interactive development & discussion
Some new stats from Brazil and Australia showing promising results from the new opt-out rather than opt-in to IE updates windows started this year. Excited for this to spread worldwide and watch the industry as a whole officially drop IE6 and IE7!
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The Skinny on IE’s Update Policy « Paul Irish
The Skinny on IE’s Update Policy
A great insightful update into the future of jQuery and 1.9 vs 2.0 due next year which should be essentially the same but 2.0 will drop support for old IE (meaning ie6, ie7 and even ie8). So it should be much smaller and more effecient. Developers will choose wether they need ie support and will use 1.9, and those who are alive will use 2.0.
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jQuery Blog » jQuery Core: Version 1.9 and Beyond
As the last blog post discussed, jQuery version 1.8 is undergoing a spring cleaning to remove insecure, inefficient, ineffective, and inadvisable features. We've also begun the work to allow you to bu…
This proposal is a great idea to clarify the confusion for new users between posts vs pages in wordpress. It takes a few minutes to explain the difference every time, and this proposed navigation change helps this understanding come intuitively. I also think this would go a long way from separating the 'post' term from the blog. Since we now have custom posts and a 'post' can be anything. The default post type for posts is really a blog post type, so why not call it blog? I support this and if you do to then comment in!
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Proposing Navigation Changes
I just made a ticket on Trac with a proposal to address navigation in the WordPress dashboard. Here is the description. Explaining the difference between Posts and Pages to new users is time consum……
Don't let your devices and connections rule you. Take a break. I've enjoyed coming home to my family everyday and not need instant email updates, but having physical tangible contact with those I love. I love the advice from Eric Schmidt in this article to unplug for at least 1 hour everyday. Society really seems addicted to tech and are losing depth, wisdom and understanding. Funny to hear that coming from someone who depends on the internet as much as I do. But I'm confident I could be happy disconnected, making a living is another matter… Depend on technology, but don't let it rule you.
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MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice | Could You Live a Pre-Internet Life?
Does technology rule your life? Read how society is taking hyperconnectivity to the next level, prompting some to completely unplug.
I'm always a sucker for music/audio visualizations and this one is really well done. There are many options for tweaking and you can view the changes live as you listen to the tunes.
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Spectrascade: WebGL music viz
Spectrascade is an interactive, tunable WebGL music visualisation project that takes inspiration from both HelloEnjoy's Lights, and the
Some great notes and links about workflow. I think the workflow for building a website is something that should be discussed more around the web. We get excited and talk a lot about the tiny details, like vendor-prefixes and preprocessors and git and even sometimes deployment. I'm a big picture person and seeing a whole process from beginning to end helps visualize how everything fits together. I'm currently working on documenting SOP for websites, and the docs seem to grow endlessly. You never realize how many different facets web designers are expected and even need to be expert in just to make a competent website these days. Thanks for sharing the notes Chris, sounds like a great workshop.
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Notes from my "Web Designer's Workflow" Workshop at Interlink 2012 | CSS-Tricks
A bunch of notes from a workshop I just did in Vancouver, Canada at the Interlink conference.
The Scale of the Universe 2 created by Cary Huang, a 14-year old ninth grader from California. View the relative scale of things… Perspective is everything.
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The Scale of the Universe 2
Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn about everything in between.
This update to Remote Procedure Calls in WordPress is a great improvement that I've been waiting for, and I'm glad to see it coming. 3.4 is scheduled for release next week!
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XML-RPC in WordPress 3.4 – Max Cutler
WordPress 3.4 has finally hit beta! Since full changelog/release notes are not yet available, I want to recap the improvements in XML-RPC functionality for this release here. New Methods. The most sig…
Here's a spotlight on some of the updates (and potential issues) to Thematic recently moving the Theme from 0.9.7.7 to 1.0.1 in the official wordpress theme repo. Showcasing better loading of scripts and styles and moving to wordpress standards rather than thematic standards in a number of places.
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Improved Script and Style Loading in Thematic 1.0
After a long wait, Thematic 1.0.1 has been live in the WordPress repositories now for a couple of days now! Thematic 1.0 underwent some major changes to be compliant with WordPress Theme Review Guidel…
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Car Alarm Symphony | Improv Everywhere
(View it larger on YouTube) | Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Produced by Charlie Todd and Matt Adams / Music by Tyler Walker. For our latest mission, we made 100 car alarms go off simultaneously in…
