* I like the way the font size is adapted to the height of the window; i like contextual typography.
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nice website
August 01, 2008Tags: context, javascript, nice, resize | Comments (2)
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links for 2008-06-25
June 24, 2008
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SoundManager 2 lets web developers load, play and control sounds via Javascript. SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform
Tags: art, book, bookshop, design, javascript, london, shoreditch, sound, texttospeech | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-06-20
June 19, 2008
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js to embed flash using the DOM
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An introduction to Europolis (a backwards portrait of the artist as a 12-point system) - published in DOT DOT DOT 9
Tags: art, auction, debug, dotdotdot, dotdotdot9, flash, geometry, javascript, market, mathematics, pdf, selling, validation, webdev | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-06-04
June 04, 2008
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37signals: When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.
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a bog for a fascination for the Ampersand glyph, scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word “et.”
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system wide use of javascript via OSA; replacing Applescript - sounds good. it would be nice to even plug jQuery on top of that
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multidimensionnal array sorting in one go. look at the script, post #4
Tags: ampersand, applescript, array, css, culture, design, development, graphic, graphicdesign, html, javascript, mac, methodology, multidimensionnal, paper, php, process, punctuation, sort, typography, webdesign | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-05-29
May 29, 2008-
An interview of Christopher Burke; the discussion opens with a consideration of the work of Paul Renner, and especially his typeface Futura, then moves on to Christopher Burke’s own work as a type designer.
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the foundry retraced the original alternate characters of the Renner’s early sketches for the Futura.
Tags: api, design, dev, firebug, futura, history, javascript, log, typography | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-04-17
April 17, 2008-
The problem caused by scripts is that they block parallel downloads. The HTTP/1.1 specification suggests that browsers download no more than two components in parallel per hostname. If you serve your images from multiple hostnames, you can get more than t
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The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 6 categories. Filter rules by category: content, server, cookie, css, javascript, mobile, all
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Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street’s rarefied realms.
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, business, caching, coding, development, economy, finance, hedge_fund, javascript, optimisation, performance, tuning, web, webdev | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-04-10
April 10, 2008-
from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.
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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.
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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered
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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.
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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, algorithms, animation, archive, art, ascii, book, books, character, code, culture, data, design, encoding, france, gallery, images, inerface, javascript, language, literature, mathematics, newyork, philosophy, pipe, punctuation, research, resource, shell, size, store, structure, text, theory, thumbnails, typography, uk, unicode, unix, utf8, writing, zoom | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-03-11
March 11, 2008-
i like one liners; i like simplicity; i like twitter - what else? might be nice to combine it with the todo.txt
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nice combination of services: tumble + delicious as an automated rebloging system
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nice tool for visualising twitter ativity - i like the analogy to seismic activities
Tags: api, blog, code, coding, commandline, hack, javascript, jQuery, mashup, terminal, time, timeline, twitter, txt, visualisation, web, webdev, webtools, _theofs | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-03-08
March 08, 2008-
Pineapples contains Bromelain and have had a long tradition as a medicinal plant among the natives of South and Central America. (Eating the fruit isn’t a solution though :)
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Marmite has a great deal of Vitamin B complex - which means it contains all the B vitamins.
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Very nice dynamic layout, using javascript to fuidify the columns when resizing the page.
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todo.sh use plain text: Since it’s been around since the dawn of computing, it’s safe to say it’s completely future-proof
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show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop or even in front of all windows.
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Bash outputs
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, apple, automation, background, collection, commandline, desktop, discussion, fluid, food, gallery, gtd, GUI, hack, health, image, interface, javascript, layout, lifehack, linux, organization, pipe, pipes, process, productivity, reference, shell, system, terminal, txt, unix, wound | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-26
February 26, 2008-
a very nice color picker to be integrated wherever is needed, just adding a form/input and hop!
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use javascript, png and css to simulate gradients in a css compliant manner - nice!
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a nice use of the mdfind command to export xml out of searches… big potential there, i think: SpotLight to Atom (rss) - it sounds a bit like the electronest.com website build on top of Apache very standard features
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dictionnary of AppleScript for the Microsoft Word application
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the wikipedia page for AppleScript, giving informations about one of the most powerful resource in an Apple computer: it’s automation ability(tags: applescript osx)
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using the Finder as development and production environment; remembered me a bunch of ideas we explored with Andreas Schneider about using the standard tools of a computer system to generate presentations, website, weblog, etc.
Tags: agregation, applescript, atom, automation, code, color, colorpicker, css, development, filesystem, finder, gradient, IDE, javascript, jQuery, osx, plugin, reference, RSS, spotlight, syndication, system, terminal, word, workflow, xml, _playbill | Comments (0)
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