Histogrem: The Histogram Font
5 weeks ago by TomC
"Histogrem lets you make histograms right inside a text file."
fonts
charts
information_visualisation
typography
sparklines
text
5 weeks ago by TomC
Share JS
10 weeks ago by TomC
Etherpad / Wave style collaborative editing lib for node.js/browsers.
nodejs
algorithms
JavaScript
text
editing
writing
diff
git
collaboration
googlewave
etherpad
10 weeks ago by TomC
Issue 761 - v8 - Incorrect UTF-8 encoding/decoding for non-BMP characters in String related functions - V8 JavaScript Engine - Google Project Hosting
february 2012 by TomC
V8 bug tracking thread following some of the same unicode/js issues I've been investigating.
v8
chrome
nodejs
javascript
programming
unicode
text
february 2012 by TomC
isaacs's gist: 1850768 — Gist
february 2012 by TomC
Gist driven side-debate (also on Twitter) with Isaac of Node and Brendan of Javascript, about unicode escaping/encoding issues and the prospect of full VM-level support (fixing String.length, substring etc)
brendaneich
isaacschlueter
nodejs
javascript
unicode
github
gist
text
encoding
escaping
programming
code
february 2012 by TomC
New full Unicode for ES6 idea
february 2012 by TomC
Brendan Eich's followup to last week's debate with the node.js community about full unicode support in Javascript.
javascript
nodejs
brendaneich
ecmascript
standards
es6
programming
text
unicode
february 2012 by TomC
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software
february 2012 by TomC
The most commonly recommended (and decent) intro to unicode for programmers.
unicode
programming
code
encoding
utf8
utf16
text
joelspolsky
articles
february 2012 by TomC
Emoji for PHP
february 2012 by TomC
Cal's big table of emoji code-points and equivalencies for various different implementations, where available.
emoji
unicode
iamcal
php
text
february 2012 by TomC
JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? · Mathias Bynens
february 2012 by TomC
Good explanation of surrogate pair encoding/escaping in UTF-16.
unicode
javascript
text
programming
code
utf16
ucs2
february 2012 by TomC
Web Symbols typeface
november 2011 by TomC
Interesting character mappings. Would prefer unicode symbols where they exist, but this has some things that hopefully will never be universal human concepts, like Facebook :)
icons
fonts
symbols
design
text
ui
november 2011 by TomC
electric beach » Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part IV
april 2010 by TomC
Text on a path for Silverlight, only via Blend.
silverlight
text
path
typography
layout
april 2010 by TomC
White.Steve.Blog : Kerning and animating text glyphs
october 2009 by TomC
Advanced TextBlock manipulation in Silverlight - looks promising.
silverlight
text
code
october 2009 by TomC
http://readefine.anirudhsasikumar.net/
september 2009 by TomC
Really nice demo of the new Flash text layout stuff. Lovely looking type, nice to read.
rss
atom
flash
text
typography
news
september 2009 by TomC
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
september 2009 by TomC
Lovely animated visualization showing the editing process between six editions of Darwin's Origin of Species.
processing.org
benfry
text
words
language
darwin
evolution
editing
writing
books
september 2009 by TomC
Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' : Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!
september 2009 by TomC
Text halo/stroke/outline in silverlight also means repeating the text. The only way to match text rendering is to render text, apparently.
silverlight
text
design
typography
september 2009 by TomC
Canvas Text Functions
august 2009 by TomC
"What could have been the holy grail of javascript to user communication was turned into a mime by the omission of text. ... Fortunately the 1960s has come to the rescue."
html
canvas
text
javascript
libraries
1960s
august 2009 by TomC
txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
june 2009 by TomC
Click-through pattern matching to code generation. Haven't tried this with a real world example yet, but it looks like it's *the thing*.
regularexpressions
text
programming
code
algorithms
tools
software
june 2009 by TomC
Line endings produced by Flash IDE CS3/4, appear to be Mac specific / Repo issues / Discussion Area - GitHub Support
june 2009 by TomC
Gah, it seems like git's diff routines choke on files that have been touched by Flash. Pre-commit hooks to reject bad linebreaks seem like the only sane solution.
mac
git
diff
linebreaks
text
github
argh
june 2009 by TomC
Understanding Bidirectional (BIDI) Text in Unicode
march 2009 by TomC
Nice article from Cal Henderson that moves us on a bit further past "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)". Which is good, because there are some folks out there who still think that ASCII will do.
unicode
rtl
calhenderson
arabic
web
html
php
languages
text
algorithms
programming
bidirectional
bidi
march 2009 by TomC
Whoosh
february 2009 by TomC
Pure python search index. (via swillison)
python
search
indexing
libraries
code
programming
text
february 2009 by TomC
StreamGraphs Featured in Montreal Gazette Ad
october 2008 by TomC
Nice to see this technique getting exposure in the mainstream press (Lee Byron for NYT, now Jeff Clark for Montreal Gazette).
montreal
gazette
streamgraphs
politics
speech
text
words
language
charts
information_visualisation
october 2008 by TomC
Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who's the Windbag?
october 2008 by TomC
The Venn diagrams for contributions of nouns/verbs to the debate really illustrate the tone of the two campaigns. Top notch analysis.
usa
politics
mccain
obama
debate
words
language
information_visualisation
word_clouds
analysis
text
october 2008 by TomC
The Algorithmist - degrafa-text-along-a-spline
september 2008 by TomC
I haven't been tempted by Degrafa yet, so I'm pleased to hear this will be accessible to actionscript too.
as3
text
flash
curves
paths
typography
graphics
code
degrafa
flex
comment
september 2008 by TomC
zupko.info » Blog Archive » Text in Papervision3D - Clearing things up
august 2008 by TomC
3D text still looks horrible IMHO. The video for Alex Gopher's 'The Child' is the only time I've seen it done well.
3d
text
flash
papervision3d
august 2008 by TomC
TheLadders.com Developer Blog: Introducing Javascript full-text search
august 2008 by TomC
Client-side search in javascript. Interested in more of these, if you know of any good ones please tag them for:TomC!
search
javascript
text
august 2008 by TomC
ActionScript Projects in Flex Builder 2.0
june 2008 by TomC
An example of a pure actionscript 3 (no flex) autocomplete textfield.
flash
as3
code
text
words
autocomplete
june 2008 by TomC
Magic Lens
june 2008 by TomC
Nice interface for reading a transcription of a hand-written diary.
history
design
web
infterface
text
words
language
june 2008 by TomC
PottyMouth
april 2008 by TomC
"PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML."
xhtml
html
tools
python
security
text
april 2008 by TomC
Barack Obama - TextMap
february 2008 by TomC
Charts and graphs and maps oh my.
charts
graphs
maps
news
text
analysis
information_visualisation
nlp
february 2008 by TomC
Curved text
january 2008 by TomC
Projecting a bitmap of a textfield onto a surface. I wonder if this would be better/faster with multiple textfields and/or displacement filters?
flash
graphics
algorithms
typography
actionscript
text
curves
january 2008 by TomC
DIAGRAM
october 2007 by TomC
"As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries."
diagrams
art
design
information_visualisation
magazines
poetry
writing
words
text
illustration
images
october 2007 by TomC
hacks:typedinput [processinghacks.com]
august 2007 by TomC
"Here’s a way to accept typed input into your sketch, including line breaks, tabs and a blinking cursor."
processing.org
text
input
hacks
august 2007 by TomC
Anti-Grain Geometry - Texts Rasterization Exposures
july 2007 by TomC
Long discursive essay with copious examples of how text rendering could be better (more accurate AND more flexible) on both Windows and Mac.
algorithms
antialiasing
text
fonts
typography
programming
gui
interfaces
2d
graphics
july 2007 by TomC
dispatchEvent » Dynamic Text Wrapping in ActionScript 3
april 2007 by TomC
Details an algorithm, but not the code. I'm curious about the bugs.
text
wrapping
design
algorithms
typography
as3
actionscript
flash
programming
april 2007 by TomC
Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
march 2007 by TomC
manifesto for big text
typography
web
design
text
todo
march 2007 by TomC
mapping, augmented - chronotext.org
february 2007 by TomC
mapping flowing 3d text onto (flickr-sourced) architectural photographs, awesome (via toxi)
3d
text
typography
architecture
photography
flickr
mapping
february 2007 by TomC
Text Fingerprints
january 2007 by TomC
"Today I had an idea to try to take a fingerprint of a piece of text. The fingerprint would be unique for a given text, up to some arbitrary point which would depend on how the fingerprint was defined."
text
information_visualisation
web
fingerprints
identity
patterns
january 2007 by TomC
The State of the Union in Words: A Look at the 34,000 State of the Union Words Delivered of George W. Bush - New York Times
january 2007 by TomC
Characteristically thorough NYT visualisation, (via christi)
information_visualisation
words
politics
speaking
text
patterns
bush
usa
january 2007 by TomC
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
april 2006 by TomC
f-shaped heatmaps from eye tracking studies
web
reading
text
words
statistics
information_visualisation
attention
april 2006 by TomC
Processing 1.0 (BETA) - Whilst text in opengl doesnt work...
april 2006 by TomC
"it's an isometric character set, which just happens to be ordered in unicode"
processing.org
text
technotes
picks
fonts
april 2006 by TomC
Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS
february 2006 by TomC
Did somebody say something about the Takahashi method?
art
design
text
typography
music
jazz
flash
funny
presentations
poetry
takahashi
february 2006 by TomC
Caligraft
february 2006 by TomC
experimental cartography made with Processing
typography
processing.org
design
generative
graphics
text
february 2006 by TomC
Geomerative
january 2006 by TomC
generative graphics library for processing, including text path and polygon manipulation
processing.org
libraries
text
geometry
programming
january 2006 by TomC
Juice Analytics | Agile Analytics Weblog - My year in attention (and yours)
december 2005 by TomC
Following on from Jon Udell's year in tags, another Excel-powered visualisation screen cast masterclass from Juice. Great stuff.
excel
information_visualisation
tags
del.icio.us
2005
attention
text
december 2005 by TomC
SynchroEdit
october 2005 by TomC
open source, web-based subethaeditalike?
opensource
software
text
editor
web
collaboration
october 2005 by TomC
ORTHO-TYPE.IT
january 2005 by TomC
very clever fully 3d font concept (via processing.org)
design
font
typography
clever
3d
java
applets
text
processing.org
january 2005 by TomC
text on things - lego baseplate
november 2004 by TomC
best text on things ever :)
funny
lego
stuff
text
things
toys
november 2004 by TomC
fasttext (by Glen Murphy)
july 2004 by TomC
A class [for Processing] to allow users to dump 2d text to specified screen coordinates.
libraries
programming
text
processing.org
july 2004 by TomC
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