January 2011
47 posts
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Free Video Converter for Mac →
FLV Crunch can convert many video file types (FLV, MPGs, MP4s, MOVs, AVIs, and WMVs) into a wide variety of formats. You can control bitrate, fps and resolution (with presets for iPods, VGA, etc).
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Creative Coding Podcast →
On this new podcast, Iain Lobb and Seb Lee-Delisle discuss the ins-and-outs of programming for creative applications. In this inaugaural episode,they discuss casual gaming and choices between Flash, HTML(5), Unity3D and iOS.
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Excanvas.js – HTML5 Canvas Tag in IE6-8 →
This javascript enables the canvas tag for IE browsers. Real world use: http://nikebetterworld.com
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Aviary Screen Capture →
This Firefox addon is excellent for quick screen capture. It will perform a screen capture and then open the image instantly in a basic image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), edit (crop, rotate and resize) and get the exact pixel colors of the image.
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Voxels: A New Trend in Game Development
Voxel-based games are an exciting new trend in indie game development. Minecraft is an example of this. For a look at what Voxel games look like, check out Voxatron: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=201
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- A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps... →
<angular/> teaches your old browser new tricks for building web applications. GoogleTechTalk Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvcgVSynRg
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jPlayer: HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery →
jPlayer is the new hotness in media players. Free, open source and easily skinned with css, it is ready for production use.
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Protovis: A graphical approach to visualization →
From the Stanford Visualization Group, a free, open source and extremely cool data visualization library which uses javascript and SVG to deliver a wide array of data eye candy.
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25 jQuery Slider Tutorials →
A very cool collection of tutorials for creating all kinds of sliders.
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WatchA video screencast that takes a look a jQuery templates, an official jQuery plugin for rendering data into templated html content using jQuery.
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Flash Game Frameworks
Some widely used, well-designed frameworks for building games in Flash: PushButton Engine - http://pushbuttonengine.com Flixel - http://flixel.org FlashPunk - http://flashpunk.net
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What is the Worst Software Bug in History? →
Next time you release something with a bug in it, you can be glad that at least it didn’t result in giving people a lethal dose of radiation like one of the items on this worst bugs of all time list.
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Anatomy of a WordPress Theme →
An infographic that goes through the WordPress framework
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JavaScript for AS3 Developers →
Some techniques to code like Actionscript in JavaScript.
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Making It a Mobile Web App →
A look at the benefits of building mobile web apps as an alternative to native device apps.
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Case Study: Unreal Source Code →
Tim Sweeney, the Lead Developer for the multiplayer game engine for Unreal, writes this really cool, in-depth look at the client-server networking architecture that became one of the most widely used engines in gaming.
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Plupload →
Allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.
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arbor.js →
A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery
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Lua for ActionScript Developers: Crash Course →
The Corona SDK seems to be the most popular framework around for multi-device app development. It uses the Lua programming language and this post is a good intro to it.
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vCam AS3 v1.1 →
Tool for quickly creating a ‘virtual camera’ for animations in a scene with Flash.
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Web Design & CSS Inspiration for the iPhone →
iPhone CSS Gallery showcasing iPhone web interfaces for iPhone inspiration.
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11 More Things I Learned from the jQuery Source →
If you’re into JavaScript, check out this video from HTML5 Guru Paul Irish
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Apple’s Guide To Developing Web Apps →
Also known as The Safari Web Content Guide
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Onbile →
Free online tool for creating mobile sites.
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Cloud9IDE: Open Source JavaScript Development in... →
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EA Ad Goes Viral Thanks to Disgusted Moms →
Draftfcb San Fran created this #yourmomhatesthis campaign for EA’s Dead Space 2.
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Object Oriented Programming In JavaScript →
This one is for devs who are interested in using OOP in JS.
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JavaScript Weekly →
Subscribe to this weekly newsletter for the latest news about JavaScript
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5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery →
Some of jQuery’s powerful features are obscure—this article describes five useful features of jQuery that you might not know about.
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A Quick Comparison of NoSQL Database Solutions →
This web page compares the current database alternatives to MySQL.
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Radi App →
This Mac app (in free beta) is for creating html5 vector graphics, animations and video.
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Structurer →
This app allows you to rapidly create file/folder structures for your new projects.
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Developing My First Mobile/Web App →
John Polacek writes about his experience with creating his first mobile/web app.
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Little Big Details →
This Tumblog is a collection of neat little UI details.
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HTML Is The New HTML5 →
It appears that HTML is moving to an unversioned development model, meaning that once the HTML5 spec is considered finished, that the spec will then be treated as a living document. So, the battle to replace HTML5 as the new web technology buzzword is on.
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Interactive Marketing of the Future: Digital... →
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Learning Git →
Dennis Kim wrote a post about using Git for Version Control
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Eric Schmidt: All of Google's Strategic... →
A quick look at the three main fronts where Google’s strategic vision will come into play in 2011
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How Facebook Ships Code →
An inside look at how Facebook develops and releases software
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MilkPEP, Pour One More →
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Interview with Matt Mullenweg →
Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress.
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Yourls: Create Your Own URL Shortener →
A small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service
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How To Clone Delicious →
A case study of sorts, demonstrating how an easy idea becomes complicated when it enters the world of development using Delicious as an example.
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Responsive Web Design and How To Use It →
Responsive Web Design is a new technique that is gaining in popularity. It may not be the right solution in every case, as there are reasons for and against, but it is an option worth considering when planning a website.
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Website Tour with jQuery →
Check out this neat jQuery script that creates an interactive tour through a website or web app.
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14-Year-Old Writes iPhone Game That Is Now... →