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The Development of Sequel
Great presentation about how Jeremy Evans (a top notch open source programmer and very decent guy) develops Sequel ORM
Ruby  Database  SQL  MySQL  Rails  Sinatra 
yesterday
The Bee Gees - Nights On Broadway - The Midnight Special 1975 - YouTube
RIP Robin Gibb.
from twitter
7 days ago
Presenteer.js
Cool "presentation" plugin, click the div and next div animates in.
jq 
11 days ago
jQuery Knob demo
Cool jQuery knobs (e.g., audio pots)
jQuery  JavaScript  PlugIns  Programming 
18 days ago
Apache OpenMeetings - Home
Open source replacement for Webex
Apache  Video  Phone  Social  Business 
4 weeks ago
BBC - GEL (Global Experience Language)
Essentially a BBC style guide, some good info on web/mobile patterns
html  CSS  JavaScript  Design  UI 
5 weeks ago
Starbucks Style Guide
Good example of web site style guide
htm 
5 weeks ago
How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Well regarded presentation on API design (from Rebecca's former colleague?)
Programming  http 
5 weeks ago
Shane Keaney - NYC designer
He's done a bunch of cool stuff, including Rekordit album doors (for Ikea Expedit) and is very strong in print
Design  Creative  Furnishings 
7 weeks ago
Multiple environments on Heroku
How to create staging/production/etc environments on Heroku (not just production)
Rails  Heroku  Deployment  Ruby  Programming 
7 weeks ago
vim-smartinput - Smarter punctuation pairs in Vim - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
Perhaps the best punctuation pairs autocomplete for Vim?
Vim  Unix  Linux  Software  Tricks 
8 weeks ago
Medigram: Login
Secure texting for docs, HIPAA compliant, YC backed
Medical  Entrepreneurial  Business  Phone  Mobile  Security 
8 weeks ago
iOS design: a case study
Really, really comprehensive and detailed guide to iOS design with great examples/resources
iPhone  iPad  Mobile  Design  Mac  CSS 
8 weeks ago
Style Tiles
Like interior designer's clippings, but for web site designers (to replace full page mockups)
Design  Entrepreneurial  Business  CSS  Typography 
8 weeks ago
copycopter/copycopter-server
Copycopter is an open source tool by Thoughtbot which allow non-technical users to edit copy (works well for headings and short pieces of text, not necessarily for longform)
Ruby  PlugIns  Rails  CMS 
10 weeks ago
livingsocial/rake-pipeline
Rake task version of Rails Asset Pipeline
Rake  Ruby  Sinatra  Deployment 
10 weeks ago
ruby - API Versioning for Rails Routes - Stack Overflow
Good answer from Ruby expert Ryan Biggs re how to cleanly version your APIs in Rails 3
API  Rails  Ruby 
10 weeks ago
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses - NYTimes.com
Kinda sad.
from twitter
10 weeks ago
The TSA Blog: Viral Video About Body Scanners
Guy posts video showing scanners don't work. TSA posts inarticulate response, but tacitly confirms he's right.
from twitter
11 weeks ago
DollarShaveClub.com - Our Blades Are F***ing Great - YouTube
RT : Why doesn't this have more views?
from twitter
11 weeks ago
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners « TSA Out of Our Pants!
TSA body scanners don't work well.
from twitter
11 weeks ago
Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
Comprehensive icon font
CSS  Design  Typography  Fonts 
11 weeks ago
gleeBox
Most recent pickup towards my goal of mouselessness -- Ten minutes in and so impressed. , great work.
from twitter
11 weeks ago
Docracy - Free Legal Documents
What it says!
Legal  Business  Creative 
12 weeks ago
How I built the Hacker News mobile web app - cheeaunblog
Super obsessive account of how developer replicated look/feel of iOS in a native web app
iPhone  Programming  CSS  Design  Mobile 
12 weeks ago
gmancasefile: TSA: Fail
Great anti TSA article from former FBI special agent.
Political  Social  Security 
12 weeks ago
Tyler WM - OSX Tiling Window Manager
So into Tyler WM, tiling window manager for OS X. A game changer.
from twitter
12 weeks ago
Save screenshots to Github Issues
What it says on the tin
Git  Debugging  Tricks  Programming 
february 2012
Tumult Hype
Very cool looking HTML animation app (Flash timeline replacement)
Animation  HTML  JavaScript  Design  Mac  Software 
february 2012
The League of Moveable Type
Open source, @font-face evangelists, good collection of said fonts
Fonts  Typography  CSS  Design 
february 2012
Overthrow: An overflow polyfill for responsive design | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
Overflow polyfill to allow scrolling on mobile devices
Mobile  CSS  JavaScript 
february 2012
Swipe JS - a lightweight mobile web slider
Emulates mobile swiping in jQuery
Mobile  CSS  jQuery  JavaScript  PlugIns 
february 2012
git-annex
Well regarded solution for keeping large binary files under git
Git  Deployment  Programming 
february 2012
Sequence.js - The jQuery Slider Plugin with Infinite Style
Very cool sliding navigation/carousel plugin, leverages CSS3 animations
jQuery  JavaScript  PlugIns 
february 2012
Mobile Payments | Barclays Pingit UK Mobile Payment - Barclays
Finance  Business  API  ECommerce 
february 2012
Designing a Secure REST (Web) API without OAuth
Supposedly, though, this solution ends up being quite like OAuth
API  Security  HTTP  Programming 
february 2012
6.912 Introduction to Copyright Law, January IAP 2006 | MIT Open Courseware
MIT Open Courseware class on copyright
Legal  Education  Creative  Business 
february 2012
LSHunter TV - Live Streaming Video / Watch Free Live Sport Streams - Basketball - Live Streaming Video
Streaming sports site
Sports  Entertainment  TV 
february 2012
Coding Horror: So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
Good writeup of minimum server configuration necessary to send out email programmatically, and have it be received by your users.
Email  Programming  Deployment  Security  Hosting 
february 2012
Lavish - Generate your own Bootstrap color scheme
Generate a Bootstrap color theme from an image
CSS  Design 
february 2012
Pssst... your Rails application has a secret to tell you - (37signals)
Method to leverage Rails to provide you with the sort of performance data that New Relic provides
Deployment  Performance  Programming  Rails  Ruby 
february 2012
5 Wits :: Adventure Awaits!
Real life Mission Impossible in Boston
Travel  Entertainment 
february 2012
Bert Appward's Field Guide to Web Applications
Great content about designing web apps (even if page turning nav is lame)
HTML  CSS  JavaScript  Prog 
february 2012
RG Labs
Reputation graph startup, focused on solving hiring issues.
Social  Entrepreneurial  Business  Jobs 
february 2012
Hyperarchy
Liquid democracy implementation by Pivotal Labs
Social  Political  Entrepreneurial 
february 2012
PieTrust
Reputation system (currently prototype only) by some smart guys(?)
Social  Entrepreneurial 
february 2012
Willkommen bei Liquid Democracy e.V. - adhocracy.de
Another liquid democracy implementation out of Germany
Political  Social 
february 2012
 LiquidFeedback – Interactive Democracy
German software implementing liquid democracy(?)
Political  Social 
february 2012
RESTful Web services: The basics
Article from IBM
REST  API  HTTP  Programming 
february 2012
restful url - How to create REST URLs without verbs? - Stack Overflow
Good tips on RESTful URI design (in Stack Overflow answer)
REST  HTTP  Programming 
february 2012
jQuery TextExt Plugin
Decent jQuery autocomplete (w/tags) plugin
jQuery  JavaScript  PlugIns 
february 2012
UIKit - Modern UI components for a modern web
Very clean/spare JS UI elements (e.g., dialog, modal)
JavaScript  CSS  Design 
february 2012
Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
Make buttons for Bootstrap!
CSS  Tricks  Design 
february 2012
Oni Labs: StratifiedJS Reference
Async JS, handles callbacks more elegantly. Not sure how robust this is.
JavaScript 
february 2012
Destroy All Software Screencasts
Really high level Ruby/TDD screencasts (also Vim ninja), costs $9/mo, but likely worth it later on.
Ruby  Education  Testing  Rails  Vim  Unix  Git 
january 2012
BenjaminKeen.com
Bookmarklet to see page render in different widths, e.g., testing responsive design
HTML  CSS  Pro 
january 2012
Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory
Nice showcase of the very few attractive Google fonts
Typography  Fonts  CSS  Design 
january 2012
Divvy :: Mizage - Focus on Efficiency
Divvy is a Mac window manager/resizer app, used by thoughtbot.
Productivity  Mac  Software 
january 2012
Build a Window Management App with Apptivate and AppleScript | Mac.AppStorm
Allows you to trigger scripts with key commands. Useful.
Productivity  Mac  Software  Tricks  from instapaper
january 2012
Google's Python Class - Google's Python Class - Google Code
Google teaches you python.
Python  Programming  Education 
january 2012
Bourbon Sass Mixins Library
Thoughtbot's SASS framework
CSS  SASS  Productivity  Design 
january 2012
Hues - Mac OS X Color Picker App | Giant Comet
Used by thoughtbot, good color picker app.
Mac  Software  Design  Productivity  Creative 
january 2012
Notational Velocity
Apparently useful note taking (and organizing) app for Mac
Productivity  Mac  Software 
january 2012
DeskShade Plus (Mac) - Download
Allows you to create a fake desktop to overlay your real desktop for cleanup purposes (e.g., you're making a screencast and don't want a cluttered desktop visible)
Mac  Software  Productivity  Creative 
january 2012
thoughtbot/laptop - GitHub
A development machine installation script from Thoughtbot (e.g., git, Homebrew, RVM, etc)
Programming  Productivity  Ruby  SQL  Git  Mac 
january 2012
Enyo JavaScript Application Framework
WebOS JS framework now open source.
JavaScript  Programming 
january 2012
Merton Hanks Funky Chicken Dance - YouTube
V.Davis b-boy stance on the camera podium so sweet, but fave NFL celeb goes to his 49er predecessor, Merton Hanks
from twitter
january 2012
gobhi/gbone.js - GitHub
A mobile-oriented version of Backbone.js, uses concept of animating panels.
JavaScript  Backbone  Mobile  jQuery 
january 2012
maccman/gfx - GitHub
CSS3 animation library, good for hardware accelerated animations (esp on mobile devices)
CSS  JavaScript  jQuery 
january 2012
HTML5 Please
Guide to which HTML5 features are safe to use cross-browser.
HTML  CSS  JavaScript  from instapaper
january 2012
NounProject
Aiming to be canonical repository of universal vector icons
Design  CSS  Creative  from instapaper
january 2012
Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Nice Coppola quote reiterating that artists have only been making money for the last hundred years.
Legal  Creative  Social 
january 2012
Traditional Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for Software Development | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Tailored for SVN shops (e.g., Vibrant).
Programming  SVN  Deployment 
january 2012
equity - Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? - OnStartups - Stack Exchange
Great answer as to how to split equity in a startup, by Joel Spoelsky
Business  Creative  Legal 
january 2012
mozilla/playdoh - GitHub
Playdoh is a Django-based CMS that Mozilla created and uses as the base of its sites.
Django  Python  Software  CMS 
january 2012
Home | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company
Cloud hosting, site performance accelerator, CDN sorta
Hosting  Deployment  Security 
january 2012
The Trello Tech Stack - Fog Creek Blog
Good example of cutting-edge, best-practices web app tech stack
Programming  JavaScript  Node.js  HTML 
january 2012
Mon7/mon7-bootstrap - GitHub
Apparently very 'best-practices' Sinatra bootstrap from Ruby consultants in Sweden
Ruby  Sinatra  Productivity 
january 2012
Myron Marston » Open Source
Apparently very skilled Ruby developer, member of RSpec core team, into TDD
Ruby  Sinatra  Rails  Programming  Testing 
january 2012
Myron Marston » Why Sinatra's Halt is Awesome
Nice explanation of how to use 'halt' in a Sinatra API, making it more elegant.
Ruby  Sinatra  API 
january 2012
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