Lettering.js
A very intriguing typography plugin for jQuery. The example gallery is pretty damned impressive.
A very intriguing typography plugin for jQuery. The example gallery is pretty damned impressive.
A jQuery plugin that provides a “rumble” or shaking effect to HTML elements on various events. It’s funny and pretty well done, but be careful, it can cause photoepileptic seizures if used for evil.
Rogue Amoeba has been a big name in consumer audio software for Mac OS X since their inception. One of their biggest apps is an application for streaming audio to the web from your Mac called Nicecast. I sometimes use Nicecast to stream audio to friends and relatives, and it’s very good software.
There’s one thing that annoys me, though: Nicecast doesn’t automatically update the stream you send with the artist and track title, so your listeners don’t know what they’re hearing unless they’ve either heard it before or ask you. Luckily for us, this is OS X, and that means we have access to Applescript.
Cutting to the chase: copy and paste the code below into Applescript Editor (Located in the Applications → Utilities folder on your hard drive) and save it somewhere. Line-wraps are marked ¬, which should be removed from your copy/pasted code.
property sleepTime : 10 repeat tell application "iTunes" try if not (exists current track) then return set this_artist to (get artist of current track) set this_track to (get name of current track) end try end tell tell application "Finder" try set current_user to do shell script "whoami" set the_file to "/Users/" & current_user & ¬ "Library/Application Support/Nicecast/NowPlaying.txt" set eof of the_file to 0 write ("Artist: " & this_artist & return & "Title: " & ¬ this_track) to the_file end try end tell do shell script "/bin/sleep " & sleepTime end repeat
The script updates your NowPlaying.txt file every 10 seconds (you can change that setting by modifying the sleepTime
property), until you tell it to stop by hitting the “Stop” button in Applescript Editor.
If you found this script useful, a donation would make me feel pretty good about this use of my time.
Missed this due to my obsessive monitoring of the situation in Egypt, but this is very good news. Code Igniter’s evolutionary step has begun.
Being an optimized version of the original Box2d-JS port, which is based on Box2d 1.4. Does your head hurt yet?
This version depends on jQuery instead of Prototype, and uses SVG instead of the Canvas tag. Check out the demo.
This one uses the even newer Box2d 2.1. It, like the previously mentioned port, is extremely short on documentation aside from the standard Box2d docs.
An (automated) port of Box2dflash 2.0, which is a bit slower than the older (and dead) Box2D 1.4 JS port, but is less complicated to use and has fewer dependencies.
A useful overview of Ranges in an HTML Document, with examples for (of import to myself) getting the text a user has selected so you can do stuff with it.
Of note: None of the examples here seem to work on iOS WebKit.
A pack containing a rudimentary baseline HTML5 document, with CSS and JS files. It sounds like a does a bit more than it needs to do, but I suppose in this case that’s better than not enough.
A heck of a demo to start off your monday morning. Comes in an LGPL 3 package of C++ and JS code.
Looks like a good implementation, be sure to check out the demo. Brian’s example is great for people looking for a better understanding of A* in general, and it helped me out personally, but I recently came upon this version which in my tests is faster by a wide margin, and supports multiple modes of traversal in addition to Manhattan.
Converted from the publically-available CSV on the official Cubs site, and massaged into SQL by yours truly for the forthcoming relaunch of a project and made available because I googled and found nothing.
Download: Cubs 2010 Schedule SQL File 8kb zipped.
What appears to be a PHP/C++ cross-compiler. This could be some serious mojo for PHP. That name is awful, though.
The latest addition to Mark Pilgrim’s quickly-becoming-essential “Dive Into HTML5” series is about forms, and it is (as one might expect) the most cogent description of HTML5’s new form attributes and types that I’ve seen so far.
Released on Dec. 24th, great news for small-time game makers.
Work-related plea: Has anyone gotten LinkedIn’s API to play nice with PHP5 without the use of the PECL OAuth library or Zend’s?
To the non-coders here: These are all Things, I promise. I did not make them up.
Pure HTML, CSS and Javascript, no App Store required. Play it.