HTML 5 Demos and Examples
HTML 5 Demos and Examples : Hacked together by @ rem . … Read the rest here
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New Programming Jargon
New Programming Jargon : Bugfoot: A bug that isn’t reproducible and has been sighted by only one person. Duck: A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product. Ghetto Code: A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the requirements. /via @ adactio … Read the rest here
Chillout Song
Chillout Song : zefrank: I received an email from a woman named Laura, who had recently moved to a new city for a new job. She was overwhelmed with anxiety and asked me to write her a song to help her calm down. I wrote a sketch of a chorus and quietly asked some people in my audience to record themselves singing along while wearing headphones. Few people engage their readers as well as zefrank. … Read the rest here
Vying for Talent
This year Authentic Jobs has seen some of its strongest months ever in its nearly five-year existence. Things are definitely trending upward in the creative industries, and we’ve seen our competitors also showing positive gains. Many of you reading this are gainfully employed or have no troubled finding your next freelance project. But the increase in companies hiring means more of these companies are vying for you, the talent star, to keep their products and services competitive. Because of this, it’s not surprising to see companies like Red Gate handing out a free iPad to anyone who qualifies to be interviewed for their engineer positions… Read the rest here
Vendors using Competing Prefixes
IE Mobile for Windows Phone 7 has decided to implement support for -webkit-text-size-adjust . They’ll also be adding their own duplicate vendor-specific prefix, -ms-text-size-adjust . That’s right, Microsoft will be adding support for another vendor’s non-standard implementation. Is this good or bad? … Read the rest here
iPad Case Finder
iPad Case Finder : I guess I no longer need to bother linking up iPad cases after this. /via @ meaganfisher … Read the rest here
Nike Football+ (Soccer) iPad App
Nike Football+ (Soccer) iPad App : If you coach or play football (or soccer as we Yankees call it), consider this iPad app a work of art. First, it’s practical—create a team roster, download training videos, and track the progress for each player or for yourself. Second, it’s well-designed, as you would expect from Nike. Third, it’s an outstanding example of how iPad can be anything you want it to be, anywhere you want it. I can easily see coaches using this right there on the practice field. You can bet on me using it with my sons on Fridays … Read the rest here
Visual Hierarchy is the Art of Managing, Not Eliminating
A few months ago 37signals redesigned Basecamp ’s notification emails, and the result was a move from plain-text emails to HTML emails. For reference, these emails are sent when someone posts or replies to any of the content types in the system (messages, to-dos, etc). I’m generally opposed to receiving HTML emails if a plain-text alternate is available. I use email as a tool to send and receive communication, and too often some creators of HTML email offer visual noise more than anything else. Ironically, they fail to leverage one advantage HTML email has over plain-text email: visual hierarchy, or the ability to help the reader get the right message using color, proportion, and so forth. Visual hierarchy, the classification of elements according to importance and relationship to other elements, tends to be one of the most ignored and underutilized principles of design. … Read the rest here
Elements Of Twitter Style
Elements Of Twitter Style : This is actually a really well-written piece on Twitter etiquette. Whether you’re an advanced or novice user, chances are you’ll take something away from it, especially beginning with “Write For The Medium”. … Read the rest here
“The Colosseo poster has to be experienced in person. Truly beautiful.”
“The Colosseo poster has to be experienced in person. Truly beautiful.” : Thank you, Tiffany . (It’s worth noting Tiffany Wardle earned her Master of Arts in Theory and History of Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading in England). … Read the rest here
Smaller PNGs
Last week I put together an animated infographic that required some flexibility. Alpha transparency was essential, but the number of images I needed to pull it off meant that my typical way of creating PNGs wasn’t going to work. Let’s be honest; Photoshop is absolutely terrible at saving transparent PNGs for web use. Your choices are between an 8-bit with 1-bit transparency (better than a GIF in terms of file size, but no better in terms of transparency options) or a huge 32-bit PNG with alpha transparency. There’s no middle ground. … Read the rest here
Speaking at LessConf 3010
In October 2009, the hashtag #lessconf began showing up repeatedly in my Twitter stream. The tweets were remarkably positive for something I’d heard nothing about previously. It turns out Steven Bristol and Allan Branch of Less Everything , the bright minds behind LessAccounting , were hosting a conference. Crush It! author Gary Vaynerchuk, Wufoo founder Kevin Hale and others spoke, and nearly 200 of you attended. This year’s LessConf 3010 resumes in Atlanta, Georgia, May 21–22… Read the rest here
Library of Congress to House Your Tweets
Library of Congress to House Your Tweets : Kent German, writing for CNET’s Crave Gadget Blog: The Library of Congress announced today —via Twitter, no less—that is acquiring the Twitter’s entire archive through donation…. Though the whole idea may sound bizarre, the Library already holds more than 167 terabytes of Web-based information, including legal blogs and Web sites for political candidates and current lawmakers. We all best write a little more carefully, I suppose. … Read the rest here
Sweetie’s Bakeshop Letterpress Business Cards
Sweetie’s Bakeshop Letterpress Business Cards : These are undeniably delicious. Well done, Adrienne . … Read the rest here
Twitter Unveils “Promoted Tweets” Advertising Plan
Twitter Unveils “Promoted Tweets” Advertising Plan : Claire Cain Miller, reporting for The New York Times: The advertising program, which Twitter calls Promoted Tweets, will show up when Twitter users search for keywords that the advertisers have bought to link to their ads. Later, Twitter plans to show promoted posts in the stream of Twitter posts, based on how relevant they might be to a particular user…. When a Twitter user searches for a word an advertiser bought, the promoted message will show up at the top of the results, even if it was written much earlier. The posts say they are promoted by the company in small type, and when someone rolls over a promoted post with a cursor, it turns yellow. Best Buy, Virgin America, Starbucks, and Bravo are among the first advertisers, but expect that list to grow by the thousands very shortly. … Read the rest here
Letterheady
Letterheady : Interesting letterhead designs, as it says. You didn’t have anything planned for the next hour anyway, right? /via @typographica … Read the rest here
Turning Web Video On Its Head
Here’s some fun. (For a sufficiently nerdy definition of “fun”.) Launch Safari 4 or Chrome 4. Drag Videotate to the bookmarks bar. Go opt into the YouTube HTML5 beta . Find your favorite YouTube video. … Read the rest here
Colosseo Contest #2: A Second iPad Giveaway
This second contest, much like the first , offers you a chance to win an iPad 16GB Wi-Fi (valued at $499 USD). It requires less cash but more effort. Contest #2: Win an iPad 16GB To have a shot at winning, here’s what you need to do: Using the content publishing method of your choice (Twitter, Tumblr, any blogging or CMS software, or even just straight HTML), write something that will be indexed and rank well for the Google search “ cameron moll colosseo ipad martian giveaway ”. Your text must contain a prominent link to colosseotype.com . A photo of the artwork may also increase your chances of winning. … Read the rest here
iLounge: iPad Case Gallery
iLounge: iPad Case Gallery : No excuses if you can’t find a case that’s hip, utilitarian, or whatever—plenty of options are already available. /via @cindyli … Read the rest here
Well that went well!
As I’ve said before, the quality of the acting in new Doctor Who has often gone some way to disguise the lack of a decent story. In particular, David Tennant’s swansong “The End of Time” was a big confused mess of abandoned plots and ‘reset buttons’, but it shone whenever there was one to one dialogue. It wasn’t a satisfactory end to his reign by any means. It’s not as if Russell T Davies can’t write good Who stories – ‘Gridlock’ and ‘Midnight’ show us he jolly well can – he justs gets a bit overexcited when it’s finale time. It’s like a Royal Variety Performance, Who style… Read the rest here