Cloud9 IDE is pushing the envelope of what we devs can expect from our code environment. With a heavy JavaScript and Node.js slant, Cloud9 runs in any modern browser and integrates with git/github and also offers a streamlined approach to deployment. I’ll be attempting to use it on my personal projects. What I’ve seen so [...]
A well designed site by the folks who brought us HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr and CSS3, HTML5 Please shows how to implement specific HTML5 features: with confidence, with a fallback or with polyfills. The site also breaks it all down with a searchable interface and the ability to filter by html, css, js or browser-native API. [...]
A blog post from September 2010 by the Twitter engineering team, while published a year ago, describes very well the recent shifts in web app development. It goes into substantial detail regarding their 2010 redesign. As it turns out, the redesign was far more than a re-imagined UI, but in fact relied heavily on shifting [...]
Mozilla Developer Central has long been a go to source for for technical documentation of web-standards based development. Now this excellent resource for info on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the DOM has been organized with a nice clean UI. dochub.io is a welcome take on this exhaustive information, made more suitable for browsing and quick [...]
A camera positioned at an unknown location in New York City documents the change in color of the skyline every five minutes. The average color is computed, and is represented on a grid of hex colors on a website. Presumably this installation art of sorts, accessed through the humble web browser, has been running since [...]