July 2009
Wire & Twine : Facial Hair shirt →
I’ve long since wanted to make a shirt that illustrated beard types. I found a handful of distinctive folks that are exemplary with their facial hair, and created the drawing for this shirt.
Text Rotation with CSS →
Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements. Even better? We can make it work in Internet Explorer (back to version 5.5 even). How you might ask?…
Font Squirrel | Download Free @font-face Fonts →
This page showcases all the fonts that Font Squirrel offers for use with @font-face CSS embedding.
Helvetica | TypographyTees →
Helvetica, the widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger.
Gigya Socialize | drupal.org →
Gigya Socialize provides a single API that aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, and OpenID webmail providers including Google, Yahoo, and AOL. The…
Chroma-Hash →
Chroma-Hash is a jQuery plugin that dynamically visualizes secure text-field values using ambient color bars
Beehive Baltimore →
Beehive Baltimore is a community of freelancers, entrepreneurs, and other creative professionals sharing a common workspace in Baltimore, Maryland.
Pro Git - Pro Git Book →
This is the website for the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. Here you can find the full content of the book, a blog with tips and updates about Git and the book and open…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
Brian Posehn (1)
Buck Owens (1)
They Might Be Giants (1)
Suicide (1)
James (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full... →
Two typographers and a pro race pilot collaborated to design a font with a car. The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman.
Pattern Tap →
design pattern gallery site
Spaced (on Hulu) →
Spaced is the story of enthusiastic but directionless Daisy Steiner (played by Jessica Hynes) and wired urban surfer Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg), two twenty-somethings who lie about being a ‘professional…
MongoDB →
A key goal of MongoDB is to bridge the gap between key/value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which are deep in functionality).
Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails... →
The iPhone and iPod touch made Mobile Safari the most popular mobile browser in the United States. Although Mobile Safari is more than adequate at rendering normal Web pages, many Web developers…
Authlogic (GitHub) →
Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.
20 Ruby on Rails Tuts to Rule Them All →
Today, we’ll review twenty incredible Ruby on Rails tutorials that every developer should consider reading. Whether you’re a beginner who prefers video tutorials or an experienced dev, you’ll find an…
Howto: Subversion externals basics →
Here’s a quick howto on using subversion externals to load other subversion repositories into various directories of your project.
Sleepy nose twitch
Excessive Interoperability in the film... →
In the closing moments of Independence Day Earth is losing badly, despite our freedom fighters having very nice hair and swaggering a great deal. Earth needs more than good hair and tight fitting…
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule →
One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more.
CTV Ottawa- CTV Ottawa legend Les Lye passes away →
Actor and broadcaster Les Lye passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84…Opportunity knocked when producers of ‘You Can’t Do That on Television’ were looking for a versatile actor to play the many…
Darpa's Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a... →
“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,” says CEO
Continued Credentials Prompt in Entourage... →
When connecting to an Exchange mailbox Entourage user sees the following error repeatedly. User enters correct credentials (username, password & domain) but same error comes back again thus…
Get Sync'd | www.GetSyncd.com →
Hosted Kerio mailboxes/Exchange alternative. Syncs with almost all mail/calendar/mobile clients.
Time Warp →
With Time Warp, your personal files within your latest Time Machine backup are securely encrypted and uploaded nightly to your private Amazon.com Simple Storage Service (S3) account. Compression and…
113 Design Guidelines for Homepage Usability... →
While many of these guidelines can apply to web design in general, they are especially critical to follow when designing your homepage, because the stakes are so high. Your homepage is often your…
Resourceful →
An HTTP library for Ruby that takes advantage of everything HTTP has to offer.
CSSTidy →
CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser. It is available as executeable file (available for Windows, Linux and OSX) which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script (both with…
Redmine →
Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
Vaadin →
Vaadin is a Java framework for building modern web applications that look great, perform well and make you and your users happy.
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit →
The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.
Snippely →
Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize…
Palm Pre GUI PSD →
We still love pitching iPhone ideas but the Palm Pre offers us another way to present ideas that connect our clients with their customers. In light of this fact, we put together another PSD to help…
Juicer - a CSS and JavaScript packaging tool →
For best performance, CSS and JavaScript should be served up using as few requests and bytes as possible. Juicer is a new command line tool that helps by resolving dependencies, merging and minifying…
How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of... →
A lot of traffic between users and your site comes from the static content youâre using to set up the user interface, namely layout graphics, Stylesheets and Javascript files.
Tenori-on - Wikipedia →
Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori … It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of a sixteen by sixteen grid of…