via Frank: There is a Horse in the Apple Store -
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….
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…
Eric Bidelman: idb.filesystem.js - Bringing the HTML5 Filesystem API to More Browsers -
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 …
“What is very exciting about U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) ‘Commerce Business Apps Challenge’ is that this is another Commerce contribution to the President’s Open Innovation agenda. We’ve been releasing data on Data.gov for years, but now we are using that data in a way that businesses can more easily consume so they can grow and create jobs. As Vint Cerf of Google said, ‘Unlocking US Government data will not only stimulate new uses for it but also draw attention to this vital trove of information that has likely lain fallow for lack of visibility and digital accessibility.’” —
— 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: codeforamerica.org/accelerator
(via codeforamerica)
Web Actions: Examples and Failures, a set by Erin Jo Richey on Flickr.
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.
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).
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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 commonly used icon tags favicon or apple-touch-icon.
Logo-only seems such a waste - there is other, basic information (address, contact, etc.) that really needs to be part of something like this.
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Apple: The Curious Case of the Upside Down Apple Logo(via @Gizmodo) -
dissent is patriotic: hivebuzz
Yoko Liriano won this t-shirt by posting 5 tweets with the hashtag #hivebuzz before anyone else at the 1st Amendment Hack Jam!
Constant Improvement: Spine.js vs Backbone.js -
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.
Mark Zuckerberg: Worth 21 Billion $$$. Can’t spare the cash to make Facebook accessible.
