February 2012
42 posts
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Tinker
Similar to jsFiddle, this site lets you code and share html/css/js functional code demos. Here’s an example demo of a spotify search:
https://tinker.io/22681/2
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High Impact Homepages →
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50 Examples of Responsive Design →
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Air Jordan 2012 →
Another site featuring lots of scroll animation effects from Nike.
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James Anderson 613 →
Website for this cricket star makes nice use of Raphael, a javascript drawing library.
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Intype →
Free new text editor for developers.
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amCharts →
Great source for free HTML5/JavaScript charts
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Isotope →
Exquisite jQuery Plugin for Magical Layouts
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Bootstrap Tools
Twitter’s Bootstrap framework is really catching on in popularity since launching a new responsive version. Here are new theming tools that have popped up.
http://bootstrap.io
http://bootswatch.com
http://stylebootstrap.info
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Web-Drawing Throwdown: Paper.js Vs. Processing.js... →
Comparison of 3 popular JavaScript drawing libraries.
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Real-time Web Technologies Guide →
Link page with all the latest services, libraries and frameworks for real-time web.
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Usability Testing Infographic →
Did you know that 85% of a website’s usability issues can be found by 3-5 people? Learn this and more on this nice infographic.
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Designing Web Applications eBook →
A free, non-technical guide to best practices when developing web apps.
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“Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile →
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Why Developing an HTML5 Game Is Too Risky →
HTML5 is the right choice for websites, but when it comes to games, it is still experimental.
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2011 CMS Marketshare Report
The top 3 remain the same, Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Concrete5 is the new hot CMS though, gaining 521% in marketshare on the year.
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/2011-open-source-cms-market-share-report-wordpress-drupal-joomla-on-top-013679.php
Concrete5: http://www.concrete5.org
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JS1K →
The 2012 contest for the best JavaScript demos where file size is 1kb or less is underway and submissions are being posted.
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10 Best Mobile Frameworks →
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Scrollkit Web →
Tool for creating standalone webpages without writing code.
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Setting Up A Build Process for JavaScript & CSS... →
Learn how to automate the build process (code minification, pre-processing, etc.) for your projects with ANT.
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Clients-Side MVC Frameworks Compared →
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Create a Wordcloud →
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Kaggle
Kaggle.com is making data science a sport. This fascinating new startup is already changing the world, running contests that help companies, governments and researchers crack their toughest problems. NASA uses them. http://www.kaggle.com
Great interview with the co-founders of Kaggle. http://techzinglive.com/page/927/166-tz-interview-anhony-goldbloom-and-jeremy-howard-kaggle
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Podcasts For Hackers →
Highly recommend checking these out!
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Sendhub →
Interesting SMS-focused startup.
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Real-Time Showcase →
HTML5 Websockets has made it easier than ever to build robust real-time websites and apps. This is a nice showcase of apps built on the Pusher platform.
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API Roundup →
A list of the best current API’s out there, ready to be piped in and mashed up.
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Open Data Sources
Freebase - An entity graph of people, places and things, built by a community that loves open data. http://www.freebase.com
Factual - Build on Living Data: Access great data for your web and mobile apps http://www.factual.com
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Vidless →
Easy, free video chat.
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Big HTML5 Tools Refresh
Updates to everybody’s favorite HTML5 Libraries:
HTML5 Boilerplate 3: A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome. http://html5boilerplate.com
Initializr 2.5: Start an HTML5 Project in 15 seconds. http://initializr.com
Modernizr 2.5: Starting point for making sites and apps work exactly right no matter the browser or device. http://www.modernizr.com
Mobile HTML5 Boilerplate...
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jQuery Plugin Patterns →
Overview of the best current approaches to jQuery plugins.
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Big Background Slideshow Plugins
jQuery plugin for a fullscreen background slideshow http://www.buildinternet.com/project/supersized/
Another one - BgStretcher http://www.ajaxblender.com/bgstretcher-2-jquery-stretch-background-plugin-updated.html
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SASS Articles
A couple of recent articles on the new SASS trend (a new way of coding CSS)
More or LESS? http://cognition.happycog.com/article/more-or-less
Musings on Preprocessing http://css-tricks.com/musings-on-preprocessing/
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Frameless →
Frameless grid is a different approach to responsive, featuring a non-fluid grid system.
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Grey Goose Vodka →
Their new site is both responsive (adjust your browser window size to see) and cool scrolly (scroll down the page slowly to see)
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40 Examples of HTML5 Canvas →
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How I Explained REST To My Wife →
REST (Representational State Transfer) is at the foundation of how the web works. Here is a simple explanation of what it is, how it works and why it is important.
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Screenleap →
Share your screen instantly with a friend, on any device with a browser, for free.
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Analyze Your Follower Power →
Free service that tells you who your most influential followers are and how much you influence them (takes 30 seconds or so)
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Bootstrap 2.0 →
From Twitter, an open source, simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript framework for building websites and web apps.
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IECSS.COM →
Lists the default user agent styles for all CSS elements for IE and other browsers.