Microsoft Street Slide
A better way navigate interactive street level map imagery…
Link: Microsoft Research: Street Slide
PDF: Published Paper
Twitter commits Murder to GitHub (Code Deployment Using Bittorrent)
Murder is a method of using Bittorrent to distribute files to a large amount of servers within a production environment. This allows for scaleable and fast deploys in environments of hundreds to tens of thousands of servers where centralized distribution systems wouldnt otherwise function. A “Murder” is normally used to refer to a flock of crows, which in this case applies to a bunch of servers doing something.
Article: Murder: Fast datacenter code deploys using BitTorrent
Code: http://github.com/lg/murder
An Entertaining Behind-the-Scenes Look at Modern Casual Game Artists
Left to right: Daniel McNeely, Joey Betz, web developer Larry Root,
John Cooney and intern Danny YaroslavskiThe developers here make perfect, self-contained little game experiences that are addicting for a few minutes, but not all-consuming. For now.
A fun article by Megan Brescini of OC Weekly that exposes a few of the individual motivations within Armor Games.
Full Disclosure: It should be known that I am responsible for the upkeep of the “Submit Game” button referred to in this article.
Article: Little Games Are Big Business at Armor Games – OC Weekly by Megan Brescini
Tips For Creating Efficiently Rendering CSS
In summary…
via Efficiently Rendering CSS | CSS-Tricks.
Smokescreen – A Flash Player Written in JavaScript
Smokescreen is a new open-source project aimed at converting Flash to JavaScript/HTML5 to run where it previously couldn’t and better interoperate with webpages where it previously could.
Demo: Strong Bad Email
Home: Smokescreen
Google Introduces JavaScript Font API and Open Source Font Directory
…Google wants to make it easier for developers to use a wider variety of fonts on the Web that go beyond the standard set of “web-safe” fonts that come pre-installed on most modern computers.
via Making Good Typography on the Web Easier: Google Introduces Font API and Directory.
NPR API Goes Read-Write
Until today, the NPR API has been a one-way firehose of content, pushing hundreds of thousands of stories from NPR and the twelve NPR Music partner stations out to the world. Now the API is read-write, allowing authorized external parties to post stories to the NPR API.
Non-Flash Users Get No Respect
Why is it that users who do not use flash are subjected to the most disrespectful experiences. Here it is again, Disney and their Toy Story website essentially gives the middle finger to those who visit their web site without flash.
Top: with flash, Bottom: without flash
Its been over 13 years since Flash was introduce. To assume that users who visit a web site without flash have somehow forgotten to enable the plug-in is simply naive. Users who visit a site without flash have most likely done so purposefully. They have either chosen to disable flash or are not able to use flash because of some other limitation. Providing absolutely no useful experience to these vistors says a lot out your site, your brand and your respect for your users.
Frond-end Code Standards from Isobar (Molecular)
A great contemporary and pragmatic approach to front-end web development standards…
This document outlines our de-facto code standards. The primary motivation is two- fold: 1 code consistency and 2 best practices. By maintaining consistency in coding styles and conventions, we can ease the burden of legacy code maintenance, and mitigate risk of breakage in the future. By adhering to best practices, we ensure optimized page loading, performance and maintainable code.
CloudApp 15 Second How To (Video)
How to use CloudApp for the Mac in under 15 seconds.
Link: Checkout CloudApp
