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October 2009
Creating Offline Web Applicat...
by oseres
Creating Offline Web Applications With Dojo Offline
by Brad Neuberg (SitePen), September 23rd, 2007
This tutorial steps you through creating offline web applications using Dojo Offline.
What is Dojo Offline?
Dojo Offline is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy to create sophisticated, offline web applications. It sits on top of Google Gears, a plugin from Google that helps extend web browsers with new functionality. Dojo Offline makes working with Google Gears easier; extends it with important functionality; creates a higher-level API than Google Gears provides; and exposes developer productivity features. In particular, Dojo Offline provides the following functionality:
An offline widget that you can easily embed in your web page with just a few lines of code, automatically providing the user with network feedback, sync messages, offline instructions, and more
A sync framework to help you store actions done while offline and sync them with a server once back on the network
Automatic network and application-availability detection to determine when your application is on- or off-line so that you can take appropriate action
A slurp() method that automatically scans the page and figures out all the resources that you need offline, including images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.; this is much easier than having to manually maintain which resources should be available offline, especially during development.
Dojo Storage, an easy to use hashtable abstraction for storing offline data for when you don't need the heaviness of Google Gear's SQL abstraction; under the covers Dojo Storage saves its data into Google Gears
Dojo SQL, an easy to use SQL layer that executes SQL statements and returns them as ordinary JavaScript objects
New ENCRYPT() and DECRYPT() SQL keywords that you can mix in when using Dojo SQL, to get transparent cryptography for columns of data. Cryptography is done on a Google Worker Pool thread, so that the browser UI is responsive.
Integration with the rest of Dojo, such as the Dojo Event system
RDFa Primer
by parmentierf
Consider Alice, a blogger who publishes a mix of professional and personal articles at http://example.com/alice. We will construct markup examples to illustrate how Alice can use RDFa
September 2009
but does it float
by karlcow
Oskar Fischinger (22 June 1900, Gelnhausen, Germany — 31 January 1967, Los Angeles) was an abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. His animated films that were partly influenced by the poetic abstraction of Kandinsky’s paintings were among the first to mix high art and mass culture.
R.I.P. Grandmaster Roc Raida Tribute Mix
by marco
1 comment
Ohlala, comme il démonte son "Premier's Xecution" ! Le mix dégomme tout !!!
fresh good minimal » Boru mix for FGM
by znarf
Boru: Abia re-aterizata la Berlin dupa o vara intensa, bucuresteana am primit “comanda” unui mix pentru FGM. M-am simiti onorata si m-am pus pe treaba. Trebuie sa recunosc ca nu imi prea place sa mixez in pijama in sufragerie ci mai degraba in cluburi dar oricum ar fi prejudecata mea: pijama vs clubbing, am dat curs provocarii . Si asta a iesit. Acum las pe altii sa judece daca este “pijama” sau “clubbing”.
Big Ideas (don't get any) on Vimeo
by karlcow
Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
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August 2009
keybr.com - take typing speed test and practice typing online
by oseres
& 3 others
Have you ever wished that you had a way to practice typing so that you could become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the “speed of thought,” perhaps? Enter Keybr.com — the flash–based typing instructor you’ve been waiting for!
Keybr.com is very straightforward. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words–per–minute (wpm) — and even creates graphs of your day–by–day performance.
But, things get even better! Once you have determined that the lessons you have completed have reached their maximum result, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit and personalize the text that you wish to practice! Very bare–bones, but oh, so functional.
Finally, to up the entertainment level of your typing lessons, you can import content from a web site or blog into Keybr.com to type it out.
But why even bother to learn touch typing? The answer is simple — it is healthier for you, faster and more accurate. Blogging, writing long documents and e–mails, instant messaging with your friends, and even coding sophisticated computer programs will become much easier and more enjoyable once you eliminate distraction of hunt–and–peck typing.
If you are curious about how touch typing appears to onlookers, please watch a couple of short YouTube videos demonstrating really high typing speed:
Blog Out Loud >> Connecting Through Creative Blogging
by blackgoldfish
(via)
love this mix of colors
SCINTILLATION on Vimeo
by karlcow
This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques.
July 2009
Mashup Five Ubuntu-Art.org
by tadeufilippini
Description:
Mashup is a revolution in quality icons derived from various sources, like a mix tape. The collection is aesthetic and designed to be professional, functional, balanced, and diverse. Its the first icon set to have built in use of the theme menu for custom usage. Just choose the Mashup 1-5 set you want to use. Includes a mix of my custom icons & code, Aero, Oxygen, Glass, and Crystal icons.
Features:
* Five distinct available folder variations and customisations.
* Change your theme with the Appearance Menu.
* Contains Gnomes full range of Apps & Actions.
* Up to date with cutting edge icons.
* Compatible with Gnome 2.0 releases.
License: Creative Commons No Derivatives - Free to use and copy unmodified, may not modify or redistribute any portion therein. Any pictures or photography are not to be used. The name Mashup is registered ® to Billy Butler 2009.
Follow my Twitter - jesterthejedi
Inside Out
by Sarcomical
this one's a very new discovery for me, and i like to look through the blog section especially. their description says it best:
"Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression, our aim is to promote creativity for self-development through the publication of a diverse mix of artistic work, all with a focus on self-awareness and self-help. Why? Because we believe that sometimes simply owning something on the page is all it takes to move past it and move on, for both reader and creator."
FeedMingle
by keusta
& 2 others
mix all your feeds into one and produce as u need : RSS, Atom & JSON
June 2009
adidas Menâs Blindside 5 Basketball Shoe
by jk4net
Review
Where else but the court can you find brute force and graceful precision at the same time? Blindside's got the cushion and control to help you pull it off.One of the core brand values of adidas
is innovation. As a result, their products include some of the most innovative technologies in the industry today. The following technologies featured in this shoe will help you find the
basketball shoe that is perfect for you. Non-marking outsoleSports on an indoor surface require movements from side-to-side as well as forward and backwards. The athlete wants to move in all
directions quickly and with control. The rubber outsole mix has to allow for quick reactions, jumping, sprinting and lateral movements. adidas outsole materials used for indoor surfaces are
always non-marking, i.e. they do not leave any marks or stripes on the floor while ensuring great durability.
Where else but the court can you find brute force and graceful precision at the same time? Blindside's (more…)
First Look: Apple Stays Ahead of the Curve With iPhone 3.0 OS | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
by night.kame
(via)
Apple Stays Ahead of the Curve With iPhone 3.0 OS
C'est marrant, le contenu de l'article on dirait un mix de l'évolution de Palm OS entre 1998 et 2002. On va appeler ça l'avance dans le retard.
Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity
by sbrothier
& 2 others
I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe.
On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down their throats and waited to give them the go-ahead to regurgitate it on their blogs, using the same screenshots, same content, and differing only in the pithiness of their post titles.
Spezify
by gregg
& 2 others
Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.
We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.
We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.
YouTube - miniature city 2 -featuring vividblaze "tight rope (floor mix)"-
by fastclemmy
(via)
Awesome japanese video with a nice tiltshifting effect.
Webséries en série (la suite) :
by srcmax
Canal+ et Capa ont lancé en exclusivité la web-série Braquo, les coulisses. Ce programme, réalisé par Sacha Chelli, montre chaque semaine l’univers d’Olivier Marchal et propose alors de découvrir la création d’une série en France, de l’écriture au mix final, en passant par les repérages, le casting…
May 2009
Daring Fireball Linked List: Bruce Lawson Interviews Ian Hickson, Editor of the HTML 5 Specification
by night.kame
I’m just a spectator, albeit a very interested one, but I have long thought that Hickson possesses just the right mix of pragmatism and idealism for this job.
Sauf que le pragmatisme 2.0 ressemble bigrement à de l'infantilisme.
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project
by xibe
& 1 other
In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls.
The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
Glimmer - Lab - MIX Online
by gregg
Want to use jQuery to enhance the experience of your site?
Don’t want to write or cannibalize a bunch of code?
With Glimmer, easily create interactive experiences like rotating photo-galleries/mastheads,drop-down navigation, hover effects, or custom animations.
April 2009
Touch Mix ∞ precious forever
by sbrothier
Interaction and interface design for an iPhone music mixing app
