Pantone colours of the year 31 minutes ago

Categories: Journal Rather love the Pantone colour of the year this year: Tangerine Tango or approximately #DD4124 in hex RGB. Here’s a graphic of recent years. ( Read more... )
blogger Leigh Howells

Dealing with Binary Data from a Canvas Object using … 2 hours ago

I’m not sure how helpful this will be for anyone but during the process of doing a binary WebSocket demo I found myself learning a lot about JavaScript typed arrays and how that translates into binary data. The demo I … Continue reading →
blogger Ryan Stewart

All that time wasted learning the .NET framework 5 hours ago

It hit me tonight that all that time I spent learning the .NET framework starting way back in 2002 was mostly wasted. As much as I love the C# language and have come to appreciate F# (can’t say the same for WPF & WCF), it just hit me tonight that with Windows 8 and the [...]
blogger Steve Brownlee

CF101 Archive: May 2006 Creating an RSS Aggregator 11 hours ago

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are …
blogger Jeffry Houser

You’ve Probably Underestimated Just How Big This Is 16 hours ago

I met a team at a mobile dev shop a couple of weeks ago and in the discussion I casually mentioned that mobile app usage exceeds web usage. Eyebrows were raised. I couldn’t remember where I’d heard it. No big deal, everyone knows mobile is important, we moved on. It bothered me afterwards though …
blogger transitioning.to

Photoshop in Romanian protests 20 hours ago

“Text says ‘We want cheaper Photoshop! Down with Comic Sans!,’” reports the excellently named Marius-Remus Mate. Jon Stewart one mentioned that American troops were teaching Afghan kids to play baseball. Whole families were really getting into the spirit of the game, he …
blogger John Nack

Merckx UMX-R 20 hours ago

Merckx UMX-R, fixie based on the Merckx hour record ride in Mexico '72.
blogger Veerle Pieters

Buzzihood 20 hours ago

Buzzihood, an acoustic cocoon to do a phone call in peace. Perfect color spot for a big office. Designed in Belgium!
blogger Veerle Pieters

Responsive Wireframing yesterday

Categories: Blog I’m conscious that some people in the web industry, including myself(!) may be getting tired of hearing the word ‘responsive’ in everything they read.  We shouldn’t be, because I don’t think it’s going to change any time soon (not until the …
blogger Leigh Howells

minimalmac: warbyparker: Ten years of evolution: 2011 … yesterday

minimalmac : warbyparker : Ten years of evolution: 2011 iPod vs. 2001 iPod. Progress.
blogger Tait Brown

Black Sun – kill Nazi zombies using Stage3D yesterday

Minko is one of the lesser-known Stage3D frameworks but it is actually one of the most advanced. Developed in France by Aerys, Minko boasts some of the best technology for things like 3D model compression, dynamic lighting effects, and hardware-accelerated animations. Aerys has just launched a …
blogger Lee BrimeLow

Cucumber and JS: Getting Started with cucumber.js yesterday

The Cucumber project (http://cukes.info) is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool originally designed to work with Ruby. However, since its inception its popularity has grown and there have been implementations of Cucumber written for different languages including Java, .Net, Flex, and …
blogger transitioning.to

OnePound Weight Tracking App yesterday

It's possible that AsFusion was bitten by the app bug. Soon after releasing Conqu, we decided to create another app called OnePound . This app was smaller and less ambitious than Conqu so we were able to complete it in just a few weeks time. OnePound is a weight tracking app for Android tablets, …
blogger AS Fusion

Mobile Video with PhoneGap, HTML5 and Strobe Media Playback yesterday

PhoneGap is a powerful HTML5 based cross platform application platform, but how well does it work with video? The answer is it depends on the browser capabilities. On a platform like iOS, where the browser provides access to the underlying QuickTime video engine via the HTML5 video tag, …
blogger flashstreamworks.com

What will our (future) interfaces feel like? yesterday

The visual language of our interfaces has gone through a lot of changes over the past decade. Remember what the Web 2.0 interfaces felt like? Giant type, ginormous forms, and buttons that would make Fitt’s Law insignificant. God forbid you went off task or didn’t know exactly what to …
blogger Francisco Inchauste

Searching across all resources in Chrome yesterday

Thanks for this goes to Paul Irish. For a while now I've been trying to find a way to search for a value across multiple files that are loaded in a browser request. But every time I used the Search field in Chrome Dev tools, it would only search the ...
blogger Ray Camden

CF101 Archive: April 2006 Isn't it time to Dump CF5? yesterday

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are …
blogger Jeffry Houser

10 Technology Masterpieces that made it yesterday

I just finished reading Akweli Parkers article entitled "Ten Concept Car Success Stories: The Ones that Made it to the Production Line" "Ever since legendary automotive designer Harley Earl created what was arguably the first concept car in 1938, the public has been enthralled to witness the …
blogger Duane Nickull

10 Technology Masterpieces that made it yesterday

I just finished reading Akweli Parkers article entitled "Ten Concept Car Success Stories: The Ones that Made it to the Production Line" "Ever since legendary automotive designer Harley Earl created what was arguably the first concept car in 1938, the public has been enthralled to witness the …
blogger Duane Nickull

How to Download Data as a File From JavaScript yesterday

I’m currently working on an HTML/JavaScript application that allows you to author content entirely on the client. I want to let users download that content and save it locally, but without bouncing it off a server. After some trial and error, I have it working fairly well using a data URI. …
blogger Cantrells Perspective

Quick Tip: New Right-Click Mouse Event yesterday

In this quick tip I show you how to finally get rid of Flash’s right-click context menu once and for all! You can now listen to a right-click event and use it for a custom menu or for game play. Exciting stuff! --> -->
blogger Lee BrimeLow

Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building Framework from … yesterday

Foundation by Zurb, a HTML/CSS framework for any kind of device.
blogger Veerle Pieters

Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery yesterday

Some ideas to get you thinking about typographical effects with CSS3 & jQuery.
blogger Veerle Pieters

Resumable.js, Open Source Android WebGL Implementation, … yesterday

Resumable.js Resumable.js (GitHub: 23 / resumable.js , License: MIT ) from 23 is a library for managing concurrent and resumable uploads using the HTML5 File API : The library is designed to introduce fault-tolerance into the upload of large files through HTTP. This is done by splitting each …
blogger Alex Young

Limiting The Visibility Of WordPress Posts Via Usernames yesterday

    Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design studio to distribute artwork to its various clients, or enabling a small school to arrange for homework to be …
blogger Smashing Magazine

Wireframing for responsive design yesterday

Responsive design creates some enormous challenges, not just in build but also in layout and wireframing.
blogger Paul Boag

Video: Unfolding animation yesterday

Ned Wenlock used After Effects to create a neat, endlessly layered look in this short piece: [Via]
blogger John Nack

Thibault Imbert Introduces Flash Player 11.2 And AIR 3.2 … yesterday

Thibault Imbert has written a great post Introducing Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 Beta 4 and Stage 3D support.
blogger Ben Forta

Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/27/2012 yesterday

A busy week (or so) of posts. The hot topic lately seems to be not just Stage3 but specifically 2D game development using Stage3D. Each week seems to bring upates to new or existing game engines and frameworks for 2D game development as well as tutorials on the topic. This week is no exception. …
blogger RemoteSynthesis

A look at JavaScript Form Validation yesterday

Validating forms with JavaScript has been possible since the very beginning of time... or at least the introduction of LiveScript (the original name before the marketing drones got ahold of it). While it's not particular new or as exciting as Canvas ...
blogger Ray Camden

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