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December 2009
November 2009
scraplab — The Scruffying of Print
by karlcow
So you design things with high tolerances and gentle failure modes which still look OK when everything isn’t quite as expected.
This is something that print is going to have to get used to. Slightly messier, with a few more bad line breaks and unbalanced columns.
October 2009
Top reasons your CSS columns are messed up - Warpspire
by mozkart
& 1 other
(via)
I believe the recent surge in popularity of CSS frameworks comes from a lack of basic understanding of the CSS box model and how it’s implemented across browsers. I wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls so you can create your own CSS framework in no time flat, without all the cruft of having ten thousand column combinations available. Keeping these quick tips in mind at all times will allow you to do something I like to call defensive coding — and really that’s all CSS frameworks are: defensively coded snippets of CSS.
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
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September 2009
August 2009
Blind Search
by rax262
& 3 others
(via)
BlindSearch, the search engine taste test.
Type in a search query above, hit search then vote for the column which you believe best matches your query. The columns are randomised with every query.
July 2009
unblab: Brief Email for Busy People
by ycc2106
like the divided columns of a newspaper, Box View allows you to scan for what's important. In addition, zooming and infinite scrolling make reading through email faster than ever.
960 Grid System
by karlcow
& 20 others
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem
Variable Grid System :: SprySoft :: Cardiff based website design & development
by karlcow
& 3 others
The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.
29/06/09 Update: Added new push_xx, pull_xx classes to css generator to allow re-ordering of columns.
June 2009
Official Google Blog: Square your search results with Google Squared
by srcmax
(via)
Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet. If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several specific roller coasters and columns for corresponding facts, such as image, height and maximum speed.
May 2009
Visual Representation of Tabular Information - How to Fix the Uncommunicative Table | FlowingData
by karlcow
& 1 other
explication pour créer des tableaux en formes circulaires. Bonne explication, mauvais examplesThe method presented here provides an alternative to mitigate the problems outlined above. It is a visual approach that uses Circos[http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos] to represent rows and columns in a circular fashion, and ribbons to represent cell values. Does it solve every table's problems? No. It does provide, however, a way to capture the essence of the table and present it quantitatively and attractively.
April 2009
Multi-Column Results - Splits Google search results - Download
by decembre
Multi-Column ResultsSplits Google search results into multiple columns. It’ll be incredibly useful if you’re on a wide screen monitor. Alt+1/2/3 keys can be used to switch between one, two and three column views.
960 Grid System
by gregg
& 20 others
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem
March 2009
February 2009
Don't get depressed: A writer's guide to surviving the recession | Books | guardian.co.uk
by karlcow
7.Ignore advice columns.
