February 2010
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Show 'N Tell Friday: Experiments with...
I spent a little time this week tinkering with Processing.js for the first time. I dabbled with the original, native Processing app a while back and have been wanting to get back into it for a while. My interested has been rekindled by all of the amazing things people have been creating with <canvas> lately.
For my initial experiment, I choose to keep it simple but interesting enough...
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My Tumblr Directory Votes
For the second week in a row, my vote for Tumblr’s directory hasn’t shown up. Maybe I’m not clicking the submit button hard enough. Maybe I’ve upset the Tumblr gods somehow.
Anyhow, here are my past two recommendations:
Vizualize - “a handpicked selection of cool infographics and illustrations”
Mighty Dream - Eric Grossnickle, a talented UI designer...
Michael Tritschler: Going SimpleText →
I’ve been bit by the plain-text/Simplenote/SimpleText.ws/Notational Velocity/Taskpaper bug and have been tweaking my system very much like Michael Tritschler diagrams here.
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Rambling on Rails: jQuery + custom events =... →
Great tip for bind()-ing custom event handlers and and trigger()-ing them in a clean and reusable way.
Jacob Bijani: Totally rad HTML I just wrote →
<input type="text" class="text_field placeholder_content" value="Default value" onfocus=" if (this.className == 'text_field placeholder_content') { if (! this.getAttribute('default_value')) { this.setAttribute('default_value', this.value); } this.value = ''; this.className = 'text_field'; } "...
Jacob, this can be done much easier and cleaner with pure Javascript event handlers. I know you...
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Vimium - The Hacker's Browser →
A Chrome extension that provides keyboard-based navigation with in the spirit of the Vim editor.
I’m no longer a Vim power user, but its keybindings are still deeply ingrained in my muscle memory. Some of my most frequently used sites use the J/K keys for up/down navigation (Gmail, Google Reader, Tumblr, etc.), but this extension will allow you to do so on any site (and allows you to...
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Show 'N Tell Friday: Dynamic Search Filters
As a reminder, Show ‘N Tell Fridays are for anyone to talk a little about something they’ve worked on recently and it doesn’t have to be web design/development related. If you aren’t on Tumblr, drop me a line with a link to your post - I’d love to see what others are doing.
One of my ongoing projects is the street sign management application from Elumena. The...
Regarding designers who can't code
I usually do a pretty good job of staying out of the fray on topics that have been beaten to death. I did, afterall, manage to refrain from posting any thoughts on the iPad (but here they are FWIW: buy one or don’t and move on). The horse that is Elliot Jay Stocks’ recent tweet has been pummeled mercilessly, but it got me thinking a bit.
The tweet for the...
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All the chemicals in a human body combined are...
(via ohyeahfacts)
But approximately double that if you consume a six of Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale.
Search results with context
I’ve been using Talker with the Relevance gang for the last couple of weeks. Last week I asked a question and today I needed to look up the answer again (since I forgot to drop it into Evernote).
When I searched for ‘comma’, I got list of results just like you’d expect, but with a link to view each result in context.
It’s a small thing, but it makes the...
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Alex Payne's equivalency table for Mac and Ubuntu... →
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Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash,... →
Interesting-looking Open Source toolkit from the TinyMCE fellas.
“The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant...”
– Derek Sivers
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Show 'N Tell Friday: Multi-select UI widget
Ok, so this is my first attempt at my Show ‘N Tell Fridays thing. This is a look at one of the things I worked on recently, but I’d love to see others continue this trend and show what fun stuff you’re cooking up.
One of my current projects is building the UI for a security data collection tool. I don’t have permission to talk about the application specifically, but...
WatchInterview with Jim Reekes, creator of the Mac startup sound. Interesting bits include satanic chords and Beatles lawsuits.
Scrub in 40 seconds to skip the Dutch intro. (via UI and Us)
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firequery - jQuery love for Firebug →
Nice! You can even use the “jQuerify” feature for feeling up sites that don’t use jQuery.
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“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what...”
– Ernest Hemingway on staying motivated and productive.
