September 2011
13 posts
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Sassy Mother Effing Text Shadow →
Keep scrolling until you get to the last one and get your mind completely blown to bits.
This CSS has been beaten to within an inch of death. It’s too big, unreadable, and completely impractical. Sass should not be used to such ill-conceived ends.
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Rapid CSS Prototyping →
Speed up your web design prototyping by adding a few lines of CSS for a grid and editable text. Try out the demo.
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Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway →
Newsflash: Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn’t matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
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Scientists 'See' YouTube Videos in the Mind →
Awesome.
“We need really big computers.”
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A story about a failed education web app →
The story of someone spending a year building, selling and giving up on Knack, an online grade book for teachers. Some interesting lessons learnt, including this part about why his app failed:
Teachers say they love tech. Some blog about it. They tweet about it in #edchat and #edtech. They even coin their own special tech terms. This is a farce. Talking about tech and being on the Twitter...
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If PHP Were British →
Before:
switch ($variable) {
case $option1:
//Code here
break;
case $option2:
//Code here
break;
default:
//Code here
break;
}
After:
what_about (£variable) {
perhaps £possibility:
//Code here
splendid;
perhaps £other_possibility:
//Code here
splendid;
on_the_off_chance:
//Code...
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WatchTinkertanker Exercise Day
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A Coffeescript presentation →
Haven’t fully switched yet here, but worth a quick read for the beard-related revelation.
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placekitten →
A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.
Don’t forget to view source.
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Yoke, a Ruby interface for Mac OS X →
Awesome:
Forget about OSX terminal. Forget irb. Use ruby everywhere. Meet Yoke.
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Fraser Speirs on 1-to-X computing →
We are already at a point where the ratio of professionals to computers is 1:2. A laptop and a smartphone are standard equipment in our society. With the advent of the tablet, we may be moving towards or beyond three computers per person. The fact of the matter, though, is that this ubiquity of computing devices is not reflected in most schools.
(There’s also a bit about how Stallman...
