February 2012
52 posts
5 Inspiring Places to Work - brought to you by The... →
Interesting view into the workplaces of well known startups.
Tumblr Staff: Tumblelog search →
We’re rolling out search across Tumblr, starting with individual tumblelog search.
You can check it out on our tumblelogs here:
David’s Log
Marco.org
Search boxes aren’t in any stock themes yet, but they’ll be included soon.
In the meantime, you can add a search box to your custom theme…
Test search still doesn’t work on the example blogs given. Thumbs down.
“How important is it for your domain name to be related to the service you are...”
– Ask HN: How do you pick your domain name? | Hacker News
“Find things you want by trading stuff you no longer need.”
– Ollawalla
“After a while, it struck me that most French descriptions of American kids...”
– Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman - WSJ.com
“A place for European entrepreneurs to share demos, stories or ask questions.”
– Hackful Europe
“Here’s how it works: Users who like to test apps sign up to receive daily...”
– Like Testing New Apps? BetaBait Will Hook You Up
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient...”
– Meat
“Your interests are associated with an advertising cookie that’s stored in...”
– Ads Preferences Manager
Your categories
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Jazz & Blues - Jazz
Computers & Electronics - Networking - Network Monitoring & Management
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you’ve visited. You can remove...
“Realize piracy is a service problem.”
– You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You - Forbes
“At many companies, the way you get a raise is to quit. As a matter of policy. I...”
– Never Make Counter-Offers | Bram Cohen
“Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface...”
– Bootstrap, from Twitter
“Here’s a great relationship hack that emphasizes partnership and...”
– Keep Your Relationship Strong with a Shared To-Do List
“if you don’t know what you’re supposed to do, or don’t understand something,...”
– What I Learned at Summify Before Twitter Swooped Down and Snatched-Up My Team | Robin Campbell
“Ask rails developer how to do authentication, and you’re likely going to hear...”
– What Craigslist Did Right #1: User Management Without Usernames or Passwords - JobPoacher Blog
“Pinterest cleverly disguises their sign-up flow as “requesting an invite”,...”
– Simplified Sign-Up and Log-In | SachaGreif.com
Awesome sign up processes.
“Add color to your Bootstrap site without touching a color picker.”
– Bootswatch: Free themes for Twitter Bootstrap
Eric Stromberg: Increasing User Engagement in... →
estromberg:
For any consumer application, email is an important tool to drive engagement. Last year, Fred Wilson went as far as calling it “Social Media’s Secret Weapon.” After optimizing the Hunch weekly recommendation emails for a few months last summer, I thought it might be useful to share some of…
“You’ve clamoured for it and now you have it: Hosted RavenDB is in beta as...”
– Hosted RavenDB in Beta! - AppHarbor
“In this book, we will take a look at a number of popular JavaScript design...”
– Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
“There are over 400 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are...”
– Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory
“Traditionally, creating presentations requires using an app like Powerpoint and...”
– How to Create a Compelling Browser-Based Presentation in Minutes with Deck.js
Giniji: Faster Shopping →
Great simple interface.
“A series of mixes intended for listening
while programming to aid concentration...”
– musicForProgramming();
“Mass Effect is a video game. Specifically, a role-playing, third-person shooter...”
– Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation
“Whether they’re on a long flight, riding through a subway tunnel, or...”
– Saving Data while Offline
“So the Sands got old, but Vegas is still cool. Or, at least, it draws a hell of...”
– Oscillatory Thoughts: How casinos distract
“Email has “stagnated” and three Australians who quit Google say they...”
– Aussies’ fix for ‘stagnated’ email
“This document is a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing...”
– Javascript Best Practices
Domainr Blog: How to Acquire a Domain Name (That... →
domainr:
Background: We created Domainr almost four years ago, and since then many people have contacted us asking how to buy domain names that other people already own. We’ve not yet been through that process ourselves, so we asked our friend Julian Shapiro, founder of NameLayer, to write a guest…
“Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private...”
– Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
“WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates....”
– Themes for Twitter Bootstrap - WrapBootstrap
“Sequence is the jQuery slider plugin with infinite style. It provides the...”
– Sequence Theme Demo - Modern Slide In
“Dappers ORM Benchmarks”
– Open source .NET and Mono web services framework
Nice comparison on ORMs based on speed benchmarks.
“Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering intuitive,...”
– Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage
“The solution I took was to change FxCop’s settings to ignore versions when...”
– Reference resolution with Code Analysis/FxCop – TechBlog
Solves an issue with FxCop when you have a two NuGet installs that depend on different versions of the DLL.
Warning looks like:
The indirectly-referenced assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.0.4.0, Culture=neutral,...
“MapReduce is a Google software framework, whereas map and reduce (AKA fold) are...”
– Unboxing: map, reduce and Underscore.js | Our Blog | Box UK
“Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser web applications with...”
– patterns & practices: Project Silk
“A modern fresh alternative to WCF. Code-first, convention-based, codegen-free....”
– Open source .NET and Mono web services framework
Ten most relaxing tracks "ever"
These are the top ten most relaxing tracks “ever” according to the Daily Fail.
Marconi Union - Weightless
Airstream - Electra
DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix)
Enya - Watermark
Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
Barcelona - Please Don’t Go
All Saints - Pure Shores
Adele - Someone Like You
Mozart - Canzonetta Sull’aria
Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly
“The heroes are always in possession of a great secret, one that will disrupt the...”
– I have a bad feeling about this - raganwald’s posterous
“Use the following URL to search a data source for entities that are within one...”
– Query Near a Route
Bing Spatial Data Services allows you to upload points of interest to Bing and then use that data source to query data in that datasource. A very cool idea.
“I created a ramp test scaling from 0 to 1000 concurrent users firing a single...”
– tech rash: Is Raven Db all it’s cracked up to be?
jQuery - YUI 3 Rosetta Stone →
Guideline to convert jQuery to YUI and vice versa.
“If you have been confused about the various different types of event binding...”
– Web Dev .NET: Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()
“Brent Ozar, our go-to DBA expert/database magician, told us you can’t predict...”
– Stack Overflow running short on space « Nick Craver
CRON.IO - Web based cron service →
Is a cron service with an api
“Tinycon allows the addition of alert bubbles and changing the favicon image....”
– Tinycon - Favicon Alerts
