Jotted down to remember.
A funny list of clients that you should be leary of.
Entertaining list on why you shouldn’t make websites.
Looks like a useful bundle for using the YUI javascript library.
Purchase some cool house numbers designed by Eric Spiekermann. Now if only I had a house…
The broken windows theory and how it’s applied to web design and development. This is something I whole heartedly agree with, although occasionally I take this a little too far. At some point you need to get your stuff up and then start patching the bro
Setup OS X to allow you to use localhost as your SMTP server.
A good rant from Croftie.
Photos of the new One Laptop Per Child.
Flash based color palate chooser from Adobe. Very cool.
Tutorial to on how to get PNGs to work in IE 6.
Documentation on the “Rubilicious” del.icio.us api wrapper.
Help article explaining the process of setting up Rails on TextDrive.
A handy refrence to the Flickr Badge classes and id elements for CSS styling.
Award we won for the neurosurgery premier program website when I was working at Children’s.
Great article about football and coaching. I espeically liked the sayings of Parcells that decorate the Cowboys’ locker room: “Blame nobody, expect nothing, do something.”
Reminds me of a line based comic a bunch of friends and I drew back in highschool but in movie form.
Open source (MIT license) iSight barcode scanning code by Conor Dearden.
Sharing videos with Tivo
Great collection of websites for design inspiration.
Swanky icon given away for free.
Jack Slocum explores some handy uses for the Yahoo! UI library.
Javascript tab interface
A fun tool to make an illustrated buddy icon.
Looks like a handy little app for securing all those passwords everyone accumulates on the internet. Until “Identity 2.0” happens this looks like a nice, viable solution.
Tested technique for simulating frames using CSS.
New Orleans based t-shirt company with a great name.
Another nice set of brushes from Design Fruit.
Installation tips
Monospace font woes
Huge gallery of business cards. Looks like a great stop for inspiration.
.htaccess file manipulation using a web application
Installing and setting up PostgreSQL on Mac OS X
The double marign bug.
Old article but still handy for setting up Mail.app
Handy plugin for Radiant to manage multiple domains
Juggernaut for Ruby on Rails initiates a flash xmlsocket between server and browser allowing real time communication between the two. This opens the door to all sorts of functionality such as chats and collaborative wikis/cms.
Tagging for Apple’s mail.app
Looks like a great set of articles on design and CSS
Great reference for using ems. I feel so advanced now…
So typogeeky! I love it.
A history hack for ajax
Enhancements for the jQuery library
Macintosh Apache MySQL and PHP in an easy to install package
Carousel image gallery
Looks like a great script and totally sidesteps the need for Headress
Nietzsche on usability: “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
Learn Ruby with cartoon foxes
An “Honest” Brand
Zeldman compares the declaration of indpendence to client work and somehow make it all work.
Distraction free writing.
A simple flash mp3 player for Wordpress
sIFR 3.0 Project Page
Stand alone versions of Safari
Interesting take on Web 2.0, the hype, etc.
3 column mail.app
I love this for firefox and have been dying to have something like it for Safari.
The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
Great Firefox themes for OSX
Another slick javascript image viewing system
Handy image viewing script. After using it at Children’s I’m quite impressed.
Good interview, with Iwata about the Nintendo Wii. I especially liked the part about not trying to compete on raw horsepower alone but instead they took a different path and went with innovative controllers and other differentating factors.
Oh man, I don’t know if I want to dip my feet into YAF (yet another framework) but after reading two articles by designers it gives me hope that this one might actually be easy enough for me to learn.
Invest in small businesses in third world countries.
Another great read from Powazek
Yes, the Web 2.0 business model is basically get bought by Google or Yahoo.
Images/icons of bullets and arrows for lists
7 default, grids tested by Yahoo! offered under the GPL. Looks intriguing…
Add that reflection effect using just javascript
Open source flash date selection slider
Online version
Custom designed blank cdr’s and cases
If only I could open the download somehow…
Gallery of the evolution of the Netflix mailer packaging.
“This guide offers researched and tested best practices for developing successful member station joint-licensee and TV-only Web sites.”
Yale’s Web Style Guide.
A good reference guide to the prototype javascript framework.
Easy rounded corners using javascript
“My web is about content.”
Client side script for parsing HTML entities. If this works as advertised it could save me hours upon hours at work.
PHP class for RSS feed reading.
A typographic history at a glance
I found the bit about code law vs. common law fascinating even out of the whole context of the “functional spec” debate.
“Cool” Children’s album
I guess since I didn’t get to go this will have to do.
Yahoo releases a shopping API.
Super light weight javascript library
Light weight PHP web application framework.
Seems handy for presentations
A case for why you should charge for your product or service.
OS X utility to turn gmail into online storage.
MeasureMap gets bought by Google. Another one!
“Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font.”
Great advice on that dreaded critique
Great and dead easy javascript rollover script. Using it at seattlechildrens.org.
I’ve always dug his work I just didn’t know it was him!
Artie is a service that utilizes Amazon.com’s public database of images to retrieve any missing cover art for your iTune’s library.
Handy in a pinch.
I’ve always loved this effect
Zeldman deflates the hype
Photographs of pool hustlers in NY
The website of the man who does the illustrations on ALA
Random File swapping over the net.
Track your packages using googlemaps
Finally you can play wmv and wma files in QuickTime on a mac. I’ve wanted this for YEARS.
Job hunting tool
Safari Guide is a free application for Mac OS X Tiger that allows developers to evaluate arbitrary XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and JavaScript expressions against the current frontmost Safari webpage.
Throwable camera lets you get some unique shots
The fuzzy circles represent a map of your meal - the area of the circle corresponds to the size of the course, and it’s left-to-right position corresponds to its relative sweetness or savoriness.
Recipe organization for OS X