mislav

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

justincormack

# example location parts of nginx.conf
# add your own AWS keys, server lines etc, and set your aws domains, paths

http {
# you will need the luacrypto in the cpath, download from http://luacrypto.luaforge.net/
lua_package_cpath "/home/justin/lua/luacrypto-0.2.0/src/l?.so.0.2.0;;";

server {
  listen       80;

pjkix

#!/bin/bash

## v1.0.6
## this script will gernerate css stats

### example output

# CSS STATS
# ----------
# Floats:  132

mhawksey

function getJSON(aUrl,sheetname) {
  //var sheetname = "test";
  //var aUrl = "http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=286bbb1d8d30f65b54173b3b752fa4d9&_render=json";
  var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(aUrl); // get feed
  var dataAll = JSON.parse(response.getContentText()); //
  var data = dataAll.value.items;
  for (i in data){
    data[i].pubDate = new Date(data[i].pubDate);
    data[i].start = data[i].pubDate;
  }

caseyohara

# A list of possible usernames to reserve to avoid
# vanity URL collision with resource paths

# It is a merged list of the recommendations from this Quora discussion:
# http://www.quora.com/How-do-sites-prevent-vanity-URLs-from-colliding-with-future-features

# Country TLDs found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains

# Languages found here:

dejayc

#!/bin/bash
LAN_INTERFACE=''
BRIDGE_INTERFACE=''

SCRIPT_NAME=$( basename "${0}" )
POLL_SLEEP_SECONDS=5

getProcessInfo() {
    local PROCESS="${1}"
    ps -ef | grep "${PROCESS}" | grep -v "grep ${PROCESS}"

twosixcode

// swap the keybindings for paste and paste_and_indent
{ "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" },
{ "keys": ["super+shift+v"], "command": "paste" }

anthonyshort

// Media Queries in Sass 3.2
//
// These mixins make media queries a breeze with Sass.
// The media queries from mobile up until desktop all 
// trigger at different points along the way
//
// And important point to remember is that and width
// over the portrait width is considered to be part of the
// landscape width. This allows us to capture widths of devices
// that might not fit the dimensions exactly. This means the break

SamSaffron

#!/bin/sh
ipfw -q -f flush

ipfw add pipe 1 in
ipfw add pipe 2 out
ipfw pipe 1 config bw 512Kbit/s queue 30 delay 150ms
ipfw pipe 2 config bw 2Mbit/s queue 10 delay 150ms
ipfw -q add allow all from any to any

buritica

#!/bin/bash

# Open iPhone Simulator on default location for XCode 4.3 if found

[[ -d /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app/ ]] &&
	open /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app

# Open iPhone Simulator on default location for XCode 4.2 if found
[[ -d /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app/ ]] &&
	open /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app