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
Cube
open source data vis for time series data
5 weeks ago
Map Tales
nice service that lets you tell stories narratively with maps.
7 weeks ago
→ The Social Graph is Neither
great piece from Maciej C on social networks.
12 weeks ago
Detection
interesting re server side browser sniffing
webdev  browsers 
september 2011
Understanding the Git Workflow
Nice description of the key revolutionary aspect of Git.
git 
august 2011
23 Drupal exercises
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
A new email client for Mac with a very nice UI... not yet available as at mid July 2011.
email  design 
july 2011
duolingo
TED talk re learning a language while you translate the web.
july 2011
DocumentCloud's VisualSearch.js
faceted search on the client side
javascript 
july 2011
CSS Lint
CSS beautifier/validator in the spirit of JS Lint.
css  webdev 
june 2011
Telehack: May the command line live forever
amazing online game/sim that recreates part of the Internet approx 1985-1990.
games  geek 
june 2011
Hashcloud
Jeremy Keith's comment.
webdev  javascript 
june 2011
Page Speed Online
browser based speed profiling tool from Google
webdev  tools 
may 2011
Website Security for Webmasters
nice rundown of the basics from Google.
security 
may 2011
StillAlive
remote monitoring service for websites... free for "personal" package (checking every 8 hours)
tools 
april 2011
Kaleidoscope — File comparison for Mac
Very nice looking diff tool for Mac.
mac  tools 
april 2011
Influx :: One-Pager
one page layout for small orgs
webdev  design 
april 2011
Git Cheatsheet
A very nice interactive cheatsheet for git - click on different components of the system to see relevant commands.
reference  git 
april 2011
Browser Wars (plural) | Infrequently Noted
Collection of demos of modern web tech: HTML (aka HTML5), CSS3, WebGL, etc etc.
html  css  browsers 
april 2011
A Practical Guide to Varnish
Varnish (http accelerator, i.e. caching system)
hosting 
april 2011
Think Quarterly
Google site updated quarterly, focusing on data
data 
march 2011
Papua New Guinea | pacific media centre
From the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland Uni of Technology, a handy PNG related news/comment feed.
png  news 
march 2011
HTML5 — Edition for Web Developers
The web-developer-friendly edition of the HTML5 spec.
html  reference  webdev 
march 2011
SendMoneyPacific
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 
march 2011
eBook Downloads from BOOKU.com
eBook specific store from Boomerang Books.
books  shopping 
march 2011
httpstat.us
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 
february 2011
Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets
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
Nice set of resources for @font-face fonts, from the renowned Zoe Gillenwater.
css  fonts 
january 2011
HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
A nice set of default html/css for building html5 sites.
html  javascript  css 
december 2010
CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
library to add CSS3 features to IE (Internet Explorer) versions 6 to 8.
css  browsers 
december 2010
html5 cross browser polyfills
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
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
Excellent price comparison site for Australian book buyers.
books  shopping 
december 2010
Blurb
Vanity publishing ("Make your own book. Make it great.")
books 
october 2010
HTML 5 innerShiv
A neat fix to allow html5 elements to be stylable in non-HTML5 browsers.
html  webdev  javascript 
august 2010
CSS-Tricks
Fix Inserted HTML5 Content with HTML5 innerShiv
css  webdesign  html 
august 2010
Accessible AJAX
Test cases for WAI-ARIA Accessibility Markup - AJAX live regions in particular.
webdev  accessibility 
august 2010
flot
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
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
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
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
How the effect of higher CO2 on plants may cause further amplification of warming (e.g. through reduced transpiration).
climate 
may 2010
JS Minifier
Online tool to minify Javascript.
javascript  webdev 
april 2010
2009 Nov/Dec - Warming Planet, Hot Research - ScienceWatch.com
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
Asual | jQuery Address - Deep linking for the masses
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 
april 2010
What should be reproducible? (More Grumbine Science)
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
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?
Quick overview of the evidence for a human fingerprint on climate change.
climate 
march 2010
State of the Climate (Publication - General)
Strong summary of the state of Australia's climate, from CSIRO and BOM.
climate 
march 2010
CSS3 Generator
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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