Set up "Launching Soon" page in minutes. Collect interest, increase sharing and build your audience.

A Programming Primer for Counting and Other Unconventional Tasks

A Learn Code The Hard Way Book

A scalable real-time backend for your web app
Build apps really fast without the hassle of managing servers

CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript & Haml files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It supports Compass. It even optimizes jpeg & png images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects. And that’s just the first paragraph.

Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs.

Photo: If “Old Boy” or “Enter the Void” are your types of movies, then you need to watch “Cold Fish.” Shion...

The spiritual successor to Less Framework

Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people's checkin patterns at places across the city, we create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it.

BBYIDX is a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Scrabble Stuff is a simple scrabble word search tool built with PHP, MySQL, and jQuery. Use the basic search function to search for words you can make with provided letter tiles. The sequence search page lets you search for words using given tiles as well as enter static characters.

Fit Mix is designed to inspire and motivate you at every step of your workout. It features three tracks that are easy to navigate. The arrangement is made to get you moving on the dance floor, elliptical or at any fitness class.

Privly is a proof-of-concept for a new standard of private sharing. It is the only way to maintain control of your data on the social web.

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Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.

The next generation of web designers
and developers get their start here.
apprentice.io provides designers and developers with a top-notch apprenticeship
and connects them with leading employers.

Flexible site generator. Feature highlights include:

Jade templates
Page metadata
Integrated Underscore provides the _ function in your templates
Markdown support
Command line interface
Built-in server

D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, maximizes dev/prod parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.
Developers no longer need to worry about setting up complicated infrastructure components. Projects with conflicting dependencies can each get their own sandbox -- keeping a developer's workstation free of the hacks needed for multiple versions of software to coexist.

New technologies are putting our lives, our communities, and our world at the tips of our fingers. At Dwolla, we're using those same ideas to build a new payment experience that's powered by you.

Focus on the data, not the database. Induction is a new kind of tool designed for understanding and communicating relationships in data. Explore rows and columns, query to get exactly what you want, and visualize that data in powerful ways.

We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.

psd.js is a general purpose file parser for PSD files created in Photoshop. Given a PSD file, it can parse out information such as image size and color modes, image resources, layer info, image contents, etc.

We're creating a format for describing turntablism, as well as tools for recording, analyzing, sharing, and even recreating scratch performances with giant robot arms. We want to do for turntablism what Graffiti Markup Language has done for tagging.

It has been a banner year for the Africa technology scene as the world begins to turn to the continent – theEconomist Africa rising cover story article was for many, a big validation in the future opportunities as well as challenges for Africa. The best follow up post worth reading is by Professor Juma of the Harvard Kennedy School in the UK Guardian blog, both recognize the importance of the technology scene in supporting Africa’s prosperity.

Unify was built to improve the development efficiency of apps for smartphones. Currently it supports smartphones based on the platforms iOS, Android and WebOS. There is support for desktop operating systems like Windows or Mac OS as well.

gury (pronounced "jury") is a JavaScript library designed to aid in the creation of HTML5/Canvas applications by providing an easy-to-use chain based interface.

With gury you can create a canvas tag, resize and style it, add renderable objects, animate those objects, and place it anywhere on the page in a single chained expression.

LimeJS is a HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and
desktop browsers.

QuirksMode.org is the prime source for browser compatibility information on the Internet.

lets users create, share and listen to mixtapes

Simple version control for designers
Every file, every version, securely backed up while you and your team work.

I'm at Comerica Park w/ @socialsheek

oh man, RIP Dan Sicko, #Detroit #techno evangelist/historian and author of "Techno Rebels"

RT @phat_controller: Google launches first African voice recognition technology: Zulu & Afrikaans #ict4d #tech #africa

RT @rmack: Are you a technologist from a developing country? Get a fellowship & help shape the Net's future @ IETF:

Berlin v London Chess Boxing match tomorrow -- anyone going?

Need a side of bacon on your web site. Just put it at the end of http://bacolicio.us/

Photo: Yes! Just purchased my copy of The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry. Has anyone seen...

Photo: Yes! Just purchased my copy of The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry. Has anyone seen...

ST2011 is a killer negative perception that infects those with low knowledge, making them so scared they discriminate against people who are different. Stigma is now targeting people living with HIV. Stigmatizaiton of HIV positive individuals scares everybody and prevents us from seeking information, treatment, counseling, and from leading healthy and productive lives. HIV-related stigma, like racism, homophobia, discrimination against women or any type of discriminatory attitude, has no place in the UN workplace.

reading "Responsive Web Design" by @beep and @abookapart -- good stuff

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RT @geoplace: TNW on why Nairobi is exploding as the tech hub of East Africa via @JessicaColaco

As dozens of new technology trends and methods touch marketing and advertising daily, CaT: Creativity and Technology stands out as a tightly-edited gathering of the best minds in the field for a discussion of furthering creativity through technology. The event consists of presentations, discussions and A-list creative case studies, a gallery where tech suppliers will showcase their products in the context of the work that they've enabled and breakout rooms where tech suppliers can interact personally with creatives and provide hands on learning.

old model == art director+copywriter (good for print). RT @nicoleljohnson: #createtech The changing team model:

is a command-line drum machine. Feed it a song notated in YAML, and it will produce a precision-milled Wave file of impeccable timing and feel.

Dynamic infographic charting daily mood of world via newspaper headlines.

Designing for iOS4 devices is totally different from designing for the web. Sarah Parmenter explains how to create the perfect user interface for your app

A Non-Profit Jazz Label With a Mission.
Devoted to Preserving Jazz and Discovering the Rising Stars of Tomorrow.
Resonance Records is a division of the Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created to discover the next jazz stars - passionate, brilliant musicians from around the world. We assist and support them through recording, performance opportunities and distribution of their art. Every Resonance CD and DVD is produced without compromise, to create and preserve our artists' jazz legacy.

Unfortunate name....but, Laker is a compendium of files, frameworks, styles and tips for designing digital publications in HTML5.

Microjs.com helps you discover the most compact-but-powerful microframeworks, and makes it easy for you to pick one that’ll work for you.

Our world-class cloud platform keeps your app running at its best around the clock. Your app deserves the attention. You deserve the break.

RT @Ethnicsupplies: RT @africaontheblog 3 tech events in #Ghana you shouldn’t miss #Africa

@jtobin How about this for a rule. If you shoot up a liquor store, don't tattoo the entire crime scene on your chest.

Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. It does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not require a DOM. And it has a clean, obvious syntax so that you can easily write tests.

A database of breweries and beers

Adapt.js is a lightweight (947 bytes minified) JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser renders a page. It is worth noting this is a proposed, not prescribed, approach to a problem with multiple solutions. Other methods include: building a separate site for mobile, or using a media queries to adjust layouts dynamically, with a polyfill for older browser support. Also a factor is how to handle image resolutions.

Adapt.js simply checks the browser width, and serves only the CSS that is needed, when it is needed. A potential drawback of Adapt.js is the possibility of a brief flash of unstyled content as a new stylesheet is being fetched (think of it as “Ajax” for CSS). I have done my best to mitigate this by keeping CSS files small (3 KB).

Checking out Iris Couch -- a hosting svc for #CouchDB. Is anyone else using it? Thoughts?

Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute.

RT @MESTghana: Africa needs more tech incubators interesting post on startup incubators

RT @MESTghana: Africa needs more tech incubators interesting post on startup incubators

complete ruby geocoding solution.

Cloud9 is a state-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime.

so sad, RIP RT: @jsmooth995: Beyond stunned to hear that @manningmarable has passed, just days before his book release.

RT @africatechie: Mobile #Africa report is one of most comprehensive I have seen. Must read re: #africatech:

AffirmIt! is the supportive testing framework for Ruby.Studies across the globe have confirmed that the archaic practice of using testing frameworks that dampen enthusiasm and break spirits are not only damaging to young minds, but are impactful on GDP. Enter AffirmIt! -- the only behavioral evaluation framework that always uplifts the spirit and makes you feel good about your code. Out with the failing tests of yesteryear's frameworks, in with the group hugs of AffirmIt!

Location based audio network

Textastic is a fast and versatile text editor with powerful support for syntax highlighting. Connect to FTP and SFTP servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi.

Photo: can’t wait….

If you're an iOS developer, you're already familiar with UIKit, the framework used to create apps for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. Chameleon is a drop in replacement for UIKit that runs on Mac OS X. In many cases, your iOS code doesn't need to change at all in order to run on a Mac.

Creating themes for Tumblr sucks.

It’s a testament to the passion developers and designers feel for Tumblr that so many great themes exist – despite the complete lack of tools. No matter how you tackle it, developing a theme involves a time-consuming mess of manual copying and pasting, saving, testing, and copying and pasting again.

TumblrThemr solves this problem, letting you develop navigable themes locally using real data from your Tumblr blog.

RT @afrilabs: RT @googleafrica: Launching our first tech incubator today in #SouthAfrica #umbono