Archive for March, 2009

CSS Grid Frameworks

Mar 24th

Posted by redline in Design

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Frameworks

  • 960 Grid System
    The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
  • Fluid 960 Grid System
    The Fluid 960 Grid System templates have been built upon the work of Nathan Smith and his 960 Grid System using effects from the Mootools JavaScript library. The idea for building these templates was inspired by Andy Clarke, author of Transcending CSS, who advocates a content-out approach to rapid interactive prototyping, crediting Jason Santa Maria with the grey box method.
  • Blueprint CSS
    Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
  • YUI Grids CSS
    The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations.
  • Typogridphy
    Typogridphy is a CSS framework constructed to allow web designers and front-end developers to quickly code typograhically pleasing grid layouts. Based on the popular 960 Grid System, Typogridphy allows you to create grid layouts which are versatile and great looking. Typogridphy is made of fully validate, semantic and strict xHTML, and validate CSS.

Tools

  • GridFox
    GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. If you can open it in Firefox, you can put a grid on top of it. It’s easy to customize, allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around.
  • YUI: CSS Grid Builder
    CSS Grid Builder is a simple interface for Grids customization with use of YUI Grids CSS framework.
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WoDaC gnome theme on Ubuntu

Mar 22nd

Posted by redline in Debian

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WoDaC 0.2 is pretty and nice idea for a dark theme. The original color scheme is based on pink color, but you will not have big problems if you choose another color scheme.

The size of toolbar incons are small (16×16), because i have created this theme for laptop with 1280×800 resolution.

The only requirement is Aurora GTK Engine 1.4

Aurora is an excellent Gtk 2 theme engine. It looks very great. The latest version of Aurora Gtk Engine is 1.4. Here I’ll show you how you can install it on Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”.

Installing Aurora Gtk Engine

  1. Install build tools and all of the dependencies: 
    sudo aptitude install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
  2. Download Aurora Gtk Engine 1.3 from here and save it to ~/Desktop folder.
  3. Extract the tarball files: 
    cd ~/Desktop
tar jxvf Aurora-1.3.tar.bz2
tar zxvf aurora-1.3.tar.gz
  4. Configure, make and install: 
    cd aurora-1.3/
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation
make
sudo make install

Installing Aurora themes

You can run the following commands:

cd ../
tar jxvf gtkrc_themes.tar.bz2
sudo cp -r Aurora/ Aurora-looks/ Aurora-Midnight/ /usr/share/themes/

Using Aurora themes

  1. Click System → Appearance menu command.
  2. In Theme tab, click Customize button.
  3. Select Aurora Controls from Customize Theme window.

Installing WoDaC o.2

  1. Download theme from here
  2. Extrac the tarball files:
  3. Copy theme files to /usr/share/themes/
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MySQL Workbench

Mar 21st

Posted by redline in MySQL

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MySQL Workbench was recently rewritten from scratch and is now available in both free and commercial versions. The free version is not feature-crippled, but the commercial version includes some plug-ins that help automate tasks so that they require less manual work. At the time of this writing, the new version of the MySQL Workbench tool is still in beta.

It’s super-easy to use and I’ll just copy its feature list:

  • Cairo based diagramming canvas which allows output to different targets such as OpenGL, Win32, X11, Quartz, PostScript, PDF etc
  • visual representation of tables, views, stored procedure/functions and foreign keys
  • live database and SQL script file reverse-engineering
  • database/model synchronization
  • SQL script generation
  • extensible architecture
  • export as SQL CREATE script
  • import DBDesigner4 models
  • support for MySQL 5 features
  • selectable notations for diagram

For me, it’s a very useful tool for importing an SQL script, visually modifying it, and exporting a working SQL script. It’s also a cinch to just create ER diagrams in 5 damn minutes that look decent and map out foreign key relationships.

I’ve used DBD4 in the past as well as Aqua Data Studio and this tool gets me more excited. If you design or work with MySQL databases, you should check it out (see screenshots). Right now it’s Windows-only but they plan on releasing Linux and OSX in June, 2008.

Overall, very nice work MySQL — this tool is light years ahead of its predecessors.

MySQL developer tools

Mar 19th

Posted by redline in Tools

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MySQL Query Browser

MySQL Query Browser is a database querying tool that combines the simplicity of a Web-browser-like interface with powerful features like multiple result sets on tab sheets, query history, storing query “bookmarks”, editing and comparing resultsets, SQL script debugging, and more.

MySQL Query Browser can be used for tasks such as running queries, creating tables and stored procedures, exporting data, and browsing database structures. It has integrated documentation on MySQL’s SQL commands and functions. It is most useful for those who develop and query MySQL databases.

[http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/]

MySQL Administrator

MySQL Administrator is a powerful visual administration console for MySQL, which allows the user to easily administer their MySQL environment, and gain better visibility of how their databases are operating. It is available with native GUI interfaces for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

MySQL Administrator is focused on server administration and is therefore most useful for DBAs, not developers or analysts. It helps automate tasks such as creating backups, creating users and assigning privileges, and viewing server logs and status information. It includes some basic monitoring functionality, such as graphing status variables, but is not as flexible as the interactive monitoring tools presented later in this post. It also doesn’t record the statistics for later analysis, which many other monitoring tools are designed to do.

[http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/]

MySQL Migration Toolkin

MySQL Migration Toolkit is a software pack to convert any data source to MySQL and vice versa. It includes the following utilities:

  • Access-to-MySQL – migrates MS Access database to MySQL server;
  • DBF-to-MySQL – moves DBase (dbf) databases to MySQL server;
  • Excel-to-MySQL – converts MS Excel spreadsheet into MySQL database;
  • MSSQL-to-MySQL – migrates MS SQL database to MySQL server;
  • MySQL-to-Access – converts MySQL database into MS Access format;
  • MySQL-to-DBF – converts MySQL databases into DBase (dbf) format;
  • MySQL-to-Excel – converts MySQL database into MS Excel spreadsheet;
  • MySQL-to-MSSQL – migrates MySQL database to MS SQL server;
  • MySQL-to-Oracle – migrates MySQL database to Oracle server;
  • Oracle-to-MySQL – migrates Oracle database to MySQL server.

[http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/]