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Links for 2009-07-09 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-10T00:00:00-07:00

Top 5 Technology Selection Pitfalls -- CMS Watch
Replace document.write using MooTools
"Maybe you want to use AJAX to load a script that requires the use of document.write. But after teh page has loaded document.write tends to destroy the universe without even asking first! Solution: Replace document.write!"
Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
"A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools."
ChannelAdvisor
Scene7 competitor

Links for 2009-07-08 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-09T00:00:00-07:00

SoundCloud Threatens MySpace as Music Destination for Twitter Era
Walls Come Tumbling Down presentation slides and transcript | For A Beautiful Web
Excellent overview of agile (small-a) process from Malarkey
Hiding data, content and technology in real world games
"We’ve combined some fun things, a treasure hunt / i-spy game which you play using your mobile, which generates a list of everything you’ve seen at an event (in an end of school holiday essay style), with geotagging and analytics. Your mobile number is the tracking cookie. We call the game And I Saw...”
Build Your Own URL Shortening Service - ronny.haryan.to
jacobian's django-shorturls at master - GitHub
"A URL shortening app for Django."
New CSS Sticky Footer - 2009
"Working in all major browsers, including Google Chrome!. It works with floated 2-column layouts and we don't get overlap in resized browser windows unlike older solutions you find when you Google sticky footer. And you don't need an empty push div."
qlcolorcode - Google Code
"The Quick Look plugin that handles source code in Leopard is, well, boring. We developers expect syntax highlighting these days! Thanks to WebKit, Highlight, and the foresight of the Quick Look API designers, however, this is easy to achieve. Just drop this plugin into /Library/QuickLook or ~/Library/QuickLook and bask in the glow of the beautiful syntax highlighting!"
The Security Implications of URL Shortening Services - Unweary
When I Enter the Office, the Imperial March Plays — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
Wish more people did stuff like this.
jQTouch
"A jQuery plugin with native animations, auto list navigation, and default application styles for Mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre."
Pachube :: blog: Pachube2SketchUp: realtime sensor data in SketchUp
"With this tool, you are able to import both realtime and historic Pachube data (i.e. sensor and environment data) into popular 3D CAD package Google SketchUp. The incoming data can be used to generate or modulate a 3D model of a building or environment, and enables sophisticated design-decisions that are based on actual (and not simulated) sensor and environment data. Possible uses include designing interactive façades, undertaking post-occupancy evaluation (which is where you evaluate how well the design performs) and sensor-based form generation." In love.
Disruption versus Usability: has UXD become TOO good? « BBH Labs
Missing. The. Point.

Links for 2009-07-07 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-08T00:00:00-07:00

area/code
"Area/Code takes advantage of today's environment of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment."
Adactio: Journal—Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon
Jeremy Keith's notes from Jared Spool's talk at An Event Apart Boston.
Web-Connected Light Sensors With Pachube & Arduino
pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet
"A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."
Adactio: Journal—Building Reprieve
"I persevered, I obediently followed the tutorial, and I discovered all the things that make Django such a powerful framework; the excellent separation of concerns, the superb templating system, the lack of so-called front-end “helpers” that cripple other server-side frameworks. I think Gareth was really onto something when he noticed the way that the web standards world appears to be choosing Django."
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
"A simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading."
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » extra:extra=extra
"To date, we’ve only had machine tags “extras” available for upcoming:event= and lastfm:event= tags but starting today we’re adding support for three new projects: Dopplr, Open Plaques and the Open Library."
adaptive path » blog » Brandon Schauer » use of concept: the best proof of concept
"Over the past 2 months the city government, in cooperation with business groups and non-profits, has turned a corner of one of the busiest intersections in San Francisco into a public plaza. The 17th Street Plaza project took 72-hours to implement, and is carefully called a “reversible trial.” Like the phrase “reversible pilot”.
Prowl
"A Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (or even Windows! see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect." Beautiful.

Links for 2009-07-06 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-07T00:00:00-07:00

Jared Spool: Revealing Design Treasures From The Amazon
Spool's excellent talk on Amazon from An Event Apart Boston.

Links for 2009-07-05 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-06T00:00:00-07:00

Gizmodo - How to Get Emoji iPhone Emoticons For Free Without Jailbreaking - Iphone emoji free
"[If you] import a specially formatted vcard.vcf address book file with the proper Emojis already inside, you'll be able to type out Emojis a chunk at a time, and delete the ones you don't want. It's a gimpy way of doing it, but it's free."

Links for 2009-07-04 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-05T00:00:00-07:00

Are you doing agile or are you doing waterfall with some agile practices? at Making good software
"You can be doing agile without performing any of the current recommended practices and you can perform all the recommended practices and still not be agile. Lots of teams believe they are practicing agile just because they are doing standups or TDD… That’s like pretending to be a musician because you have the best instrument."
Independents Day 2009 - ID:09 - A Celebration Of Independent Music
Festival celebrating independent music (labels) in the UK. Gigs at the ICA etc.
Topless Robot - Bonus! Rob's Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s!
"Q: Are there honestly 46 new Transformers in the movie?" "A: I have no fucking clue."
SEOmoz | SEO Best Practices: SEOmoz's New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data
NETLab Toolkit - NETLab
"Free set of software tools that enable designers to easily "sketch in hardware". With no programming at all and working in the familiar environment of Flash, designers can hook up a physical sensor (e.g. a knob) and immediately get that knob to control a motor or a video projection. The toolkit works with a wide range of sensors, wireless sensors, input from the Wii Remote, controls motors and LEDs, communicates with MIDI devices, controls sound, graphics, and video in Flash, and communicates with DMX computer controlled lighting equipment, all with a simple drag-and-drop interface (of course, programming hooks are provided as well)."
The Prototype Experience
The Prototype Experience : the new Facebook Connect Interactive Experience for the new game by Activision: Prototype | Down the Rabbit Hole

Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]

2009-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

metaloca london (localondon) on Twitter
"Exhibitions, events and other interesting things in London."
Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit
That's a matter of opinion. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
io9 - Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Best film review of the year.
camen design · Video for Everybody!
Complicated but clever non-JS video object-fallback method.
Design management – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
"For those who have no control over which clients and projects come to them, there is still hope, because everyone on the web (not just professional designers and developers) has the ability to produce meaningful content, and every designer and developer additionally has the power to create products and services. As your own client, working alone, or with a carefully hand-picked team, you can produce great things".
Kalle Hagman
Portfolio built with Google Maps controls.
Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule
"Twice a month, enjoy an email with your [Flickr] photos from a year ago".
In the Woods - 20 Excellent Coda Tips
LABjs (Loading And Blocking JavaScript)
"It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the speed of page load by allowing scripts to load in parallel. The thing it does slightly differently than most others like it is it allows you to "block", which is to say, load one or more scripts in parallel, then wait for them to finish, before going on to something else, like loading more scripts."
AutoStitch iPhone
"Automatic Image Stitching for the iPhone"
Gary vs Cannes - crackunit.com
"I should have known better than to get drawn into a conversation about awards. It’s a trap. It’s a mugs’ game. But awards are addictive. It’s the closest most of us get to a pat on the head from mum and dad. Teacher’s not handing out gold stars any more. But the feeling of acceptance and recognition that creative people feel from awards isn’t far off. It’s hard to ignore their shiny allure. And of course we crow about them loudly when we win. But we know that’s wrong. It should all be about the satisfaction that we get from making brilliant things. And the impact they have on real people. And clients."

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2006-11-01T20:36:00Z

Just del.icio.us and flickr for now…