1 days ago
deusx : webdev.stephband.info - "Parallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (a
Cameron Moll : jParallax - "jParallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for
# copy
2 days ago
deusx : Cross-Browser.com - Wow, "X" - what an unsearchably-named framework. "X is a collection of loosely-bound, cross-browser, Javascript functions and objects. It is intended to be a resource from which you pick and choose - you do not have to include the entire l
# copy
2 days ago
deusx : JackDanger's jack at master — GitHub - "Rack + Javascript = Jack Write your web apps in the same powerful language on both ends."
joshua : jack - rack + javascript. javascript server env
# copy
3 days ago
deusx : jQuery PHP library - "jQuery-PHP is a PHP library that allows to tie jQerry with PHP most natural way. You don't need to think in terms of transmission, parsing and other boring staff. Now you have a bridge that brings DOM right onto your server :) and you can ealis
# copy
7 days ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How To Launch Software - How To Launch Software: I wish more people understood this!
deusx : How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like
# copy
7 days ago
deusx : Home — chain.js — GitHub - "Chain.js is a jQuery plugin, providing data-binding capability that allows you to generate web contents automatically by binding your data to html."
# copy
10 days ago
deusx : Request Weblog #Frog: REST Request - "But on a technical level, the point is not that "whatever!" is evil. The point is that if you chip a piece off "whatever!" and make it mean something specific, you can optimize around the constraints and reap the benefits."
Rod Begbie : REST Request - Another handy REST post. The API I'm building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it's still "RESTful" [via] #
# copy
11 days ago
deusx : Gruppler's Effect Demos - "Here is a small demonstration of the many possible results achievable through the relatively small set of effects currently under development. Keep an eye on this page, because there are several more effects on the way! "
# copy
11 days ago
deusx : Mike Chambers » Blog Archive » Connecting to an XMPP / Jabber Server with the XIFF AS3 Library - "Here is a simple example that shows how to connect to an XMPP / Jabber server, join a room, and send a message to the room."
# copy
12 days ago
deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz - "At this point, the benefits of building RESTful services for the Web should be self evident. The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this archite
Simon Willison : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - Explaining REST to Damien Katz. I didn’t know that it was Mark Baker back in 2002 who first pointed out that SOAP was flawed because it ignored the architecture of the Web as defined by Roy Fielding’s Ph.D thesis.
Rod Begbie : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - A good "Wherefore REST?" post. [via] #
# copy
20 days ago
deusx : Raphaël—JavaScript Library - "Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. In case you want to create your own specific chart or image crop-n-rotate widget, you can simply achieve it with this library. "
# copy
21 days ago
deusx : Database design and CakePHP (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP - "First of all you need to forget you are designing a database!" That, straight off, gives me the shakes.
# copy
21 days ago
mmb : The Tombs of Asciiroth - The Tombs of Asciiroth via Hacker News | It’s Friday - go play “The tombs of Asciiroth” [via]
nelson : Tombs of Asciiroth - Cute rogue-like, implemented in flash
deusx : The Tombs of Asciiroth - "The Tombs of Asciiroth is a free, open source game you can play right now in your browser. It has arcade, puzzle and exploration-style game play in an extensive world of font-based abstraction. If it looks a little old school, it's only becaus
# copy
23 days ago
deusx : A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together | High Scalability - "The primero recommendation for speeding up a website is almost always to add cache and more cache. And after that add a little more cache just in case. Memcached is almost always given as the recommended cache to use. What we don't often hear i
# copy
24 days ago
deusx : PURE Unobtrusive Rendering Engine for HTML - "PURE is an Open Source JavaScript Template Engine for HTML. Truly unobtrusive, it leaves your HTML untouched. It is cross-browser (IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+)."
# copy
24 days ago
deusx : PHP: Using Phar Archives - Manual - "Phar archives are similar in concept to Java JAR archives, but are tailored to the needs and to the flexibility of PHP applications. A Phar archive is used to distribute a complete PHP application or library in a single file. Unlike Java's impl
# copy
25 days ago
deusx : Home – Kohana: Swift, Secure, and Small PHP 5 Framework - My current favorite PHP framework. Strangely, I found I hadn't bookmarked this already.
# copy
25 days ago
deusx : FirePHP - Firebug Extension for AJAX Development - "All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page. Thus FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required.&q
# copy
25 days ago
deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development - "Realize You Can't Do It All In One Release ... You Can be Date Driven or Feature Driven but not Both ... Don't Lose Track of What Made the First System Successful"
# copy
25 days ago
Simon Willison : simple-thrift-queue - simple-thrift-queue. Phillip Pearson’s surprisingly concise in-memory message queue written in Python using Facebook’s Thrift library (which is similar to Protocol Buffers, but was open sourced much earlier on). Handles 4,000 requests per second on [via]
deusx : myelin's simple-thrift-queue at master — GitHub - "This is a toy in-memory (very much non-durable) queue, with a client and server in Python and a server in C++ -- the results of an evening's hacking with Facebook's Thrift protocol/RPC generator. "
# copy
26 days ago
deusx : Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » delicious redesign - "I have no idea why Yahoo took so long to beat the ugly out of delicious. I’m just glad they didn’t beat the good stuff out in the process."
# copy
27 days ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing - "I am in no way saying that AtomPub is the solution. What I am pointing out is that if you want federation then you need to design your protocols and APIs RESTfully. In this example it is hypertext, link following, in the AtomPub spec that allows the
# copy
30 days ago
wearehugh : Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons — All in the head
# copy1 month ago
deusx : jQuery Sparklines - "This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript. "
# copy
1 month ago
Simon Willison : The Open Web Foundation - The Open Web Foundation. Launched today at OSCON, an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to incubating and protecting new specifications like OAuth and oEmbed. The focus is incubation, licensing, copyright and community.
deusx : Open Web Foundation - "The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications. Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities de
# copy
