From the deep
Feb 18
Pure CSS3 Bokeh effect
One of the best apps made using CSS3, that’s for sure. A few more options would be nice, such as changing colours of the circles and being able to place them manually.
EZ-CSS: An easy to use, lightweight, CSS framework
It is light (1kb), flexible, browser-friendly and easy to use! ez-css is a different kind of CSS framework. Authors are not bound to a “grid”. Plus, columns and gutters can be of any width.
Feb 12
jQuery plugin: Quicksand
I love Mac apps, especially for their attention to detail. CoreAnimation makes it so easy to create useful and eye-pleasing effects. Quicksand aims at providing a similar experience for users on the web.
Feb 11
Best source code comments
I have nothing to say. Just read it. And then laugh.
Grafico graphing library version 0.9
I already know of an application that I could add this in. Okay, make that two applications. That it, once a jQuery version comes along…
Feb 9
What if William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?
I’m a massive fan of The Big Labowski. And let’s face it, who isn’t? I’m reading this when I have a spare few minutes. “You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish. These fucking amateurs…”
Feb 8
Google’s superbowl advert: Parisian Love
When you think about it, it’s kinda hard for Google to create an effective advert about searching. However, they managed to pull it off. It’s been on YouTube for a while but was also played on the Superbowl commercial. Apparently.
jQuery plugin: Flip
” What is Flip? Flip is a jQuery plugin that will flip easily your elements in four directions. Try it “
Feb 5
jQuery plugin: Masonry
“Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.”
Feb 3
America is broke, and needs its old friends
“Barack Obama’s $3.8tn budget is a vastly complex affair. But one fact stands out plainly: in layman’s terms, America is broke. The federal government’s outgoings will exceed income by about $1.6tn this year; over the next 10 years combined, the predicted gap is $8.5tn.”
Nexus One finally adds Multitouch support
“Much more significantly, though, they’ve capitulated and enabled multitouch in Browser, Gallery, and Maps — great news and a big win for the Android community at large.”
Feb 2
Chrome OS Touch? Coming soon?
I would rather have Mac OS X on a iPad—I doubt we’ll see that in the next year or two, but I can wish. However, the Chromium devs have a quick demonstration of what they would like to see, and it’s very interesting.
Logos are dead
“They are a hangover from old-school thinking about branding. There is no desire by the public for a new logo. They are simply an old-fashioned approach to differentiating products or services [..] symbols invented to accompany brand names are a waste of time, money and effort.”
Feb 1
Google phases out support for IE6
“Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine. The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work “properly” with the browser.”
Fun with CSS3
It’s pretty cool the effects you can do with CSS3, no doubt. Even if IE doesn’t have a clue what you’re trying to achieve. This page tries to have some fun with the border radius propery.
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Obligatory links
Create simple UML diagrams on-the-fly
yUML is an online tool for creating and publishing simple UML diagrams. It’s makes it really easy for you to: Embed UML diagrams in blogs, emails and wikis, Post UML diagrams in forums and blog comments, Use directly within your web based bug tracking tool and Copy and paste UML diagrams into MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations.
Javascript Tidy
One thing I often need to do is to tidy javascript from it’s packed state. Often to fix the developers bugs, add new features or to modify it slightly. I give you, the Javascript Tidy, a tool I couldn’t live without.
jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)
A pretty awesome slider. Haven’t tried it out yet but the new version seems pretty easy to skin, so you can style it however-the-hell you want (note: click the ‘jQuery Slider update’ link).