February 2010
35 posts
hurl →
Hurl makes HTTP requests.
CKEditor - WYSIWYG Text and HTML Editor for the... →
Home - MongoDB - 10gen Confluence →
MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Written in C++, MongoDB features:
assertTrue( ): NoSQL Required Reading →
If you’re new to NoSQL, you’ll want to do a bit of background reading. I’ll keep this quick and limit my recommendations to just the essentials:
HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved « Bits and Bytes. →
Riak - A Decentralized, Internet-Scale Data Store →
Riak combines a decentralized key-value store, a flexible map/reduce engine, and a friendly HTTP/JSON query interface to provide a database ideally suited for Web applications.
Professional Screencast Tutorials for Web... →
CodeIgniter Library: 77 Free Scripts, Addons,... →
CodeIgniter is fixin’ to blow up even more with the release of ExpressionEngine 2.0, currently in Beta, which is built on top of the CodeIgniter framework. Sounds great and all, but ExpressionEngine…
my mom said that there would be days like this…
The Apache Cassandra Project →
A highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.
Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces | Webdesigner... →
Web Apps are popping up everywhere. Five years or so ago, we could live without them, but as the internet has evolved we use them more and more in our daily lives. We have put together a great…
see[Mike]code - Conduct a short coding interview,... →
Conduct a short coding interview, remotely, at seemikecode.com
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky →
Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you…
Exceptionally Useful Free Handwritten... →
For quite some time companies and governments have been working hard to make daily life things available as digital services in whatever way possible. At the same time most communication is handled…
comcast internet has been so flaky - help me now!
10 Useful Google Spreadsheet Formulas You Must... →
Google Spreadsheet is a powerful and free tool to manage complex spreadsheets. This tutorial illustrates ten useful formulas you must know to help you simplify the way you work in Google Spreadsheet.
50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual... →
Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers…
Clients From Hell →
A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
Dr. Dobb's | Amazon SimpleDB: A Simple Way to... →
Amazon SimpleDB: A Simple Way to Store Complex Data
is liking the meebo iPhone app. Go check it out!
Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File... →
This tutorial will teach you how correct and produce a single RAW image into an HDR-like masterpiece using only Lightroom! That’s right, Photoshop skills are not even needed for this tutorial.
At firefly in SF with @anaberle for our valentine’s day dinner. Stuffed, but room for desert!
congrats Natalie and Craig! We had an awesome time! Looking forward to seeing you guys soon - have fun on the mini-moon
Record Tripping - A Bell Brothers Game →
Top 10: Timeless Exercises - AskMen.com →
If you’re like most men, you’ve been sold this crap before. In reality, this “workout tip” would just be another circus trick promoted by someone who has no idea how the body functions and who has a…
The Food Lab: In Search of the Best Oven-Fried... →
David DeSandro: jQuery Masonry →
Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then…
Bicycle Built for Two Thousand →
gMap - Google Maps Plugin For jQuery | About →
gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.
5 Examples of Beautiful Resume/CV Templates |... →
Did you know that we recently launched a new sub-category on ThemeForest, specifically for resumes/CVs optimized for the web? It’s becoming more and more common for potential employers to simply…
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of... →
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to…
Retro-Modern Tarantino Movie Posters (8 total) -... →
There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing movie posters remade by modern artists. The best ones, I believe, are the posters where the artist has put his or her own unique spin on them, giving us that…
I checked in at Taqueria Los Pericos (7473 Village Pkwy) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/9yKm2S
SPCA with Taco. Hope he isn’t biting anyone right now.
Great time in Vegas! Congrats Rita and Shawn! We’re gonna need this week to recover.