“Choosing your technology stack is one of many decisions you’ll have to make when creating a company from scratch. Along with this, you’ll need to figure out who you should found a company with, who you should take money from, what the company culture should be, management processes, and who to hire when. Joe will be covering basic technology stack choices (cloud v. hosted, frameworks, etc.) as well as other critical decisions one faces when starting a startup.”
Paper.js »
June 27, 2011 -
A JavaScript vector graphics framework utilizing HTML5 Canvas. It has “a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.”
Chinese web design patterns: how and why they’re different »
June 27, 2011 -
Chinese Web design patterns: How and why they are different from the West. @ChuiSquared’s slides from UPA 2011
Rapid Prototyping with flickrBomb »
June 23, 2011 -
Use Flickr to automatically fill placeholder images in your prototypes
jQuery Waypoints »
June 21, 2011 -
via @slhernandez Slick. A “small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.”
Sprite Cow »
June 21, 2011 -
Makes it easy to generate the CSS for the background-position, width and height of images within a sprite.
Dear Photograph »
June 17, 2011 -
Beautifully simple. “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.”
The American Dream
June 16, 2011 - Leave a Comment
“We would not have become a global superpower without the contributions of immigrants who built the railroads and canals that opened up the west, who invented ground-breaking products that revolutionized global commerce, and who pioneered scientific, engineering, and medical advances that made America the most innovative country in the world.
“But make no mistake: we will not remain a global superpower if we continue to close our doors to people who want to come here to work hard, start businesses, and pursue the American dream. The American dream cannot survive if we keep telling the dreamers to go elsewhere.
“It’s what I call national suicide – and that’s not hyperbole. Every day that we fail to fix our broken immigration laws is a day that we inflict a wound on our economy. Today, we may have turned away the next Albert Einstein or Sergey Brin. Tomorrow, we may turn away the next Levi Strauss or Jerry Yang.
This is far too true, and it saddens me to see the growing anti-immigration drive and calls for isolationism. The United States is powerful because of the risk and work of the brave men and women who came to our shores over these last few centuries.
To turn away the next generation only serves to weaken our future on every possible front.
Simply put, it is a betrayal of our core principles as a nation.
It’s a betrayal born of complacency and fear.
We can do better.
CSS Lint »
June 16, 2011 -
We’ve gone too long without a good lint tool for CSS. This one provides syntax checking and applies “a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency. The rules are all pluggable, so you can easily write your own or omit ones you don’t want.”
All That’s Programmed is Not Code
June 14, 2011 - Leave a Comment
We’re all programmers now. We all have to decide what to post next, what to point to next, what to launch next. Is there a skill in dreaming up Must-See Thursday nights, or in establishing a season of Shakespeare or even in deciding what’s on the special list at the restaurant? I think there is.
This is one of the most important lessons I’ve learned over these last few years working at a high-tech media company. Crafting, combining and scheduling content is just as important as, and not that different from, writing code and designing interfaces.
If your work hits the screen, you’re programming at some level.
A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do »
June 14, 2011 -
I tend to avoid ’roundup’ posts as they’re usually just link-bait, but this one has managed to present several techniques that I want to dig in and experiment with.
Getting Funded: Market, Product, Team »
June 12, 2011 -
A must-read for entrepreneurs and anyone in the start-up world.
Bacon Ipsum »
June 9, 2011 -
“Does your lorem ipsum text long for something a little meatier? Give our generator a try… it’s tasty!”