November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
Varsity Bookmarking: My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea... →
Pretty much sums up the landscape. Minnows swimming with sharks. The money is easy to get. Making a company worthwhile is another venture. Keep your head on your shoulders start ups.
pieratt:
I am the CEO of Svpply, Inc., a social shopping S-Corp operating out of New York City. My company has been the recipient of over half-a-million in investor dollars, for the stated purpose of building an...
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
5 posts
Showcase of Outstanding Responsive Web Designs →
moisesgarcia:
What is responsive web design?
Adaptive CSS →
andrewhoule:
Designing websites for devices that vary from a mobile phone to a large screen tv can be a daunting task. Media queries are picking up steam and are a great way to create a responsive design. Adapt.js takes a slightly different approach. Here’s how it’s described:
Adapt.js is a lightweight (947 bytes minified) JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the...
How HTML5 will kill the native app →
pinkpopsoda:
Over the past two decades, the mobile industry has become increasingly stunted by fragmented protocols, standards, and regional differences. But a hot new technology called HTML5 promises to remedy this by delivering an unprecedented open, democratic and wonderfully fertile mobile web. Evangelists say the HTML5 movement has so much momentum that it could defeat the native app — an...
December 2010
4 posts
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
February 2010
4 posts
December 2009
5 posts
October 2009
7 posts
type tools design reference →
Poisson Image Blending →
Who needs a designer, when you have Microsoft word and Poisson? Get the Sprite out the machines are smarter than the man.
Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave →
shaneblog:
History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback. Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites like Yelp and Google Maps offer local information that many people couldn’t fathom living without....
September 2009
21 posts
information design →
SpriteMe →
matthewb:
A very clever bookmarklet by Steve Souders that examines the background images on a page and automatically generates CSS sprites (and recomputes all background positions!) based on how the images are used in the page, and grouping by size. The interface displays a running tally of the number of HTTP requests saved as well as the reduction in filesize. My only (very minor) complaint is...