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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices →
Some useful tips for anyone working with MySQL databases queries.
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
