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Use Strawpoll on Twitter
via Twitter Blog by Biz on February 20, 2008
This new Twitter application called StrawPoll is really neat. Follow strawpoll on Twitter and every day around 8am EST it will ask you a simple question. Reply with your answer and the pretty graph on the front page will get updated so you can see the results of everyone who is participating.
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Which button would you click? A lesson on website optimization
via Google Analytics Blog by lm on April 29, 2008
Start Now, Begin, or Get Started? Orange or blue button? What color text? Does it matter?Website optimization seemed to be the hot topic at SES New York this year. Everywhere we turned, speakers were discussing how small changes in website content can result in big differences in traffic patterns.Before we suggest a strategy for optimizing your website, let's make sure we're all on the...
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C-Shirt: Remixable T-shirts by Mobile Phone
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on June 03, 2008
Japanese media-wiki company Nota offers a service called C-Shirt, a fascinating combination of technologies and concepts unlike anything we've seen before. The company sells t-shirts like Threadless or scads of other online vendors, but with a serious twist.It's a t-shirt, but with a mobile scannable code, wiki-like editing and a CreativeCommons license.How it WorksC-Shirt shirts each...
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Flyback Updates with Better Interface, Easier Scheduling [Featured Linux Download]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 19, 2008
Linux only: Flyback, the previously mentioned Linux backup utility that aims to mimic Mac OS X Leopard's Time Machine for set-and-forget usability, has a cutting-edge 0.5 version available in its Subversion repository that adds a good number of great things. Choosing what to back up, which external drive or server to place it on, and when exactly to do it, is a lot easier to grasp for those...
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YUI 2.5.0 Released — Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more
via Yahoo! User Interface Blog by Eric Miraglia on February 19, 2008
The YUI Team just released version 2.5.0 of the library. We’ve added six new components — Layout Manager, Uploader (multi-file upload engine combining Flash and JavaScript), Resize Utility, ImageCropper, Cookie Utility and a ProfilerViewer Control that works in tandem with the YUI Profiler. This release also contains major improvements to the DataTable Control and new Dual-Thumb Slider...
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Google Maps Without the Scripting
via Official Google Maps API Blog by Tom Manshreck on February 20, 2008
... requires some overhead to maintain a dynamic website.The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the fly via simple requests to the Static Maps service with HTTP requests. No JavaScript, no overhead. Just create a special URL as the src attribute within an
tag and let the S...
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URLs are People, Too
via Google Code Blog by DeWitt Clinton on January 31, 2008
By Brad Fitzpatrick, Software EngineerSo you've just built a totally sweet new social app and you can't wait for people to start using it, but there's a problem: when people join they don't have any friends on your site. They're lonely, and the experience isn't good because they can't use the app with people they know. You could ask them to search for and add all their...
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TwitterLove: Applying the Social Graph API
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on February 17, 2008
Want to visualize someone’s “following” list on Twitter? Thanks to this creative application of the Google Social Graph API you can. Even though Social Graph API was just released a couple weeks ago it didn’t take long before creative developers began seeing ways to put it to use. And as you can see in our TwitterLove profile the application uses 2 other APIs including the Twitter API to...
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Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 01, 2008
Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the layout, numerous classes as well as the color scheme you’ve used in the project. In CSS-files sensible structuring can drastically reduce complexity, improve code management and consequently simplify maintainability. However, how can you achieve sensible structuring? Well, there are a number of options. For...
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Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin for Rails
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on January 22, 2008
Martin Rehfeld has released a Rails plugin that generates Ext JS scaffoldsThe Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin provides a custom MIME type alias :ext_json to be able to handle requests from the Ext frontend separately. The generated controllers show how to do this.To make data delivery to the Ext frontend easy, the plugin extends the Array and ActiveRecord::Base classes to provide a to_ext_json...
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