November 2011
1 post
October 2011
6 posts
jwerty - Awesome handling of keyboard events →
Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web... →
“Quick, what was big about a year after tiling background patterns were discovered in 1998? I’m going to start a blog about that and be rich…”
“…exercise isn’t just about physical health and appearance. It also...”
– The Creative Brain On Exercise | Fast Company
Nate Hallinan Portfolio →
I wish I could draw properly. :(
Wonderputt →
Beautiful little Flash golf game.
September 2011
9 posts
jQuery Masonry →
Another one for the layout toolkit.
Fluid Squares v2. A responsive grid experiment. →
Pretty much exactly what I was planning with the design for the lifestream app I’m building. Yoink!
The Psychologist’s View of UX Design →
Some useful psychological heuristics for assessing your UX work.
Mobile Web Resources from Breaking Development →
Jumping into Mobile First with both feet.
9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s... →
“Good design is not an accident. It’s not something that just happens by someone...”
– Interface Design is Copywriting « Bokardo
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS →
Critics call foul as Google takes aim at... →
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure...”
– Making things, infinite games, and Fred Brooks
January 2011
1 post
Less Framework 3 →
A possible candidate for inclusion in any redesign I may do, although my mind doesn’t work well with odd numbers of columns…
August 2010
3 posts
Justin Bieber 800% slower →
Reminiscent of Blade Runner-era Vangelis, and surprisingly listenable.
Periodic Table of the Elements →
Finally, a genuinely useful piece of information design.
“A general rule of thumb is that if you look at a section of code and think...”
– From Drupal’s coding standards
July 2010
1 post
Using URL rewrites to make ExpressionEngine,... →
Bookmarking this article so I don’t have to keep searching for it when this problem bites me every time.
June 2010
1 post
EECI2010 Round-Up →
Bookmarking for future reference back to the various Erskine presentations from EECI2010.
May 2010
1 post
So you’re moving to Hollywood →
A great, great article on the experiences of a 20-something aspiring screenwriter working a series of soul-destroying PA jobs in Los Angeles.
April 2010
2 posts
“If a film’s selling point is that when you watch it with special glasses on then...”
– I am already bored with 3D | Joeblade
Google Maps API Tutorials →
An enormous collection of tutorials and links relating to Google’s Maps API.
March 2010
5 posts
3 CodeIgniter libraries that will make your life... →
The Ocular templating library looks interesting.
Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders →
An actually useful single-serving site. I’m bound to forget about it when I actually need it, though…
JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth →
This is a great, detailed look at the Module Pattern in JavaScript. I’d really like to convert all our code to use the loosely-coupled version of this with lazy-loading of scripts to speed up our…
“If you are running require()-esque loader code in the browser you want to avoid...”
– RequireJS: Asynchronous JavaScript loading
February 2010
5 posts
FPDF Library - PDF Generator →
Via @drewm, a handy PDF library for PHP.
Revised Font Stack →
My new go-to resource for deciding on a decent font stack in those important first few CSS rules of each new site.
1000 Free "Farm-Fresh Web Icons" →
Larger versions of famfamfam by the look of it.
The Missing Google Analytics Manual →
A helpful collection of links and tutorials on Google Analytics - always nice if someone else does the hard work and finds the best results for you.
January 2010
3 posts
Automatic data URI embedding in CSS files →
Details and link to a tool that automatically converts your CSS background images into data URIs.
How to reduce the number of HTTP requests →
This is brilliant, and deserves a lot more attention. A command line script that can convert all your CSS background-images into data URIs - the result is a much larger CSS file, but only one HTTP request!
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
5 posts
Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices →
Some useful tips for anyone working with MySQL databases queries.
Installing APC on Media Temple Grid Server →
Never heard of this, but if the performance gains are significant and no extra work is involved it sounds like an easy win.
Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps →
A comparison of a few different techniques for dealing with lots of markers on your Google Map.
“As the proverb suggests, sometimes you can’t jump a twenty foot chasm in two ten...”
– Statistical significance & other A/B test pitfalls
October 2009
28 posts
“…my attempts to impress in the kitchen generally just mean using more pans...”
– Pete Lambert takes his turn in the kitchen
“Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be...”
– The footer of New to York
