Infovore : tag : framework

22
August
2011

Links

Tagged as:
css, framework, markup, twitter.

Twitter Bootstrap

"Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more." Really nice – straightforward, elegant, and a good starting point for the scratchy websites I tend to end up making.

(tags: css framework twitter markup )

20
August
2011

Links

Tagged as:
collection, css, design, framework, interaction, interface, markup, twitter.

Twitter Bootstrap

"Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more." Really nice – straightforward, elegant, and a good starting point for the scratchy websites I tend to end up making.

(tags: css framework twitter markup )
Bill Buxton’s Interface Collection

Fantastic.

(tags: design interaction interface collection )

23
June
2009

Links

Tagged as:
analysis, animation, awesome, code, credits, css, design, distribution, facebook, film, framework, gaas, gabenewell, games, generator, grid, l4d, lastfm, layout, left4dead, motiongraphics, pixar, platforms, socialmedia, socialnetworking, steam, titles, twitter, valve, walle, web, xboxlive, yawn.

Social Animals – Eurogamer

"Even the platform holders are excited about the potential for social networking to tie into games. At E3, Microsoft proudly announced integration of Facebook, music network Last.fm and Twitter with Xbox Live. The latter pair are fairly irrelevant, admittedly. Last.fm is solely a music service, while Twitter isn't actually a social network at all – it's a one-to-many broadcast system, which isn't quite the same thing." Oh. But that's where you're wrong, Rob. Sorry.

(tags: games socialnetworking socialmedia platforms xboxlive lastfm twitter facebook yawn )
Gamasutra – News – DICE 09: Valve's Newell On 'Using Your Customer Base To Reach New Customers'

'“The degree to which you can engage your customer base in creating value for your other players” is key, says Newell. “When people say interesting or intelligent things about your product, it will translate directly into incremental revenue for the content provider.”' Masses of good things in here – think I've quoted it elsewhere – but it's not on my Delicious, so in it goes.

(tags: distribution games steam valve gabenewell gaas awesome )
Gamasutra – News – DFC: Left 4 Dead Demonstrates Potential Of Online Distribution

"DFC's main takeaway from the study is that the flexible, quickly-adaptable nature of online distribution services like Steam allow for developers to use a broad variety of promotions and incentives to keep their game communities fresh; individual promotions like the Survival Pack had a positive effect on both platforms, but it was the one-two punch of that DLC plus the followup free weekend through Steam that had the most meaningful impact on the game at any point on either platform."

(tags: valve steam l4d left4dead distribution analysis gaas games platforms )
WALL·E end title sequence + Jim Capobianco & Alex Woo interview | The Art of the Title Sequence

Art of the Title interview the chaps behind Wall-E's end credits, which knocked me out the first time I saw them, and still give me the loveliest buzz to this day.

(tags: pixar animation walle motiongraphics titles credits design film )
The 1Kb CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach

Generates a tiny file to do the most basic things, from the looks of it.

(tags: css grid layout generator code framework web design )

04
March
2009

Links

Tagged as:
abel, aeneid, analysis, apache, api, audio, bandcamp, blog, brilliant, calories, cern, cholesterol, classics, clicktrack, codeigniter, conversation, design, development, dialogue, disgusting, distribution, drummers, facebook, food, framework, games, health, htaccess, humour, integration, minicards, moo, music, pagination, pastiche, patina, photography, php, programming, promotion, python, rhythm, sagat, schulzeandwebb, security, smallpieces, sound, strategy, streetfighter4, strobist, system:filetype:png, system:media:image, tutorial, unfinished, videos, virgil, wear, web, wordpress, writing.

Pulse Laser: The Utility of the Unfinished

"How finished an artefact is is an important indicator of its relationship to the world: not just an indication of where it is in its lifecycle, but also one that explains how it should be understood, and that opens a dialogue between the observer and the artefact." Me, on Pulse Laser, talking about unfinished states as conversation tools, amongst other things.

(tags: design writing wear schulzeandwebb dialogue conversation patina unfinished )
The Aeneid on Facebook

"Virgil is singing arms and a man". I must admit, I prefer "the man", but this is lovely nontheless.

(tags: facebook humour classics pastiche aeneid virgil system:filetype:png system:media:image )
In search of the click track « Music Machinery

"I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track detector using the Echo Nest remix SDK." Analysing tempo fluctuation on a variety of popular recordings to find out who uses a click track; as you might have guessed, Ringo and John Bonham didn't.

(tags: audio music sound analysis api python clicktrack drummers rhythm )
YouTube – SF4 – Abel vs Sagat

Finally, a decent video of Abel. Ignore the first round, where he gets hammered, and concentrate on the second two: he negates Sagat's ranged game by getting in close, throwing in some careful EX scissor kicks, and massive abuse of linking a juggle into the aerial grab throw.

(tags: games strategy videos streetfighter4 abel sagat )
Almost Perfect htaccess File for WordPress Blogs | Josiah Cole dot com

Some nice tips in here, mainly about blocking access to things and security.

(tags: security wordpress apache htaccess )
Strobist: CERN, Pt. 1: It's the Little Things that Matter

David Hobby goes to Cern, and has a ball. Also: takes some nice portraits.

(tags: photography strobist cern )
Godbit Project | Pagination with Code Igniter

Useful tutorial on building Pagination, that goes beyond the Pagination library and points out what you need to be doing with the Model, too.

(tags: programming tutorial development web framework php pagination codeigniter )
Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog

Bandcamp add an automatic way to generate one-time use download codes for music – so bands can promote singles and the like. And then: they add automatic Moo Minicard generation to the mix. Bloody brilliant, and definitely The Right Way To Do Things.

(tags: distribution api promotion integration brilliant bandcamp moo minicards smallpieces )
This is why you're fat.

"where dreams become heart attacks" – photographs of revolting, calorie-drenched food "experiments".

(tags: blog food health calories cholesterol disgusting )

27
January
2009

Links

Tagged as:
acid, blackandwhite, business, carlsandburg, charity, closure, commons, consoles, culture, curation, development, donations, flash, flickr, framework, funding, games, georgeoates, history, hotness, interview, iphone, jimrossignol, light, lsd, marinehistory, marketing, mobile, nintendo, nmm, objectivec, offworld, osx, planetside, poetry, profit, reportage, resonancefm, rockpapershotgun, sailing, sales, scripting, shade, sponsorship, theescapist, video.

Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries :: Hackdiary

"I’m a web developer at heart, and a scripting language user by preference. Coding for the iPhone doesn’t feel as fluid in text handling or HTTP access as the environments I’m used to. Fortunately I’ve been able to find some fantastic open-source libraries and wrappers that make up the difference. Here are my favourites so far:" A useful – and interesting – set of links from Matt B.

(tags: mobile osx iphone development framework objectivec scripting )
chewing pixels » Troths by Carl Sandburg

"Oh words, words, words." Beautiful. Thanks, Simon.

(tags: poetry carlsandburg )
Insult Swordfighting: The Nintendo playbook

"The Wii has captured the imagination of millions of people who didn't consider themselves gamers at all. Why are we so surprised? All this has happened before." And, no doubt, all of it will happen again. Some good insight and quotation from Mitch Krpata on a history of Nintendo's console marketing and sales strategies.

(tags: games marketing business nintendo sales profit consoles )
The Planetside War: Weekend Warriors | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

War reporting from a virtual world; Jim Rossignol documents the first skirmishes in the Offworld/RPS/Escapist conflict. Looking forward to more of this.

(tags: games rockpapershotgun offworld reportage jimrossignol planetside theescapist )
S/FJ: not only with orange

"It is from the era when people were all 'we will not know if acid is dangerous until we test it on THE FOXIEST GIRLS IN ENGLAND.'" Too right.

(tags: interview video culture lsd acid hotness )
Closure.

If you can see it, it exists. If you can't, it doesn't. Lovely, tough, fun.

(tags: games flash blackandwhite light shade closure )
On the high seas – a set on Flickr

"We were delighted to have George Oates, ex of Flickr who started and managed the Commons, come to visit us at the National Maritime Museum in November 2008. When she was here she curated some Commons content for us. This set is the first of this content." Some wonderful selections; the full archive must be remarkable.

(tags: flickr history commons georgeoates curation sailing marinehistory nmm )
scraplab : a few months back i donated £25 to resonance 104.4 fm…

"Perhaps more charities should project a less glamorous image, and remind us that they still have to do all the boring stuff that everyone does at work. And perhaps then we wouldn’t have such unreasonable expectations. Sponsor a filing cabinet, sir?" The thing I like most about this is being told exactly where your contribution goes; you get a real connection with a real thing. I'd rather buy charities a shelving unit than £25 of vague platitudes.

(tags: charity sponsorship resonancefm donations funding )

29
October
2008

Links

Tagged as:
books, code, coffeehouse, colombia, computers, computing, css, design, flaminglips, framework, fraserspeirs, guitar, guitarhero, hacking, hardware, instrument, intelligence, layout, library, mac, prototyping, security, southamerica, spying, sync, syncrhonization, travelling, waynecoyne, web.

Fraser Speirs – Two Macs: Fail.

"An experiment I’ve been running for more than two years now is over: running two Macs is more hassle than it’s worth. I write not to praise synchronisation technology, but to bury it." Roughly what I'd always guessed, but Fraser is careful and detailed, and makes some sensible points. I just hope Aperture doesn't chug as much on the new MBPs as it did on the old ones, for his sake.

(tags: sync syncrhonization mac hardware computers computing fraserspeirs )
Coffee houses and civil liberty « Derivadow.com

"Yes people use the Internet to do bad thing, and quite possibly Twitter is one of those services that bad people use. But they also plan bad things in coffee house but for the last 300 odd years we’ve realised that trying to legislate against coffee houses is a bad thing for society." I recently finished Markman Ellis' book on coffee houses, and so Tom's post had a special kind of relevance.

(tags: security intelligence spying coffeehouse )
Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs

A neat summary of what's available out there; I use Blueprint for prototyping, but it's interesting to see what else is available – particularly the more stripped-down frameworks.

(tags: css design code web layout framework prototyping )
Acclaimed Colombian Institution Has 4,800 Books and 10 Legs – NYTimes.com

"A whimsical riff on the bookmobile, Mr. Soriano’s Biblioburro is a small institution: one man and two donkeys. He created it out of the simple belief that the act of taking books to people who do not have them can somehow improve this impoverished region, and perhaps Colombia." Awesome.

(tags: books library colombia southamerica travelling )
Flaming Lips frontman's double-neck 'Guitar Hero guitar' – Joystiq

"Flaming Lips vocalist-guitarist Wayne Coyne brought with him what he dubbed the 'Guitar Hero guitar,' an Epiphone double-neck with the lower, six-string neck replaced by a five-button variant and wired to an oscillator. '[It's] because a lot of kids out there think this is actually the way you play guitar…'" Awesome.

(tags: guitarhero waynecoyne guitar instrument hacking flaminglips )

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