My experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas Whitney Hess at A List Apart: My client says, “I want to build a spaceship!” I say, “No, we need to make a kite.” (tagged: design ui ux leadership usability article todo ) FBI says mastermind of botnet nabbed at msnbc.com (via B²) (tagged: crime […]
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we? (tagged: blog business news politics society charity ) My Biggest Fear as a Developer… at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey) (tagged: design ui ux ) HTML5 Fuzzies Zeldman on "HTML5": To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not […]
Janet Fitch’s 10 rules for writers Careful w/ #2 though… (tagged: fiction language literature writing ) 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress (tagged: wordpress optimization ) Nice Entity "Find your character!" — what a great idea (and a great design) (tagged: ascii Unicode webdev xhtml design entities reference typography cheatsheet ) Caching Improvements in Internet […]
Launch Pad Workshop report: Five best discoveries in astronomy over the past 20 years (tagged: science ) What Can You Tell Me About Ri? at Al Dente (tagged: rye whiskey todo ) The Only HTML5 Resources You Need for Getting Up to Speed (tagged: html5 webdev ) Dojo Confessions (Or: How I gave up my […]
In case you haven’t heard yet–Flickr is rolling out a new photo page (pictured here) and I must say… It looks great. Congrats to the team that worked on this, they did a hell of a job. A few notes that I pulled together from playing around with it this week: The lightbox mode is […]
JetBrains WebStorm via Ajaxian —"The best IDE for Web development with JavaScript, HTML and CSS" (tagged: css editor html html5 javascript software webdev work todo ) Futuristic mega-projects by Shimizu at Pink Tentacle (via Boing Boing) (tagged: research future architecture design environment energy inspiration scifi sustainability ) A multicellular organism that lives without oxygen at […]
Gulf oil spill: Be prepared for the worst at Boing Boing — a quote within a quote, re: Exxon Valdez: Despite heroic efforts involving more than 11,000 people, 2 billion dollars, and aggressive application of the most advanced technology available, only about 8 percent of the oil was ever recovered. In other words, off-shore drilling […]
More from Eyjafjallajokull at Boston.com — simply incredible (tagged: Eyjafjallajokull eruption ash photography news art ) QuirksBlog: A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel Must read. But later. (tagged: css design html webdev pixels work todo essay ) High-performance DOM scripting (tagged: DOM javascript work todo ) The words David Foster Wallace […]
node.js (tagged: dev framework google javascript library programming webdev todo research ) Express Node.js Web Development Framework (tagged: coding webdev dev framework javascript todo research ) Tagxedo – Creator Well that's kind of cool… (tagged: art creativity design generator visualization writing ) iPad web development tips at NCZOnline — user agent strings, reported viewport sizes, […]