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Tag: web development

  • Symbolset

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    [A font made up of symbols and glyphs useful for desktop or mobile web development.][link] Symbolset gives you access to lots of commonly-used symbols which would normally be images, decreasing the page load time and number of requests needed to display your page. [link]: http://symbolset.com/ “Symbolset”

  • xip.io: wildcard DNS for everyone

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    [A new free service from 37 Signals][link]: xip.io is: >a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. This is ingenious and will probably become the standard for web development. I’m nearly surprised that Coda 2 didn’t ship with something like this built-in. Bring it on, plugin developers! [link]: http://xip.io/ “xip.io: wildcard…

  • Arduino and the Web using NodeJS

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    [A tutorial on how to hook up sensor data (or anything else your Arduino can spit out) to the Internet.][link] [link]: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/389676/Arduino-and-the-Web-using-NodeJS-and-SerialPort2 “Arduino and the Web using NodeJS and SerialPort2 – CodeProject”

  • Peapod Studios

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    [My friends at Peapod Studios have released a new version of their website, and it looks as great as you’d expect.][link] If you need design, branding, web development, or otherwise, you can’t do much better than Peapod. [link]: http://www.peapod.ca/ “Peapod Studios”

  • Coda 2 Released, 50% off Today Only

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    I’ve been using Coda 1 every day for 5 years to do my job. [Coda 2 is great][link], already, and couldn’t be more worth the price ($49.99 today!) If you’re a fan of the alternative CSS syntax [LESS][less], there’s already [a Coda 2 syntax extension for you][ext]. [link]: http://www.panic.com/coda/ “Coda 2” [ext]: https://github.com/bbpaulwelsh/Coda-2-LESS-mode “Coda 2…

  • Jeffrey Zeldman on his Web Design Manifesto 2012

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    [A follow-up interview with .net Magazine:][link] >If we don’t focus on the content the reader came for – if we continue to bombard and bamboozle our users with cluttered interfaces that satisfy stakeholder committees but frustrate the people who actually want to use our sites – our users will retaliate by removing our designs altogether.…

  • Coda 2

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    [Panic finally announces version 2.0 of Coda. Available May 24th, 2012.][link] I’ve been using Coda 1.x every day as my primary tool for web development since 2007. To say I’m excited about this is an understatement. As you might expect, the product website is gorgeous, innovative, and informative. Hint: Type the backslash key to make…

  • Opera confirms WebKit prefix usage

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    [Mozilla, Microsoft, and Opera are none too happy][link] about Webkit’s prefixes becoming a sort of organic standard, especially on mobile: >Opera, along with Microsoft and Mozilla, announced at a CSS Working Group meeting that we would support some WebKit prefixes. This is because too many authors of mobile sites only use the WebKit-prefixed version, and…

  • PNGPress

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    [PNGPress, my PNG image compressor for Mac OS X, is available on the Mac App Store worldwide.][link] >Good developers know that making images for the web is a constant battle between quality and file size. Great developers use PNGPress. Try it and see for yourself. Here are some promo codes: WHW94KHHE6A4 TNEMH4JKHP3M HXJEMTHHPLHW 3XFE7AWMYJMX 6ALNJWWWYJJ4…

  • Josh Clark .vs. Jakob Nielsen on Mobile Usability

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    [Kid gloves are off, and I’m with Clark:][link] >For all of Jakob Nielsen’s many great contributions to web usability over the years, his advice for mobile is just 180-degrees backward. His latest guidelines perpetuate several stubborn mobile myths that have led too many to create ‘lite’ mobile experiences that patronise users, undermine business goals, and…

  • aws – simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3

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    [A working and feature-rich command-line interface for Amazon S3 and EC2][link]. Pretty cool. via [@joshu][josh] [link]: http://timkay.com/aws/ “aws – simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3” [josh]: http://twitter.com/joshu

  • Beautiful web type

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    [A collection / demo of the “best” typefaces from Google’s web font directory][link]. Well-curated and paired nicely. This is a great resource. [link]: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ “Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory”

  • Apple’s Solution To Image Resolution On The Web

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    [The image-set() function][link], which was submitted to the css4-images public mailing list earlier this year. [link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/1103.html “[css4-images] The image-set() function (for responsive images) from Edward O'Connor on 2012-02-22 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)”

  • The importance of a response.

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    [Authentic Jobs is adding a user-viewable metric for the response rates of potential employers][link]. I love these guys. [link]: http://authenticjobs.tumblr.com/post/19742577782/response-rate “Authentic Jobs, The importance of a response.”

  • Adobe Shadow

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    [A new iOS app from Adobe which helps you test websites you are developing locally on your mobile devices more easily][link]. Currently free in the App Store. [link]: http://itunes.apple.com/app/adobe-shadow/id498621426 “App Store – Adobe Shadow”

  • Alex Bilbie’s MongoDB Library for CodeIgniter 2

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    [Easy to use, and v2 can be implemented in ANY PHP application, not just CodeIgniter.][link] CodeIgniter as a platform just keeps getting better. [link]: https://github.com/alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library/tree/v2 “alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library at v2”

  • JavaScript WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12

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    [Featuring live video from the built-in camera on your mobile, totally within the browser and without plugins.][link] This is great and exciting. [WebRTC][webrtc] is making big strides today. [link]: http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-webrtc-opera-mobile-12/ “JavaScript WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12 – Bocoup” [webrtc]: http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/ “WebRTC specification”

  • An Open Letter to Chris Dodd

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    [Well written, full of truth:][link] >Consider this letter our “Don’t tread on me!”. Our agenda is to protect our own liberty to create and our users’ liberty to enjoy those creations as they see fit. We have no give and no compromise on either of those, but long as Hollywood stays out of our patch…

  • Swiftlet

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    [“Quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you’ll ever use.”][link] [link]: https://github.com/ElbertF/Swiftlet “ElbertF/Swiftlet – GitHub”

  • 5 Principles For Good Code

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    While replying to a job posting, I started writing this little manifesto of sorts as a mission statement for myself. After kicking it around a little with my good friend [Jesper of Waffle Software][jesper], I felt I should open it up to the world for criticism, additions, and discussion. The format and content owes much…