interactive development & discussion
Google now lets you visit the rainforest just like you look at driving directions in town.
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Tour the Amazon with Google Street View; No Passport Needed
Google Street View launched in 2007, giving web users the ability to tour neighborhoods with a series of 360° panoramic maps.
I'm excited to hear what Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers have to say about all of the new gaming-related facets of Flash and the future roadmap of Flash. I'll share what I learn, but you should go register too.
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leebrimelow.com » We’re coming to Seattle, Denver, Vegas, Tempe, Nashville, Atlanta, St.Paul, and NYC!
I'm excited to announce that I will be visiting user groups and/or agencies in Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Tempe, Nashville, Atlanta, St. Paul, and New York City over the next month. I will be joi…
Free National Park week coming up April 21-29!
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2012 National Park Week Offers Free Admission National Parks
A review of which U.S. national parks offer free admission as part of National Park Week for the 2012 dates in April.
Here's a great little line of code to put into your wp theme's functions php file: add_filter('jpeg_quality', function($arg){return 100;});
This will make the jpg compression quality full so degradation will be minimal.
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Change the Default WordPress Thumbnail JPG Compression Quality – Inspect Element
Quick question for WordPressers: Does the WP featured image functionality degrade the image at all?— Orman Clark (@ormanclark) March 21, 2012 A
Easy posting and sharing for the win!
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The Google+ musings of Daniel Treadwell
Google+ Blog Concept – Daniel Treadwell. View your Google+ Posts in the form of a clean and simple blog. Also home of the Google+Blog WordPress plugin.
I wouldn't recommend you use it as is, but it's a great wat to get in to see the exact example or snippet you're looking for.
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Comprehensive WordPress Query Reference – Inspect Element
Excellent WordPress query reference by Mark Luetke.I could have done with this the other day when I was getting frustrated with a query!
Rememeber Mavis Bacon? This is an actual fun way to improve your typist skills. Space invaders + typing = Z-Type!
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Link: Z-Type – an R-Type style typing game
Everyone loves old school arcade games (if they say they don’t, they’re probably lying). The only real problem with them is that unless you’re Billy Mitchell it’s quite difficult to get away with finding an excuse to play them for as long as you’d like to. Z-Type comes to the rescue. It’s a very addictive space shoot-em-up where you destroy the bad guys by learning to type. That’s a pretty cool way to learn! The game is written using the impact.js game library (costing $99) which takes care o…
This one does seem to have a lot of integration built in, which is a big plus, jigoshop, bbpress, buddypress, responsive…
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Fanwood Theme Preview and Release Date
A couple of days ago, I posted about a new theme I'm working on. Today, I finally have something to show and announce. The following is a partial preview. Screenshots were taken from several live …
They're always telling me the web needs more monster trucks!
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Monster desert trucking
Another amazing piece of work from OutsideOfSociety. Honestly, I think sometimes we should just automatically draw in new pages on his site and apply some gushing comments. It’d save us all a lot of effort. This time, he’s made a simple monster truck game in WebGL where you drive around the sand dunes picking up stars. It’s incredibly playable and fun, with gorgeous details like sand particles and lens flare. It’s built with three.js and seems to include some physics code from Bartek Drozdz (…
open sourcing Gridpak – yet another resposive tool
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Responsive design: stories from the coalface | Erskine Labs
A blog by the folks at Erskine Design
