Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web - igvita.com
The web is evolving. After a few years of iteration the WebSockets spec is finally here (RFC 6455), and as of late 2011 both Chrome and Firefox are SPDY capable. These additions are much more than just “enhancing AJAX”, as we now have true real-time communication in the browser: stream multiplexing, flow control, framing, and significant latency and performance improvements. Now, we just need to drag our “back office” - our web frontends, app servers, and everything in between into this century to enable us to take advantage of these new capabilities.
Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory
There are currently 404 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look. Below are examples of these typefaces in action. Click the examples to get the typeface from the Google web fonts directory.
How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in 1 Month
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Guzzle | PHP HTTP client and framework for consuming RESTful web services
Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client & framework for building RESTful web service clients.
Just uploaded 2 new photo(s) on Flickr. http://bit.ly/tTvTnn
swissted
swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.
PxLoader | A Simple JavasScript Preloader
PxLoader is a Javascript library that helps you download images, sound files or anything else you need before you take a specific action on your site (like showing a user interface or starting a game). You can use it to create a preloader for HTML5 games and websites.
Introducing the Backbone Boilerplate – Bocoup Web Log
Over the past year Bocoup has worked on several production applications that utilize the MVC library Backbone.js. We’ve worked hard to give back to the community through informative blog posts, core contributions, support & evangelism through various mediums such as meetups, IRC and Twitter. Over the course of the past year, we created small boilerplates to share around the office and across projects. I recently began to organize this work into a canonical boilerplate for Backbone. Today, I’d like to introduce our Backbone Boilerplate:
