webdu 2012: web developer conference

A 5-year-old sketches logos 5 hours ago

Charming: Adam Ladd showed his 5-year-old daughter logos for 5 seconds apiece, then asked her to draw what she remembered: [Via Carolina de Bartolo]
blogger John Nack

Simple Offline Data Synchronization for Mobile Web and … 5 hours ago

Being able to work offline is an expected feature of mobile applications. For data-driven applications, it means that you — the developer — will have to store (a subset of) your application data locally, and implement a data synchronization mechanism that keeps your local and server …
blogger Christophe Coenraets

Tab Shelf 7 hours ago

Tab Shelf, a minimal wall-mounted shelf by Phil Procter.
blogger Veerle Pieters

FFFFFFF!!! fan 7 hours ago

I quite like the design of this FFFFFFF!!! fan by Iván Colominas/Marco Fossati.
blogger Veerle Pieters

One Minute With… Ethan Marcotte 8 hours ago

Ethan Marcotte wrote the book on responsive web design. Literally. That book is called "Responsive Web Design".
blogger Conor O'Driscoll

Nurturing a communicative relationship 9 hours ago

Too many client relationships are like something from a bad romantic comedy. In this post we look at how working with clients is much like dating. Marcus and Paul are the love doctors laying down principles for the perfect relationship.
blogger Paul Boag

A partnership of experts 9 hours ago

For the client/designer relationship to work both parties need to respect the other. In this post we explore how to move the clients perception of you as a pixel pusher to that of an expert.
blogger Paul Boag

Backgrounds, Shadows, Fonts, and the Cascade 10 hours ago

In the cascade, all other things being equal, the last one declared is the winner. In backgrounds and shadows, the reverse is true.
blogger Eric Meyer

Node Roundup: express-soap2json, cb, ApiServer 10 hours ago

You can send in your Node projects for review through our contact form or @dailyjs . express-soap2json SOAP might not be the most exciting technology to work with, but if you like Node and Express then express-soap2json (License: MIT , npm: express-soap2json ) by Tony Sokhon can make it a …
blogger Alex Young

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 10 hours ago

Wonderful 2011 typeface review with some real gems in there.
blogger Veerle Pieters

Mac OS X Lion with CSS3 10 hours ago

Mac OS X Lion with CSS3. Experiment to test the potential & limitations of CSS3.
blogger Veerle Pieters

Adobe LiveCycle ES3 (version 10.0) Download 10 hours ago

Adobe has recently announced that Adobe LiveCycle ES3 is available as a download. This announcement was met with some great enthusiasm by the community, none less than us here at Technoracle. The brand itself had been subject of much speculation regarding it’s future and we are happy to see …
blogger Duane Nickull

Info about Creative Cloud subscriptions for groups 10 hours ago

I’ve gotten a bunch of questions about how customers can buy Creative Cloud memberships in bulk.  I could send you to a Web page and a PDF—but frankly I didn’t want to read through those any more than you probably do, so I asked around & distilled the highlights: Right now …
blogger John Nack

Before Avatar, a Curious Boy 11 hours ago

Over on the Tuts+ Premium blog, Skellie has listed 20 Must See TED Talks for Creatives. This is one of them. “James Cameron’s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic — from …
blogger Collis Ta’eed

Adobe introduce two new iPad apps but are they useful? 13 hours ago

Adobe thinks it is time for us to create wireframes and collages on our iPads, but I am not so sure.
blogger Paul Boag

7 Reasons Why I Love Envato Marketplaces 14 hours ago

From a developer’s perspective who used to sell his stuff outside Envato, I’d like to tell you why I love Envato marketplaces, and why any Developer/Designer/Musician/Photographer, etc should respect these marketplaces as it may change the world of a talented people and gave them the …
blogger Collis Ta’eed

Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point 20 hours ago

Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama. Good reminder at the end about not picking sides. … Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point is a post from CSS-Tricks
blogger CSS Tricks

Captcha changes 21 hours ago

We’ve listened to your opinions about the captcha and we’ve made some changes to how the captcha works for signing in. Previously, we’ve had to force the captcha to be required for all signins due to hackers brute-forcing user accounts. This was meant to be a temporary measure …
blogger Collis Ta’eed

ShopTalk Episode 18 23 hours ago

With ol' Mean Gene Crawford! We talk about crazy clients, responsive images, health, and all kinds of other shoptalk. Thanks to Mijingo for sponsoring this episode. Direct Link to Article — Permalink … ShopTalk Episode 18 is a post from CSS-Tricks
blogger CSS Tricks

New tutorial on creating object pools in AS3 yesterday

I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows you how to create and use object pools in AS3. In the example I am using Starling but the concepts carry over to any other framework or just the traditional display list. This concept is vital to get good performance for your games on mobile.
blogger Lee BrimeLow

Bookmarks for May 13th through May 15th yesterday

These are my links for May 13th through May 15th: Driving Google Chrome via WebSocket API – igvita.com Using HTML5 localStorage on a form | Thomas Hardy – Web Developer Retina.js | Retina graphics for your website Compression Tester cssarrowplease … Continue reading …
blogger greg stewart

2012 AMGEN Tour of California Tour Tracker yesterday

Although there have been many iterations of the Tour Tracker during the last years (2008, 2010), it’s great to see another version for the AMGEN Tour of California this year. In addition to the rich desktop experience, it includes mobile applications, specifically an Adobe AIR based …
blogger flashstreamworks.com

AudioJungle: imitation, pastiches and copying yesterday

Recently at Envato, we’ve been posting about various copyright and intellectual property issues. We’ve now created a new KnowledgeBase article to help AudioJungle authors better understand what is and what is not acceptable on AudioJungle when it comes to ‘pastiche’ …
blogger Collis Ta’eed

TV Companion Apps Trending At CTIA yesterday

As an 8th year CTIA attendee, it’s always interesting to see how technology is growing and how it’s reflected at the show. The days of mobile entertainment companies touting the “gotta-have” ringtone are over. Instead, the CTIA exhibits and sessions are focused on …
blogger Universal Mind

Ask A Pro: Adaptive Publishing for Tablets yesterday

Live demo/Q&A this Friday, noon Pacific, featuring Colin Fleming: InDesign CS6 includes exciting new features that will make designing for tablet devices more efficient than ever. You will learn about the new adaptive Design Tools—Adobe Liquid Layout, Alternate Layout, Linked Content, and how …
blogger John Nack

Connect with Web Intents yesterday

Last year we proposed the Web Intents API to help web applications integrate with one another with minimal effort. We've now enabled an experimental version of the API in the most recent stable version of Chrome , to gather feedback from the web community and shape the future of the Web Intents …
blogger Chromium

Neo4J Tutorial #4: Registering a shutdown hook yesterday

In the previous tutorials on Neo4J, we discussed what Neo4J is, how to start it and use Cypher for basic queries and getting started with Neo4J and Java . In the third of these, we had hinted there are some things you should do that are best practices in a proper environment. To start this …
blogger Duane Nickull

ColdFusion 10 Released yesterday

In case you didn’t know, ColdFusion 10 was released today. More information can be found @ http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html. Filed under: Uncategorized
blogger Sami Hoda

GreenSock tweening comes to JavaScript yesterday

Great news for those who are looking to get into JS animation. GreenSock, the creator of excellent libraries like TweenLite and TweenMax, has just released their new animation platform and it includes support for both Flash and HTML5. By the looks of the API, it makes animating DOM elements and …
blogger Lee BrimeLow

JavaScript and Mobile Development Tutorials yesterday

One of the best things about my job with the Adobe Developer Connection is that I get to work with a ton of great authors writing about topics that I personally care about. Over the past months, we've already managed to publish a long list of fantastic tutorials and articles on JavaScript and …
blogger RemoteSynthesis

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