Worksology: Latest bookmarks

The power of “no”

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:03:47 -0600

I love Jacob’s suggestion that it’s the “open source development model” and the exercising of the right to say “no” that makes open source projects like Django so successful. It’s in answering only to the needs of the software—not management or marketing—and that model canbedeployed anywhere, even in commercial products.

Visit site (http://jacobian.org/writing/the-power-of-no/#id6)

Video for Everybody!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:18:23 -0600

Use HTML5 video where available, falling back to Apple QuickTime® or Adobe Flash® in older browsers.

Visit site (http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody)

Why do we have an IMG element?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:31:13 -0600

A fascinating history of the image tag — or more importantly, the manner in which the HTML evolved — from Mark Pilgrim. Such a rich history here, it tickles the nostalgia bone a good deal.

Visit site (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/11/02/why-do-we-have-an-img-element)

Video on the Web - Dive Into HTML5

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0600

From Mark Pilgrim’s Dive into HTML5 comes this excellent & thorough chapter on the new <video> tag.

Visit site (http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html)

Fellowship Technology’s Design Patterns Library & Code Standards

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:02:46 -0600

There are certainly some stylistic preferences in here, but Fellowship One’s internal code standards guide is overwhelming good advice and best practice when front-end coding. If you “dabble” in HTML, CSS &/or Javascript, following these conventions will give you the confidence you’re doing things correctly. I would like to put together a similar guide with my coworkers on the K-State Webteam.

Visit site (http://developer.fellowshipone.com/patterns/code.php)

Helveticons

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:42:04 -0600

“icons, glyphs and symbols based on the Helvetica Bold typeface” Wow. I want to go to there. Love these.

Visit site (http://helveticons.ch/)

House of Flying Reference Marks, or Quillon & Choil

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:32:49 -0600

Jonathan Hoefler at H&FJ describes another favorite character to design: reference marks, particularly the asterisk, dagger & double dagger: > There are standard fourth-, fifth- and sixth-order reference marks, too: they are the section mark (§), parallels (||), and number sign (#), after which the cycle repeats with doubles, triples, and so on: *, †, ‡, §, ||, #, , ††, ‡‡, §§, ||||, ###, *, †††, ‡‡‡, etc. The whole series is worth a read: ¶, ß, and &.

Visit site (http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=190)

Victorinox Special Edition Airstream

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:55:32 -0600

Two of my favorite brands, Airstream and Victorinox, collaborate on the ultimate product for my favorite pastime: road-tripping. At only $59,000, feel free to get this for me for any special occasion.

Visit site (http://www.airstream.com/products/victorinox-special-edition/index.html)

SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound for the Web

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:06:46 -0600

Some very cool Canvas + JS MP3 players & visualizers.

Visit site (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/)

Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering | Holovaty.com

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:10:35 -0600

Adrian Holovaty describes a clever technique they use at Everyblock to render templates in two phases — the first to generate and cache the expensive, data-intense part of the site; the second to render the final, uncached bits (the “You’re logged in as…” bit). Includes code

Visit site (http://www.holovaty.com/writing/django-two-phased-rendering/)

Django NamePaginator snippet

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:49:00 -0600

Here’s a very cool pagination snippet that allows you to create an alphabetical list of objects like: Browse by title: A-G | H-N | O-Z. NamePaginator works almost exactly like Django’s Paginator: you pass in a list of objects and how many you want per letter range and it dynamically generates the pages so that there are approximately that many objects per page. I wish this were a full-fledged app, like django-pagination, with all the features of that app, but this is a great start and a very useful bit of functionality.

Visit site (http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1364/)

Sharing the wealth - The Daily Nightly

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:42:07 -0600

A preview of the NBC Nightly News segment featuring B&W and my dad, Joe Works, during their “Acts of Kindness” special series.

Visit site (http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/16/1838147.aspx)

Haystack - Search for Django

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:11:17 -0600

Haystack, Daniel Lindsley’s search app for Django, looks like a perfect addition to my Django toolkit. The API matches how Django’s admin works, trading indexes.py for admin.py and autodiscovering indexes in the same way manner. Supports a variety of backends, including Solr.

Visit site (http://haystacksearch.org/)

jQuery Sparklines

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:25:39 -0600

I love both jQuery and I love sparklines, Edward Tufte’s data-rich, word-size graphics, so I’m bound to love this full-featured jQuery plugin for generating sparklines and other small graphics. Can’t wait to use this in practice.

Visit site (http://www.omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/)

Tomorrow, in a year

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:29:32 -0600

Tomorrow, in a year is a Darwin opera, celebrating The Origin of Species’ 150-year anniversary, with music by The Knife. > The performance falls into two parts – analogous to the development and publications of The Origin of Species. The first part of the performance concentrates on studying the subelements – the underlying DNA sequences and interrelationships of the image, the narrative, the movement and the music – a kind of micro-biological, morphological study. The second part of the performance is a synthesis where an enclosed totality emerges before once more mutating and passing into new forms made of the same material. New editions appear with echoes in the surrounding world. It debuts in November 2009 in Copenhagen and I’d love to be there.

Visit site (http://www.hotelproforma.dk/side.asp?side=2&id=438&ver=uk)