May 2012
18 posts
4 tags
via Frank: There is a Horse in the Apple Store →
viafrank: There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me. I think, “Why?” What is the villain here that blinds all of these people to this situation? Am I nuts for thinking this is exceptional? Does anyone else see this? Did I accidentally drop acid and not realize? I must take a photo….
May 31st
978 notes
3 tags
ngneers: CQRS and Hook.io →
petrjanda: Hook.io is popular library for node.js, which allows you to build up distributed cluster of applications (hooks) which communicate by sending an events to each other. Command and query responsibility segregation (cqrs) is the way to design your server, where write and read side are…
May 31st
2 notes
3 tags
Eric Bidelman: idb.filesystem.js - Bringing the... →
ericbidelman: The HTML5 Filesystem API is a versatile API that addresses many of the uses cases that the other offline APIs don’t. It can remedy their shortcomings, like making it difficult to dynamically caching a page. I’m looking at you AppCache! My ♥ for the API is deep—so much so that I wrote a …
May 31st
16 notes
“What is very exciting about U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) ‘Commerce Business...”
– — Department of Commerce app challenge: An interview with Mike Kruger More opportunities for civic startups and the context for our Civic Startup Accelerator. Open government commerce data is a big and growing opportunity for startups. Application deadline is June 1; apply now:...
May 26th
2 notes
May 25th
2 tags
Using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop
yummygum: Whatever business you’re in, productivity can make or break not only your profit but also your morale. In (web)design we’re constantly looking for little productivity boosts. One thing that has proven itself to be a huge productivity boost for us, is assigning keyboard shortcuts to frequently used functions in Photoshop. Read More
May 25th
9 notes
3 tags
One PSD in multiple windows
yummygum: Dutch designer Jonno Riekwel once tweeted a great tip for working in Photoshop regarding designing detailed UI elements. He pointed out the option to open one Photoshop document and displaying it in multiple separate windows. This means you can align multiple windows next to each other (or above/beneath one another for that matter). Read More
May 25th
19 notes
May 25th
27 notes
1 tag
May 24th
21,548 notes
3 tags
rel="logo" →
borismann: rel=”logo” is a proposed standard for serving and maintaining up-to-date logos for use in various media. By including a line of code on your site that links to a scalable vector logo, you make it very easy for other websites, applications, readers, clients, and stations to ensure that they are using an approved logo directly from you. rel=”logo” is a link relation tag, much like...
May 23rd
2 notes
Apple: The Curious Case of the Upside Down Apple... →
Joe Moreno spent nine years working at Apple during the Steve Jobs era. Today, he writes about something that bothered Steve Jobs for a long time: the problem of the upside down Apple logo.
May 22nd
5 tags
May 22nd
5 notes
May 22nd
2 notes
3 tags
Constant Improvement: Spine.js vs Backbone.js →
hjortureh: Spine and Backbone are two Javascript MVC frameworks that look very similar on the surface but under the hood there are key differences. The purpose of this article is to highlight these differences and hopefully make it easier to choose which framework fits your needs.
May 22nd
36 notes
May 22nd
2 notes
May 21st
swapped.cc/blog: Google Bot now crawls arbitrary... →
swapped: Just spotted something while looking through Apache logs: 66.249.67.106 ... "GET /ajax/xr/ready?x=clcgvsgizgxhfzvf HTTP/1.1" ... This is an ajax request issued from document.ready() callback of one website’s pages. This means that the bot now executes the Javascript on the pages it crawls….
May 18th
43 notes
FF Chartwell, a Chart Font →
cameronmoll: Earlier today Erik Spiekermann made mention of FF Chartwell, and, at least conceptually, it’s pretty fantastic. Similar to the way icon fonts replace keyboard characters with icons, FF Chartwell uses alphanumeric characters to generate beautiful charts on the fly. To my knowledge, however,…
May 17th
24 notes
April 2012
12 posts
1 tag
WatchWatch
Flash is Dead…Long Live Flash, Tobias Schneider talking about Gordon, a Flash player written in 100% JavaScript.
Apr 28th
1 note
4 tags
about:khuey: Fixing the Memory Leak →
khuey: The MemShrink effort that has been underway at Mozilla for the last several months has substantially decreased the memory usage of Firefox for most users. There are still some remaining issues that lead to pathological memory use. One of those issues is leaky addons, which Nick has…
Apr 27th
17 notes
5 tags
OpenPhoto launches iPhone app
webfwd: We welcomed the OpenPhoto project to WebFWD after their successful Kickstarter campaign last year. As an open source photo platform to help Dropbox and other cloud storage users share, organize and enjoy their photos, they have made significant progress. Today marks a major milestone for them team: launching their iPhone app! Read more here, download the app here, and start snapping!
Apr 27th
5 notes
3 tags
Kevin Urrutia: Creating CSS3 moving circles →
kevinurrutia:
Apr 22nd
5 notes
Apr 21st
1 note
4 tags
TELEPORT TEAM presents DICK VON LOCKELY & HILTON...
teleportteam:                                                    DOWNLOAD THE FULL .ZIP FILE HERE!
Apr 20th
10 notes
Apr 19th
2 tags
Tom Gallacher's Blog: How to install Node.js on... →
gHow to install Node.js on your Raspberry Pi:
Apr 19th
13 notes
: CSS Transit Map Legend →
jlord: I’ve been working on a transit map in TileMill. Initially I made the legend as an image in Illustrator, then decided to webifiy it so that it’s editable for the map’s future users, should elements change, and so that other people can hack with it, if they are so inclined. I forgot to Google…
Apr 11th
3 notes
Open-data Cities Conference →
Open Data Cities Conference will focus on how publicly-funded organisations can engage with citizens to build more creative, prosperous and accountable communities.
Apr 6th
1 tag
Martian Wabbit Productions: The Virtues of a... →
Laziness The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don’t have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a…
Apr 4th
3 notes
Apr 3rd
1 note
March 2012
5 posts
Woopie Blog: Webkit subpixel aliasing and icon... →
makewoopie: Using web fonts and @font-face as a way to serve icons to web pages and apps is a very useful technique that allows designers to serve icons that can easily be easily recoloured and scaled. They also have the advantage of being easier to add and change, as you don’t have to create new sprites and…
Mar 31st
21 notes
5 tags
A Shiny New Me: Bridging The PhoneGap:... →
burkeholland: This is the first post in a series that I have been meaning to write for a while. PhoneGap (now called Cordova) is the defacto platform for building native applications with HTML5. In the past few years we have seen quite a few JavaScript frameworks pop up to help you with your UI, which has…
Mar 26th
2 notes
How to create click-to-call links for mobile... →
Create Click to Call Links in Mobile Browsers
Mar 26th
1 tag
GAMIFICATION: Why Gamification is the exact... →
bunchball: By Steve Patrizi, Chief Revenue Officer at Bunchball It’s an understandable perception: you hear the word gamification, and when pronounced correctly [gay-muh-fi-kay-shuhn], the word “game” slaps you right in the face. It must be about making games and playing and having fun, right? Wrong. In…
Mar 26th
8 notes
2 tags
Mar 2nd
7 notes
February 2012
10 posts
Feb 17th
1 note
3 tags
The CfA Brigade: Building the New Civic... →
The CfA Brigade: Building the New Civic Infrastructure | Code for America
Feb 17th
Box of Bundles - collaborative bundle of design... →
imjustcreative:
Feb 16th
5 notes
Feb 12th
535 notes
Feb 12th
1,622 notes
5 tags
Badass JavaScript: psd.js: You Guessed It - A... →
badassjs: Ryan LeFevre has been working on psd.js, which is as you might have already guessed, is a Photoshop Document parser that works in both the browser and Node.js. psd.js is a general purpose file parser for PSD files created in Photoshop. Given a PSD file, it can parse out information such as…
Feb 3rd
28 notes
6 tags
Feb 2nd
5 tags
Feb 2nd
4 notes
4 tags
Feb 2nd
2 notes
6 tags
Feb 2nd
January 2012
45 posts
4 tags
BRYCE DOT VC: Our First Pull Request →
brycedotvc: A few weeks back we put OATV.com and it’s underlying code up on GitHub. At the time, I thought it would serve as a repo for sharing some of the work we’d done in designing our new site. And my hope was that it would be helpful for someone looking to build a site with a similar look and feel. Then, last week, something happened.
Jan 31st
17 notes
1 tag
Bricss: Simple responsive design test page →
bricss: There are some pretty complex testing tools for responsive designs out there. I even see people constantly resizing their browser window using on-screen rulers. The easiest approach to me is just a simple page with a bunch of iframes, like Matt Kersley’s test page. Because I always ended up…
Jan 30th
40 notes
5 tags
Martian Wabbit Productions: JustVector Social... →
seich: I’ve been pretty bored lately, so I decided to redesign my site and found an awesome social icon set by Alex Peattie (http://www.alexpeattie.com) to go with the new design. The set is minimalistic and really cool! Unfortunately, I wasn’t as happy to work with it as I would have liked to…
Jan 29th
42 notes
Open: Introducing ICE: Writing for the Web First →
ICE is a customizable JavaScript library that will allow you to track changes in any element that is contenteditable, or in a TinyMCE or Wordpress text editor. At this early stage, ICE has some limitations, but we think it is a very useful tool and hope that others will help us expand the project. Patches and forks are welcome at our repository, https://github.com/NYTimes/ice/. An ICE demo is at...
Jan 28th
Jan 28th