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It’s been an awful lot of work to get what was on the face of it, a simple idea , finally released. After 4 months of design, development and bug-fixing, my Shelf theme for The Theme Foundry is now available for Wordpress and Tumblr. This is a time of both joy, pride and nervousness! I’ve been working with Yan Sarazin of Statik Pulse , who has implemented the javascript side, and Brandon Dove who converted the HTML & CSS design into the final Wordpress Theme. Along with Drew Strojny who commissioned the theme, the team has been a joyful experience to work with! I’ve also learned a lot about using Git from this project, which has been an unexpected bonus. I’ll be doing a more thorough write-up of the process and what interesting challenges we had to solve along the way, but in the meantime, there is a Flickr Set where I’ve been documenting the process, and Drew has a written a post to introduce Shelf . Tagged: shelf , theme , tumblr , wordpress … Read the rest here

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HDSLR Shopping? What You Want is a Canon 60D : Stu Maschwitz, a self-described

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The Short Review The Boxee Box is a well made, beautiful piece of hardware that plays even large mkv files without complaining. However, it has a mass of regressions from the beta version: missing functionality, downgraded UI aesthetics & usability and online content is given more importance than your own files. All issues I have with Boxee Box are potentially solvable via firmware updates though! The Long Review After waiting 11 months for it be released, it was a shock when I discovered that the final Boxee Box UI had undergone so many radical changes. I cancelled my order, preferring to try the desktop software first to be sure that it still suited me as much as the beta. However, I saw some more reviews, spoke to the Boxee CEO Avner Ronen and saw his responses to the issues and felt confident again. So, the order was back on! There are many excellent reviews out there, and I will try not to cover the same ground as those, so make sure you also read: Engadget Crunchgear Matt Apps Next, let me state the conditions and criteria of this review. … Read the rest here

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iPhone 4 on a Glif, Manfrotto, GlideTrack, and Tripod : This is a little wacky and definitely looks like overkill. But it was a fun proof-of-concept to throw together. See the test video . Incidentally, you

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Canon PowerShot S95 : Shoots 720p HD video and has a built-in effect that mimics tilt-shift. Clever idea, and obviously it targets those who wouldn

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A brief followup to “ A Question of Degree “: I received the following message from the person who first asked the question: I just spent the last hour or so reading through the comments and, let me tell you, I can’t express how much they helped me! It is now clearly obvious to me that finishing my CS degree is the way to go. A CS degree can make me a better web developer by teaching me about algorithm design and analysis, performance issues, and just how to think like an engineer. Also, since the web changes constantly, a degree will help me embrace those changes. It will always be there for me to fall back on if the web industry doesn’t work out for me. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion, either in the comments here or elsewhere on the net. You made a positive difference in this world… Read the rest here

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The Boxee Box launch party happened in NYC last night, and with it, was the first look at the Boxee 1.0 software. When Boxee first appeared in alpha, this is what it looked like: It was OK, but I wasn’t a big fan of its aesthetics. However, early this year they unveiled the Boxee Beta interface, with IA work by Whitney Hess . I was won over. It had warmth, atmosphere and character. The main navigation icons were really well done, and gone was the quirky typeface that didn’t have big screen impact. … Read the rest here

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I recently found myself asked for advice, which feels odd even at the best of times, and this was (it seemed to me) of a particularly serious nature. I’m curious to know what you think is the proper answer. A few days back, I got e-mail with the following questions: …in your opinion, how useful is a computer science degree for a career in web development? I’m a second year CS major, and considering dropping out because I don’t see the value in it anymore. … Read the rest here

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Things have been, and will continue to be, quiet around here this week and part of next. I

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by Robin Sloan I don’t like candy. Sure, I had my Halloween hoard like any kid, and I’ve snagged a Snickers in line at the supermarket plenty of times. But really, I don’t like this stuff. It brings me no joy—and in fact, I think it symbolizes a lot of the problems with our food system today. Luckily, I think candy is a historical accident, not a food group. And I think its days are numbered. … Read the rest here

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In yesterday

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Modernizr on the Server-Side : James Pearce: The current vogue seems to be to do as much [adjusting web content] as possible on the client-side: media queries, progressive enhancement, adding CSS body classes, and so on

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To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish : I seem to be on a kick today quoting myself and others, so bear with me. Eric Karjaluoto

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BBEdit 9.6 Adds HTML5 Support, Among Other Things : Plenty of people have tweeted or blogged this already, but having been a BBEdit user for nearly a decade, I

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How Media Changes Politics : Seth Godin: When attention is scarce and there are many choices, media costs something other than money. It costs interesting. If you are angry or remarkable or an outlier, you

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I’ve been banging on about them for ages, but I’d finally whittled down my choices of “what Media Center to adopt next” to just 2 choices: the New Apple TV or the Boxee Box. Why not a HTPC ? I’ve tried that route before, and while I could run Boxee/Plex/whatever from a PC such as an Acer Revo, I want to use something that was designed to be controlled by a remote, and run just the media center app. No OS getting in the way, or needing a mouse and keyboard to keep it running. … Read the rest here

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Christophe of Karma Orange.com has created some fabulous Doctor Who fan posters Tagged: drwho , illustration … Read the rest here

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It’s that time again: the 2010 edition of The Survey For People Who Make Websites is open and taking your input. If you’re someone who creates web sites, whether all the time or some of the time or even just occasionally, please take just a little bit of your day (as I write this, the average time-to-completion is just over 10 minutes) to let us know about you. Furthermore, please spread the word to any groups to which you belong—local SIGs, mailing lists, newsgroups, forums, message boards, and so on. I truly believe it’s important to the profession as a whole to have as many web folks as possible participate. I was asked a little while back why we do the survey, and my answer surprised me not just for its content but also for how much passion I felt… Read the rest here

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Things will probably be a little quiet around here this week. I