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January 2012

WordPress custom taxonomies extra fields - Bainternet

by srcmax
As promised in how to – WordPress Category Extra Fields to explain how to add extra fields to WordPress Custom taxonomies I’m posting this after getting a few requests and question about it.

November 2011

Techniques in responsive web design | Webdesigner Depot

by Monique

The techniques in this article explain how we can leverage this powerful capability of CSS to also change imagery, alter the navigation on hand-held devices, and set up default CSS for compatibility older browsers.

October 2011

Paris, Je t’aime | Garance Doré

by karlcow

Let me explain why and how this happened. Years ago an Italian writer wrote a book (not a great book), a story about teenagers, love and death. A scene in this book described two lovers who hooked a lock at Ponte Milvio, in Rome, in the name of their love. Since the book began very famous in Italy among teenagers, all lovers (all teenagers) began to hook their lockets on every bridge, everywhere in Italy: in Florence they began on Ponte Vecchio as well, wasting the beauty of the Art. It’s very difficult remove them, in fact. I hope this stupid behaviour will stop soon, but as I can see it’s common also in France now. It’s epidemic.

Budo Blog: Self defense is multi faceted

by Takwann
The Multi Dimensional Paradigms of Self-Defense is a model that describes a person’s overall view of the universe self-defense. Everyone’s viewpoint is different, but viewpoints can still be categorized in groups. The MDP model helps explain the basic differences in viewpoints. It provides people a framework to expand and evolve their self-defense paradigm into one with a more comprehensive viewpoint.

16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake - Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine

by karlcow & 1 other

In this article, I’ll explain why 16 pixels should generally be the minimum size for body copy in modern Web design.

June 2011

samples - websocket-sample - Explain how to install sample codes and how to use these. - sample code and tips for websockets(pywebsocket) - Google Project Hosting

by karlcow
<blockquote><p>Under http (request & response model), it is hard to send request message while waiting for response messages. Http also has http pipeline technique, but it is difficult to use via browser (for example, firefox requires conifguration via about:config with alert message:p). As a result, it requires long waiting time for users. </p></blockquote> parce-que n'était pas foutu d'implémenter HTTP pipelining, les utilisateurs contournent en utilisant websocket… décidément.

Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil By Donald Thomas

by jenny82
The Case of the Zimmermann Telegram, the author uses Holmes to explain the events that led to the exposure of the telegram transmitted by the German Foreign Office through the US diplomatic pouch as a courtesy and then sent by commercial telegraph service to the German Counsel in Mexico City.

May 2011

Make a time-lapse video | Video | Macworld Video | Macworld

by oseres (via)
In this week’s video, I discuss time lapse video, those fast-moving videos that convert hours and days of activity into minutes and seconds of video. I explain two ways of creating such videos, one easy and free, the other more complicated and time consuming (guess which method I’ve been using).

OSS Watch - Best practice in release management for open source projects

by Spone
Release management is about managing the process of building, packaging and distributing software for consumption. In release management in open source projects we explain the process of release management in open source software projects. In this document we will focus on some of the best practices in release management and will supply a checklist to help you define and streamline your project's release management process.

April 2011

A tale of two viewports — part two

by srcmax
In this mini-series I will explain how viewports and the widths of various important elements work, such as the html element, as well as the window and the screen.

February 2011

December 2010

LRB · Eliot Weinberger · ‘Damn right,’ I said

by jeanruaud
Occasionally, someone on Team DP will insert a lyrical phrase – the tears on the begrimed faces of the 9/11 relief workers ‘cutting a path through the soot like rivulets through a desert’ – but most of the prose sounds like this: I told Margaret and Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Bolten that I considered this a far-reaching decision. I laid out a process for making it. I would clarify my guiding principles, listen to experts on all sides of the debate, reach a tentative conclusion, and run it past knowledgeable people. After finalising a decision, I would explain it to the American people. Finally, I would set up a process to ensure that my policy was implemented. There are nearly 500 pages of this, reminiscent of the current po-mo poster boys, Tao Lin, with his anaesthetised declarative sentences, and Kenneth Goldsmith with his ‘uncreative writing’, such as a transcription of a year’s worth of daily radio weather reports. Foucault notes: ‘Today’s writing has freed itself from the theme of expression.’

The philosophical underpinnings of David Foster Wallace's fiction. - By James Ryerson - Slate Magazine

by jeanruaud
When the future novelist David Foster Wallace was about 14 years old, he asked his father, the University of Illinois philosophy professor James D. Wallace, to explain to him what philosophy is, so that when people would ask him exactly what it was that his father did, he could give them an answer. James had the two of them read Plato's Phaedo dialogue together, an experience that turned out to be pivotal in his understanding of his son. "I had never had an undergraduate student who caught on so quickly or who responded with such maturity and sophistication," James recalls. "This was this first time I realized what a phenomenal mind David had."

The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain what went wrong - (37signals)

by karlcow

“My new mantra is: ‘I will make a product that people want to pay for and that they will be happy to pay for.’ I wake up in the morning and I say that. And I go to sleep at night and say that. It really changes everything.”

November 2010

Privacy and the User Experience

by karlcow

It never ceases to amaze me how we web designers — who would never trust a web host that doesn’t explain how it stores our sensitive data (user records, registration information, etc.) — are so quick to ask our own users to hand everything over with a mere "Trust me!"

How to Make a Screencast for Your Website | Webdesigner Depot

by oseres (via)
Having a video on your website can vastly improve your conversion rate. Whether the goal is for users to sign up for your web application or simply to get users to contact you via a web form, a video improves the likelihood of this happening. You need only go to the home page of any new Internet-based startup, and you’ll see an embedded video with a very large call to action beckoning you to play its two- or three-minute video introduction. Videos that demonstrate web applications or web-based services are often called screencasts because they usually capture events on the company’s website. These screencasts can sum up in just two minutes what might otherwise take up many pages to explain, so they make for powerful additions to websites. Is it easy to make a screencast? How much does it cost, and what tools are required? Let’s answer these questions.

October 2010

August 2010

Tutorial: Introduction to Mozmill - MDC

by karlcow

Let's write a simple Mozmill test to explain how each part of the Mozmill tool and API works.

Zhan Zhuang - foundation of Internal Martial Arts

by Takwann
by Karel Koskuba Most Internal Martial Arts use some form of standing practice as foundation training (and Taijiquan is no exception in this regard). These standing exercises are usually called Zhan Zhuang (pole standing); sometimes they are called 'standing Qigong'. I think it's fair to say that most students are baffled by them. They are supposed to be good for you but most students find them difficult to understand, boring and painful. Yet they are supposed to relax you and help you to 'accumulate Qi'. In this article I shall try to outline my theory that should explain, from western perspective, why these exercises are so important both for Internal Martial Arts and Qigong, how this western view correlates with the traditional Qi view and give training advice on how to practice them. In writing this article I have drawn upon my experience from Taijiquan, Yiquan and information from medical postural rehabilitation research and sports science.

July 2010

Southampton ECS Web Team › ECS Infrastructure RDF in the Public Domain

by karlcow

Another mistake we have learned from is that we made a huge effort to correctly model and describe our data as semantically accurately as possible. Nobody cares enough about our data to explain to their tool what an “ECS Person” is. We’re in the process of adding in the more generic schemes like FOAF and SIOC etc.

faire des choses simples.

June 2010

Semantic web user interfaces - Do they have to be ugly?

by Xavier Lacot
A presentation which explains how semweb people should work to create more user-friendly tools. There is a common dream about the semantic web : it should help develop omnipotent applications. Instead of this, the author explain that developers should concentrate on creating useful software, using semweb technologies. Meaningful.

The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » A Manifesto for Sustainable Web Development

by karlcow

karl says:

June 3, 2010 at 10:50 pm

Sustainable Web Development can mean many things. I agree with most of the point made here. But it also depends on the layer you are looking at. You are looking at the business layer and makes your points valid for almost any kind of business. These are not specific to the Web.

For developing a sustainable Web, people have to understand the Web first (Information space driven by HTTP and URI). That is a big challenge. hmm Big nope. Huge ;)

Sustainable means creating an ecosystem which has an equilibrium, that you do not destroy at each iteration. My 2010 hated word goes to « refonte » in RFPs. It explains a lot why people do not get the Web and why we do not have a sustainable Web.

I’m still in thinking to try to come up with a good document on how to explain a sustainable Web. Maybe a beer would be better with Olivier, Sylvain and you. ;)

May 2010

Daring Fireball Linked List: Scribd in HTML5

by night.kame

Using their new HTML5 document presentation technology to explain their new HTML5 document presentation technology.

C'est dommage que 1) ça ne soit pas du HTML 5, 2) ça ne fonctionne pas sous Opera.

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