February 2012
52 posts
Feb 24th
5 Inspiring Places to Work - brought to you by The... →
Interesting view into the workplaces of well known startups.
Feb 24th
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.
Feb 21st
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“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
Feb 21st
“Find things you want by trading stuff you no longer need.”
– Ollawalla
Feb 21st
“After a while, it struck me that most French descriptions of American kids...”
– Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman - WSJ.com
Feb 21st
“A place for European entrepreneurs to share demos, stories or ask questions.”
– Hackful Europe
Feb 21st
“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
Feb 21st
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient...”
– Meat
Feb 21st
“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...
Feb 21st
“Realize piracy is a service problem.”
– You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You - Forbes
Feb 21st
“At many companies, the way you get a raise is to quit. As a matter of policy. I...”
– Never Make Counter-Offers | Bram Cohen
Feb 21st
“Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface...”
– Bootstrap, from Twitter
Feb 21st
“Here’s a great relationship hack that emphasizes partnership and...”
– Keep Your Relationship Strong with a Shared To-Do List
Feb 21st
“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
Feb 21st
“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
Feb 21st
“Pinterest cleverly disguises their sign-up flow as “requesting an invite”,...”
– Simplified Sign-Up and Log-In | SachaGreif.com Awesome sign up processes.
Feb 21st
“Add color to your Bootstrap site without touching a color picker.”
– Bootswatch: Free themes for Twitter Bootstrap
Feb 21st
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…
Feb 21st
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“You’ve clamoured for it and now you have it: Hosted RavenDB is in beta as...”
– Hosted RavenDB in Beta! - AppHarbor
Feb 21st
“In this book, we will take a look at a number of popular JavaScript design...”
– Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
Feb 21st
“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
Feb 21st
“Traditionally, creating presentations requires using an app like Powerpoint and...”
– How to Create a Compelling Browser-Based Presentation in Minutes with Deck.js
Feb 21st
Giniji: Faster Shopping →
Great simple interface.
Feb 21st
“A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration...”
– musicForProgramming();
Feb 21st
“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
Feb 21st
“Whether they’re on a long flight, riding through a subway tunnel, or...”
– Saving Data while Offline
Feb 21st
“So the Sands got old, but Vegas is still cool. Or, at least, it draws a hell of...”
– Oscillatory Thoughts: How casinos distract
Feb 21st
“Email has “stagnated” and three Australians who quit Google say they...”
– Aussies’ fix for ‘stagnated’ email
Feb 21st
“This document is a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing...”
– Javascript Best Practices
Feb 21st
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…
Feb 20th
41 notes
“Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private...”
– Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
Feb 20th
“WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates....”
– Themes for Twitter Bootstrap - WrapBootstrap
Feb 20th
“Sequence is the jQuery slider plugin with infinite style. It provides the...”
– Sequence Theme Demo - Modern Slide In
Feb 20th
“Dappers ORM Benchmarks”
– Open source .NET and Mono web services framework Nice comparison on ORMs based on speed benchmarks.
Feb 20th
“Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering intuitive,...”
– Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage
Feb 20th
“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,...
Feb 16th
“MapReduce is a Google software framework, whereas map and reduce (AKA fold) are...”
– Unboxing: map, reduce and Underscore.js | Our Blog | Box UK
Feb 13th
“Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser web applications with...”
– patterns & practices: Project Silk
Feb 13th
“A modern fresh alternative to WCF. Code-first, convention-based, codegen-free....”
– Open source .NET and Mono web services framework
Feb 13th
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
Feb 9th
“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
Feb 9th
“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.
Feb 9th
“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?
Feb 7th
jQuery - YUI 3 Rosetta Stone →
Guideline to convert jQuery to YUI and vice versa.
Feb 7th
“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()
Feb 7th
“Brent Ozar, our go-to DBA expert/database magician, told us you can’t predict...”
– Stack Overflow running short on space « Nick Craver
Feb 7th
CRON.IO - Web based cron service →
Is a cron service with an api
Feb 7th
“Tinycon allows the addition of alert bubbles and changing the favicon image....”
– Tinycon - Favicon Alerts
Feb 7th
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