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Complete list of CSS rules and its compatibility

<p>Quick introduction, <a href="http://pylonshq.com/" target="_blank">Pylons</a> is a Python web framework that favors flexibility and customization.</p> <p><a href="http://github.com/facebook/tornado" target="_blank">Tornado</a> is also a web framework (minimal), open sourced by the guys from FriendFeed (they ended up getting bought by Facebook). It comes with asynchronous web server and WSGI server.</p> <h3>Prerequisites</h3> <pre><code> easy_install pylons easy_install tornado </code></pre> <h3>Getting Started</h3> <p>The harder way to use tornado is through PasteScript. We tried, but was not successful. The easier way is to instantiate PylonsApp object via make_app() on middleware.py</p> <pre><code> from paste.deploy import appconfig from tornado.wsgi import WSGIContainer from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop from your_app.config.middleware import make_app port = 5000 config = appconfig("config:%s" % "/your/app/development.ini") app = make_app(config.global_conf, **config.local_conf) # Start the tornado IO loop http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app)) http_server.listen(port) IOLoop.instance().start() </code></pre> <p>That's pretty much it. Get the <a href="http://gist.github.com/468976" target="_blank">gist</a>.</p> <p>One caveat:</p> <ul> <li>When using Tornado, you cannot set <em>debug</em> flag to True.</li> </ul> <h3>The basic architecture of Socialinks and how Tornado affect performance</h3> <p>Here at <a href="../../../recent/">Socialinks</a>, our setup is pretty typical. 4 <a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WSGI" target="_blank">CherryPy</a> WSGI servers fronted by Nginx. We replaced those 4 CherryPy with 4 Tornado WSGI servers.</p> <p>Our caching scheme is quite simple, logged-in vs non-logged-in.Most of non logged in pages are cached using memcache, we cache very minimally on logged in pages. Thus, we are not expecting much performance benefit on typical read-only scenario.</p> <p>But:</p> <ul> <li>Our <em>GET /recent/</em> request time went from 500ms+ to 450ms+ average.</li> <li>Each CherryPy instance used to consume between 45mb - 95mb of RAM. In comparison, 1 Tornado server hasn't even exceed 50mb of RAM yet.</li> <li>Overall, the site felt unscientifically faster.</li> </ul> <p>We were pleasantly surprised.</p>

Linear Gradients - Web tool that can help you generates gradient button.

<p>Website that helps you choose a color scheme. It even gives you examples on how it might look like on a website.</p>

<p>Browsers have the ability to optimize readability by using kerning pairs, it turns out.</p>

<p>The github project is located <a href="http://github.com/bauhouse/fluid960gs/tree/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

<p>BeautifulSoup documentation</p>

<p>Fast Syntax Highlighter on jQuery</p>

<p>And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQTouch" target="_blank">it</a> works for android too. Competitor to jQTouch are:</p> <ul> <li>iWebkit (beware when searching on iwebkit using google)</li> <li>and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/iui/" target="_blank">iUI</a>.</li> </ul>