essential tool.

Read the full entry "Subversion Interfaces on Mac OS X"

Similar to the LargeType enhancement for OS X, this JavaScript tool enables a large type display of content-elements on your website. Simply add class="LargeType"> to a <span> or <p>.

Read the full entry "LargeType JS"

Happy New Year to all of you!

As a cake baker, I’ve always been curious about new CakePHP releases. Especially new versions in the 1.2 branch because I’m working on 4-5 projects that are built with 1.2 – tapping the full potential of bulit-in features such as I18n, pagination and advanced HABTM associations.

Since the 1st of January the dev-team of CakePHP published new releases.
Stable 1.1.19.6305 (Changelog) and Beta 1.2.0.631 (Changelog)

Also the homepage of CakePHP got a new rockin’ 2008 design with a sliding content-box.
The new top-level menu button Planet now also features the most important resources for development with this great framework.

Happy baking and a prosperous 2008!

Developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the apps built into iPhone. If you plan to build an app for iPhone, these resources are probably everything you need to ensure that your site looks great and works fine on iPhone.

Read the full entry "Developing for iPhone"

If you’re developing web-applications on OS X and use MAMP as Apache and SQL Server you may have encountered the fact that a configuration that defines localhost as SQL-host often uses the native SQL socket of Mac OS X.

Read the full entry "CakePHP, MAMP and the SQL socket"

In Development Diary: Taming the Fisheye, developer Alexei presents the development process of one of their user interface components — something that looks and works like the Mac OS X Dock (A clicked icon even jumps up and down).

In relation to the bunch of JavaScript dock menus that are found over the web, the one from Nitobi really seems to be the best working one if you look at the outcome. Unfortunately it’s pure JavaScript. No degrading. No replacement. But as the component is not finished yet, maybe they’ll improve accessibility until the promised release in early spring.

This reminds me to revisit a proof-of-concept script I started a few months back. I experimented to build an OS X dock-flavoured Web menu, based on a pure unordered list and the Script.aculo.us effect library. Maybe I will digg into that after Christmas again and then present some results, too.