Redis is a new key-value/noSql type datastore. There are client libraries in lots of languages, including Java and Python.

The author of this blog used it for loading data in from a CSV in one python console, whilst running queries on the half imported data set from another. Nice.

It's …

Firebug allows you to run live javascript against the page. In my case, the website I was playing with already had jQuery included, so I could make use of the jQuery library.

In Firebug, enable the Console by clicking the down arrow to the right of the Console option.
If …

I asked work to buy me a copy of the jQuery Enlightenment ebook. The book is the reference that the author wanted to have whilst he was working with jQuery, and it's excellent. Highly recommended.

Key Chapters:

• Core JQuery
• Selecting
• Traversing
• Manipulation
• HTML Forms
• Events
• jQuery and the Web …

There's a meta header you can set in your HTML to indicate whether a web site should run in full screen mode when running on an iphone.

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

The documentation says:

If content is set to yes, the web application runs in full-screen mode; otherwise, …