INSIGHT: UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always: "
UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always looks overdesigned when we try it for real in the browser. Here’s a hypothesis. Simple and useful designs just don’t seem good enough when they are dead pixels. They need to be brought to life before they can be appreciated. Until that happens we overcompensate with garnish.
try ruby! (in your browser): "Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!
Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.
Try out Ruby code in the prompt above. In addition to Ruby's builtin methods, the following commands are available:"
Interesting discussion by Microsoft's Dare Obasanjo about Facebook's architecture which services 200+ million users.
There are three key mantras that describe Facebook’s engineering culture
Move Fast and Break Things – The company encourages people to take risks and innovate
even at the risk of jeopardizing the stability of the site. It is important to them
to not become risk averse because this is often the downfall of companies as they
grow.
Huge Impact with Small Teams – Most features and underlying systems on the site are
built by teams of one to three people. They have a metric of users per developers
that they are particularly proud. They claim that at Facebook they have 1 developer
for every 1.2 million users which is better than most industry leaders including Google
(1 developer per 190,000 users), Amazon (1 developer per 96,000 users) and Microsoft
(1 developer per 75,000). [Ed. Note – not to be defensive but this metric seems
weird to me and it wasn’t clear how it is calculated. ]
Be Bold and Innovative – self explanatory
Underscore.js: "Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux."
Case-Hardened Web Badges: the Live Version - kentbrewster.com
Today's Plan
Build a script that:
type attributes
Another thing that works in HTML 5 – today – is that you can leave out all the type attributes related to MIME types. These are the attributes such as type="text/css"or type="text/javascript", which describe the type of contents the element in question contains or links to.
Instead of <style type="text/css"> you can just write <style>; instead of writing <script type="text/javascript">, you can just use <script>. You can omit type="text/css" in almost all document types actually, even in XHTML, but HTML 5 makes all this even simpler since consistent.
Icons Set Licensed Under Creative Commons: "
FatCow offers a nice, CC-licensed icons set for you, with 1000 images in 16x16/ 32x32. These should come in handy if you’re creating an app. I reordered the files a bit as they were in many different numbered folders in the original zip.
[Via Reddit. Reordered zip is CC.]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Icons Set Licensed Under Creative Commons | Comments]
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jQuery.sheet - My = new Object();: "What is jQuery.sheet?
jQuery.sheet gives you all sorts of possibilities when it comes to giving your web application a spreadsheet style interface with MS Excel style calculations."
Modernizr: "What is Modernizr?
Have you ever wanted to do if-statements in your CSS for the availability of cool features like border-radius? Well, with Modernizr you can accomplish just that! The syntax is very intuitive, too:
.multiplebgs div p {
/* properties for browsers that
support multiple backgrounds */
}
.no-multiplebgs div p {
/* optional fallback properties
for browsers that don't */
}"
Video Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
Telstra dumps Trading Post newspaper edition for online: "Telstra confirmed yesterday that the publication, which is owned by the telecommunications company's Sensis division, would be published solely online from the end of this month."