Chris Stefano virtualstaticvoid

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

	# Tint2 config file
	# Generated by tintwizard (http://code.google.com/p/tintwizard/)
	# For information on manually configuring tint2 see http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Configure

	# Background definitions
	# ID 1
	rounded = 3
	border_width = 0
	#background_color = #000000 60
	background_color = #000000 80

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Script to create and download a database backup on Heroku
	# Written by Chris Stefano (https://github.com/virtualstaticvoid)
	#
	# See http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pgbackups for details
	#

	appname=$1
	filename=${appname}_db_$(date +%Y%m%d)_$(date +%H%M).pg_backup

	# CQRS+ES Domain DSL

	class Symbol
	def snake_case
	to_s.gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/, '\1_\2').
	gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/, '\1_\2').
	tr("-", "_").
	downcase.to_sym
	end

	user nginx;
	worker_processes 5;

	error_log /var/log/nginx.error.log;
	pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

	events {
	worker_connections 1024;
	}

	#!/bin/bash

	sudo apt-get install ufw
	sudo ufw enable
	sudo ufw allow ssh
	sudo ufw allow http

	#!/bin/bash
	sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt

	[branch "master"]
	mergeoptions = --no-ff --no-commit
	[branch "development"]
	mergeoptions = --ff-only

	#!/bin/bash
	sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse