Here's a great case study about an app that sounds very impressive. It could have done decently on it's own merits, you say? This article describes how it was beneficial and even crucial for them to market the app to make it newsworthy, relative and successful. Some great marketing ideas here. Embedded Link The Art [...]
I'm liking Ryan's initiative to make PhoneGap Build documentation and workflow updated, bug-free and more streamlined. I've been using PhoneGap and phoneGap Build more and more and I've really been enjoying how simple it makes the process. I'm all for making it better still and think it will be hugely useful! Embedded Link The PhoneGap [...]
The visuals for the game are great and the concept a familiar one. You control the angle and power of your canon and try to destroy your opponent. This great execution of this fun game uses a few new js libraries: Box2d, SoundJS, and Easel. Luxurious Animals, the agency behind it, has even blogged a [...]
Here's a few nice use cases and even examples for how to put this pseudo selector to work in your css projects. I normally prefer to use javascript for this sort of interaction, but CSS has it's uses as well. Embedded Link On :target | CSS-Tricks The :target pseudo selector in CSS is both pretty [...]
Some helpful WordPress Security tips via htaccess Embedded Link Protect your WordPress site with .htaccess | Tutorial | .net magazine WordPress is the world’s most popular CMS with over 70 million users, but how safe is your install? Paul Maloney shows you how to secure your WordPress site with .htaccess.
I've wanted to solve this issue a couple times but usually ended up faking it once I realized how complex the math was going to be. Here is the proof, I'm pretty sure I never would have med it this far had I tried. It's a great resource and I found it understandable too. So, [...]
Can't help but think about flocking behavior and different physics issues I've programmed when I look at things like this. It's really interesting to watch the current change over time as well. Then think about the currents at different dimensions of the ocean knowing that they may be crossing currents at different depths. Embedded Link [...]
Here's a huge list of icon fonts as well as a great example with code on how to use it. I think the whole icon font is awesome and love that it's scalable and lightweight (at least lighter than loading all those images). Embedded Link Flat Icons & Icon Fonts | CSS-Tricks There are many [...]
Web apps and native apps are different ends with the same mean, but they have different characteristics. I'm always a fan of the web and accessibility, but also enjoy a nicely designed app when it's useful. Here's a good thought about how Web apps are stacking up vs Native Apps and some hopeful forecasting. Embedded [...]
very nicely done game. Strong nostalgic feelings from zelda on snes. Amazing the things that html5 can do with some serious javascripting. Embedded Link BrowserQuest – massively multiplayer fun There's buzz aplenty across the interwebs with the launch of this new Mozilla game experiment: BrowserQuest. Summarised by Paul Roug
Proposals in the works for new media queries specific to touch enabled devices. Examples include pointer, which will differentiate wether the device has a fine or coarse pointer (finger vs mouse) and hover, which would say if the device supports hover states. I can see this being helpful and useful for building mobile friendly sites [...]
Jason explains the root of the problem and why no one has been able to devise a solution that makes everyone happy yet. The browsers (in their awesome drive to make browsing faster) are prefetching images and developers want to only use one image based on criteria the browser doesn't know until the layout is [...]
This post on creativejs picks apart how this doodlue was made. Nice they they are able to support HTML5 audio even if it is only supported on chrome and the rest fall back to – you guessed it – flash. Embedded Link Google Moog synth tear-down Yesterday we featured Google's web-based analogue synth Moog tribute [...]
Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today Embedded Link Moog 自分のオリジナル曲を創って、 #moogdoodle で共有しよう。
New additions to the plugin directory include: favorites, incorporating support forums into it's own tab for each plugin as well as support stats being displayed! Great! I think we also need the ability to give plugins ratings and reviews (bonus points if it can be done from within a wordpress admin dashboard when installing plugins). [...]
Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to [...]
Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working [...]
A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version [...]
I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too. [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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