What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
Fascinating article on how a focus on equality and community, rather than competition and market forces, produces amazing results for the education system in Finland.
4 weeks ago
Understanding the Git Workflow
august 2011
Nice description of the key revolutionary aspect of Git.
git
august 2011
23 Drupal exercises
july 2011
Interesting take on how to do beginner tutorials - as a series of emailed requests for site changes from a fictitious boss.
Drupal
july 2011
Persona || Your New Email Client
july 2011
A new email client for Mac with a very nice UI... not yet available as at mid July 2011.
email
design
july 2011
Telehack: May the command line live forever
june 2011
amazing online game/sim that recreates part of the Internet approx 1985-1990.
games
geek
june 2011
StillAlive
april 2011
remote monitoring service for websites... free for "personal" package (checking every 8 hours)
tools
april 2011
Git Cheatsheet
april 2011
A very nice interactive cheatsheet for git - click on different components of the system to see relevant commands.
reference
git
april 2011
Sharing advice from our London site clinic
april 2011
Google tips on good practice re SEO
webdev
seo
april 2011
Browser Wars (plural) | Infrequently Noted
april 2011
Collection of demos of modern web tech: HTML (aka HTML5), CSS3, WebGL, etc etc.
html
css
browsers
april 2011
Papua New Guinea | pacific media centre
march 2011
From the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland Uni of Technology, a handy PNG related news/comment feed.
png
news
march 2011
DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language - Google Code
march 2011
Promising framework for data publishing.
open-data
xml
march 2011
HTML5 — Edition for Web Developers
march 2011
The web-developer-friendly edition of the HTML5 spec.
html
reference
webdev
march 2011
Lock Your Mac In A Keystroke (Without Putting It To Sleep) | Lifehacker Australia
march 2011
how to lock a Mac without putting it to sleep.
mac
march 2011
SendMoneyPacific
march 2011
www.sendmoneypacific.org has been created through the joint Australian and New Zealand Governments' led initiative 'Reducing the Cost of Remittances to the Pacific'.
The website provides important information on the many choices migrants living in Australia and New Zealand have when sending money back to their families and friends in the South Pacific island nations.
png
tools
finances
The website provides important information on the many choices migrants living in Australia and New Zealand have when sending money back to their families and friends in the South Pacific island nations.
march 2011
httpstat.us
february 2011
This is a super simple service for generating different HTTP response codes for HTTP requests.
It's useful for testing how your own scripts deal with varying responses.
Just add the status code you want to the URL, like this: httpstat.us/200
webdev
It's useful for testing how your own scripts deal with varying responses.
Just add the status code you want to the URL, like this: httpstat.us/200
february 2011
Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets
january 2011
How default CSS (user agent style sheets) have evolved from IE6 to IE9.
css
browsers
january 2011
Where to Find Fonts that Allow @font-face Embedding
january 2011
Nice set of resources for @font-face fonts, from the renowned Zoe Gillenwater.
css
fonts
january 2011
HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today
december 2010
html5 information and discussion.
html
reference
webdesign
december 2010
HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
december 2010
A nice set of default html/css for building html5 sites.
html
javascript
css
december 2010
Shopbot - Compare Prices - Australia - Price Comparison - Comparison Shopping
december 2010
Australian price comparison portal.
shopping
december 2010
CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
december 2010
library to add CSS3 features to IE (Internet Explorer) versions 6 to 8.
css
browsers
december 2010
html5 cross browser polyfills
december 2010
List of html5 related tools - mainly js libraries - that help for detection and addition of html5 features.
browsers
css
javascript
html
december 2010
Revised Font Stack | A Way Back
december 2010
A much improved set of CSS font stacks reflecting current OS font availability.
css
fonts
december 2010
Booko: Compare book & DVD prices in Australia with Booko
december 2010
Excellent price comparison site for Australian book buyers.
books
shopping
december 2010
HTML 5 innerShiv
august 2010
A neat fix to allow html5 elements to be stylable in non-HTML5 browsers.
html
webdev
javascript
august 2010
Juicy Studio: WAI-ARIA Live Regions
august 2010
Overview of WAI-ARIA live regions
accessibility
webdev
august 2010
Accessible AJAX
august 2010
Test cases for WAI-ARIA Accessibility Markup - AJAX live regions in particular.
webdev
accessibility
august 2010
flot
august 2010
Javascript lib for plotting data; works in IE as well as modern browsers.
javascript
graphics
august 2010
Opinion polls underestimate Americans' concern about the environment, study finds
june 2010
How the phrasing of survey questions has a huge effect on people's reported concern over the priority of environment/climate issues.
climate
june 2010
The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
may 2010
A comic telling the sordid tale of Andrew Wakefield's corrupt and fraudulent claims linking autism with MMR vaccine.
science
may 2010
Contrast-A: Find Accessible Color Combinations
may 2010
WCAG 2.0 colour contrast checker: nicely designed online tool.
graphics
webdev
may 2010
Carbon dioxide's effects on plants increase global warming, study finds
may 2010
How the effect of higher CO2 on plants may cause further amplification of warming (e.g. through reduced transpiration).
climate
may 2010
2009 Nov/Dec - Warming Planet, Hot Research - ScienceWatch.com
april 2010
List of the most cited papers (by institution, author, and journal) in climate science in the decade to 2009. Australian notables: CSIRO is #17 institution, individuals are at #3, #8, and #18.
climate
april 2010
Web Designer's Checklist, Web Designers' Browser Support Checklist : FindMeByIP : what browser am I using, how modern is my web browser, and what's my IP address?
april 2010
Browser support for various HTML5 and CSS3 technologies, as at April 2010.
browsers
css
webdev
april 2010
Asual | jQuery Address - Deep linking for the masses
april 2010
The jQuery Address plugin provides powerful deep linking capabilities and allows the creation of unique virtual addresses that can point to a website section or an application state. It enables a number of important capabilities including:
* Bookmarking in a browser or social website
* Sending links via email or instant messenger
* Finding specific content using the major search engines
* Utilizing browser history and reload buttons
javascript
webdev
* Bookmarking in a browser or social website
* Sending links via email or instant messenger
* Finding specific content using the major search engines
* Utilizing browser history and reload buttons
april 2010
What should be reproducible? (More Grumbine Science)
march 2010
Good piece from Robert Grumbine discussing the limits and problems with the idea that all science should be reproducable by anyone.
climate
march 2010
Greenhouse effect revisited… « Climate Change
march 2010
Fairly technical overview of the physics of the greenhouse effect, from Chris Colose.
climate
march 2010
Short Sharp Science: Which climate changes can be blamed on humans?
march 2010
Quick overview of the evidence for a human fingerprint on climate change.
climate
march 2010
State of the Climate (Publication - General)
march 2010
Strong summary of the state of Australia's climate, from CSIRO and BOM.
climate
march 2010
CSS3 Generator
march 2010
Tool to generate CSS3 rules for various CSS3 features such as box-shadow, border-radius, etc etc.
css
webdesign
march 2010
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