Some neat stuff here - so many plugins: 45 Fresh Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Tools - Smashing Magazine 17 jQuery Plugins for Easy and Efficient Reordering and Filtering Page Elements | tripwire magazine And some intro stuff I'm leaning towards going through shortly: jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library Tutorials - jQuery JavaScript Library Tutorials:How jQuery Works - jQuery JavaScript Library
via readwriteweb.com So often, all I need to do is resize, crop and save a compressed GIF/JPG. This looks useful.
Yes, Bacon Vodka. Bakon Vodka is a superior quality potato vodka with a savory bacon flavor. It’s clean, crisp, and delicious. This is the only vodka you’ll ever want to use to make a Bloody Mary, and it's a complementary element of both sweet and savory drinks. via bakonvodka.com
Somewhere, Superficial, & So Much More: Designing for Conversion Experiences | Carsonified How to Increase Conversions on any Website in 45 Minutes
Found a couple of these lately - not sure how good they are but they look interesting: Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location - Smashing Magazine Getting Started with Yahoo! GeoPlanet Explorer | Carsonified
Open government isn't about just one government. That's why I got in touch with David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this week's Gov 2.0 International online conference. In the following Q&A, Eaves weighs in on the state of open government in Canada. He also talks about the ironic adoption of open government behind firewalls, and he calls government's insistence on only releasing completed projects a "
This is a little tool we created for our Analog holding page. It inserts a layout grid in web pages, allows you to hold it in place, and toggle between displaying it in the foreground or background. To see it in action, hit G on your keyboard. via hashgrid.com
Twelve administrators of the website Formspring.me, including CEO Mark Baxter were arrested on Monday for data phishing and misleading the public, when the site was revealed to be a "social experiment," which will culminate in the automatic revealing of users' private data on April 1, 2010. Baxter, 28, was sentenced in Van Nuys Superior Court for the creation of said website, which allows users to "send and receive anonymous questions, and learn more about people you find interesting by following their answers.
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The last six months have been exciting for Digg's engineering team. We're working on a soup-to-nuts rewrite. Not only are we rewriting all our application code, but we're also rolling out a new client and server architecture. And if that doesn't sound like a big enough challenge, we're replacing most of our infrastructure components and moving away from LAMP. Perhaps our most significant infrastructure change is abandoning MySQL in favor of a NoSQL alternative.