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OverviewBanners2 (Field)
by Emaux
Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind:
Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, Field tries to bridge to as many libraries, programming languages, and ways of doing things as possible. The world doesn't necessarily need another programming language or serial port library, nor do we have to pick and choose between data-flow systems, graphical user interfaces or purely textual programming — we can have it all in the right environment and we can both leverage the work of others and take control of our own tools and methods.
Live code makes anything possible — Field tries to replace as many "features" with editable code as it can. Its programming language of choice is Python — a world class, highly respected and incredibly flexible language. As such, Field is intensely customizable, with the glue between interface objects and data modifiable inside Field itself. Field takes seriously the idea that its user — you — are a programmer / artist doing serious work and that you should be able to reconfigure your tools to suit your domain and style as closely as possible.
A better way to use icon fonts — yatil. Eric Eggert about web development & design.
by Spone
There are some browser and screen reader combinations that treat CSS not only as a presentational thing, but apply meaning according to the used properties. For example some won’t read a list if you use list-style: none; in your CSS. This assumes that the meaning of your HTML is overwritten by the visual style: If it doesn’t look like a dumb bullet list, it must be no list at all. I’m not sure I conclude with that assumption, but that isn’t the main point of the article here.
Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment)
Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.
January 2012
SOCIAL TV: Creating New Connected Media Experiences
by sbrothier
In this course we will examine television distribution asking the question "how is digital technology changing they way television fits into society." The course will take a systemic look at the various ways television is currently distributed with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies that place television in a social context. The classwork for the course will be team and project focused, culminating in each team developing a prototype of a new social TV application. We will explore the multiple facets of the social TV experience from video technology fundamentals and challenges, to user interfaces, content consumption and business cases.
Social television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by sbrothier
Social Television is a general term for technology that supports communication and social interaction in either the context of watching television, or related to TV content. It also includes the study of television-related social behavior, devices and networks. Social television systems can for example integrate voice communication, text chat, presence and context awareness, TV recommendations, ratings, or video-conferencing with the TV content either directly on the screen or by using ancillary devices. Social television is very active area of research and development that is also generating new services as TV operators and content producers are looking for new sources of revenue. While a number of existing social television systems are still at a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions are available commercially. White-labeled social TV platforms have also emerged (such as Visiware's PlayAlong, LiveHive Systems and Ex Machina's PlayToTV) which allow TV networks and operators to offer branded social TV applications. On the ratings front, companies such as SocialGuide, Bluefin Labs, Networked Insights and TrendrrTV have emerged to measure the social media activities tied to specific TV telecasts.[1] In essence, these new companies seek to serve as the Nielsen Ratings of the social televisions space.
Meri Media
by gregg
MERI Media is a new company with a new approach to digital publishing. Having developed a proprietary software system for publishing digital magazines, advertisements and catalogues on the iPad and other touch-screen devices, MERI Media's mission is to match this software development with strong creative direction that ensures high-impact, distinctive and efficient solutions across the junctures of e-commerce, contract publishing and advertising for brands and media organisations.
GroupSpaces
by gregg
Manage your group online
The complete solution for treasurers, secretaries, team captains, church leaders, fundraisers and all group leaders like you!
Free Group Website, Membership Database, Listserv Mailing List, Online Group Management Software :
Cemetech | Projects | Door-Mounted E-Paper Information Panel
repurposed e-paper development kit to display useful information on a door, such as a personal calendar, local weather, and recent news. It pulls bzip2'd images from a webserver that fetches and compresses the data to be displayed.
Men and pigs, united by a game. | AMUSEMENT.NET
by sbrothier
A new game, Pig Chase, will soon let you have a play date with a pig. Following a European legislation, farmers have to provide pigs with entertainment to prevent them from being bored or violent. A team from the Utrecht School of the Arts and Wageningen University came up with a solution: a tablet game where humans and pigs play together towards the same objective. The human controls a ball of light on his touchscreen. The pig has to do the same thing with his snout on the screen of his pen. If they succeed to bring the ball to the goal an explosion of lights bring joy and happiness to the pigpen. And a great satisfaction for the human: he’s going to eat a peaceful meat.
Dev Chat Notes for January 4, 2012 « WordPress Development Updates
by François Hodierne
Wordpress development process
December 2011
Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development
by Spone & 1 other (via)
Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
Warco | Defiant Development
by gregg
WARCO lets players shoot and record what they see ‘through the lens’ – framing shots, panning and zooming, grabbing powerful images of combatants and civilians caught up in war. They’ve got AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades – you’ve got a flak jacket, a video camera, and a burning desire to get the story. Every game space is embedded with multiple objectives and story leads for journalist Jesse DeMarco to find – a scoop if she’s smart, mortal danger if she drops her guard…
Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons why Puppet wins | Bitfield Consulting
by holyver
Puppet, Chef, cfengine, and Bcfg2 are all players in the configuration management space. If you’re looking for Linux automation solutions, or server configuration management tools, the two technologies you’re most likely to come across are Puppet and Opscode Chef. They are broadly similar in architecture and solve the same kinds of problems. Puppet, from Reductive Labs, has been around longer, and has a large user base. Chef, from Opscode, has learned some of the lessons from Puppet’s development, and has a high-profile client: EngineYard.
I AM PELLE | Pelle Martin
by gregg
My areas of expertise include Creative direction, Art direction, Web design, App design, Graphic design, Concept development, User experience, Motion Graphics, Animation, Video editing, Post production, Quality securing and making people fell good when they work with me :)
Introducing the new responsive-designed BostonGlobe.com | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
by sbrothier
The Boston Globe flipped the switch today on its accessible, progressive enhancement and responsive-design based subscription news site. As front-end development leads on the project (with Ethan Marcotte at our side), we're very honored to have been involved.
“Mobile first” CSS and getting Sass to help with legacy IE
by greut
Taking a “mobile first” approach to web development poses some challenges if you need to provide a “desktop” experience for legacy versions of IE. Using a CSS pre-processor like Sass can help.
How To Use WordPress Custom Post Type Query to Sort by Date | DesignHammer Website Design and Development in North Carolina
by mozkart (via)
One thing we were trying to achieve was an Events listing solution that was fundamentally simple. Date, times, location and a description.
Many of the events plugins out there seem to store their data in a database table specifically created for the plugin, something that won't play nice with MultiSite. The ideal solution would be a list of events that stores its data in each network site's unique database table structure. Therefore, we chose to set this up as a custom post type with a date picker attached to a custom meta box. We would store the date in a custom field. Simple enough. One thing that had us racking our brains for a while was how to sort the dates in a useful way.
Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight Book Review
by tadanderson
If you are considering Windows 7.5 development, you owe it to yourself to get this book, digest it, and then keep it by your side.
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding | Django Web Development | Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill | Caktus Consulting Group
Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural hopes to help rural newspapers in North Carolina leverage OpenBlock.
GitHub - Social Coding
by rmaltete & 1 other
Git is an extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.
Limited Edition Rickshaw - Anthropologie.com
too bad!We're sorry. This product is no longer available. DETAILS While on a trip to India, some of our team flagged down a rickshaw for a spur-of-the-moment tour of the town. Inspired by the ride and feeling a bit whimsical, we decided to design our own set of wheels, with some very special touches like a collapsible kantha-fabric canopy, handlebar streamers, a bell for brrring-bringing on the bike path and even a headlight that illuminates when the pedals are cranked. An instant conversation starter on the road or on display, we'll bet you're whisked away on the adventure of a lifetime once you hop on - or into - our quixotic carriage. No two are exactly alike.
