Bookmarks
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How to Effectively Manage Your (Huge) Todo List | Think Vitamin
Valuable insights from Ryan Carson, especially the quote “Your inbox is a todo list that anyone in the world can write to.”... -
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
Drag a gmap around and get the lat/lon -
Nice Web Type Suggests: Graublau Sans with Lucida sanserif
Handy examples on where to use Graublau Sans Web and where not -
pinch/zoom
iPhone/web collective: Garrett Murray and chumsCategories
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Hi, I’m Jason.
Inspiring job application from a designer pitching himself for a job with 37signals -
The Little Manual of API Design (PDF)
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djng—a Django powered microframework
Still requires Django’s libraries, but doesn’t require settings.py or urls.py -
web2py: Enterprise Web Framework
Python framework, now supported on Google App Engine -
Fast, authenticated file downloads with rails, apache and xsendfile
Deliver protected assets without passing through the application. Uses mod_xsendfile and a Ruby gem -
Rails Underground
24-25th July in London with some decent looking speakers -
The Meaning of Colour in Web Design
The separate meanings in different countries, eg red is life in Japan but danger in Europe (via Jon Hicks I think) -
News! I’m leaving the Robot Co-op, starting Enjoymentland
Including Buster’s lessons on how to build a happy startup -
Git Community Book
A collection of lessons on tasks you’ll need to do when learning git -
Globrix
Awesome UK property search engine with a lovely endless-scrolling dynamic interface -
Ten Critical Questions to Ask When Checking References
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12 Excellent Examples of “Lazy Registration”
Describes the practice of not obstructing the user with signup forms and gaining trust/loyalty so that they want to add their...Categories
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Call To Action Buttons
How to design an effective CTA button - good contrast, logical location, verb-first language, big size, lots of padding -
What a Twitter admin user sees
Admin pr0n - obtained naughtily of course -
Peeping into memcached
Find out what’s happening under the memcached covers. With examples on how to buld load the data into MySQL for analysis. -
Twitter API Wiki / Sign in with Twitter
Details of how to use Twitter to authenticate users via OAuth, pitching it head-to-head with Facebook and Google.