June 2012
142 posts
The Daily: What to do when your dad is a... →
thedailyfeed:
Dear Coquette,
My dad is an idiot. He has three kids, and one stepkid who is significantly younger (comes with marrying someone 10 years your junior). He makes upwards of $300,000 a year. Now I’m living in poverty. I just graduated college and I am $70,000 in debt right off the bat because he…
TEDx: TEDxYouth@SanDiego: Making Change Now →
tedx:
The seed of TEDxYouth@SanDiego sprouted in early 2011 when Canyon Crest Academy teacher Christopher Black came up with an ambitious but attainable goal: to host a TEDxYouthDay event in Canyon Crest’s very own high school theater. Over the course of the year, students and teachers…
TEDx: This Week's TEDxTalks Playlist →
tedx:
Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website weekly.
Each Tuesday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth…
TEDx: From Burnt Out to Fired Up at... →
tedx:
As students, most of us are used to learning in an enclosed environment — in a school where a seemingly infinite amount of assignments, tests, and exams drive you crazy to the point of burnout, leading you to want to spend all of your time relaxing.
But on Saturday, November 20 — …
Stefan Wehrmeyer: A Mapnificent World →
stefanwehrmeyer:
I just released Mapnificent for 17 cities in the US and some other cities world wide (before Mapnificent was only available for Berlin and somehow for London night buses). You can watch a short video about what Mapnificent is and what it can do here. This post will explain how Mapnificent…
Tech Buying. Made Simple.: Startup Job →
recoengine:
Why work here?
Because at RecoEngine we bridge people and technology.
Because you want to stop feeling like you are spinning life’s wheels.
Because you want to work at a company that stands for something.
Because your values as a person are no longer aligned with the company you work…
: Browse. Discover. Enjoy. Gifting You a New... →
pulsenews:
To wrap up an incredible 2011, we’re bringing you one last release. Just in time for the holidays, these new features will make your Pulse experience more enjoyable with improved browsing and discoverability. There is a lot packed in this release, so let’s get started:
Completely Redesigned…
Oh, How Pinteresting!: Interview with Chrissy... →
pinterest:
Photo by Erich Ernst
Shop owner, music lover, poster collector, and 60s mod aficionado. Chrissy Jensen took some time out of a business holiday season at her shop Domestica to share how her business got started and what and why she pins.
Chrissy’s shop Domestica in Des…
Oh, How Pinteresting!: Interview with Chronicle... →
pinterest:
Way back in August we got the chance to meet-up with hundreds of pinners in the SF/Bay Area. One of the most enthusiastic groups we got a chance to talk to was a “delegation” of happy pinners from Chronicle Books. As soon as we started chatting with Kate, Kristen, and Guinevere,…
Pinteresting Trend: Saturated Geometric Patterns
pinterest:
1. Matt W. Moore “Crystals & Lasers” exhibition; pinned by Little Bird Big Chip onto I Like Stuff
2. Cappellini Proust Geometrica armchair; pinned by Ian onto Inside
3. Howkapow mug designed by Matt Keers via MAIYA; pinned by Leila onto The Home
4. Paper garland by Weekday Carnival; pinned by Irina onto Party Perfect
5. Sarah Applebaum installation; pinned by Sage onto Art
Parse.ly Closes $800K Financing Round →
parsely:
Parse.ly (http://parsely.com), the intelligent personalization and optimization engine for content providers, raised $800,000 from Blumberg Capital, ff Asset Management, Scott Becker (formely co-founder and CTO of Invite Media), Don Hutchison (formerly principal at Netcom, Work.com), Jeffrey Greenblatt (senior principal at Ankyra Capital) and Jon Axelrod (formerly founder/CEO at...
The immediate benefit of CoffeeScript
lukemorton:
All languages have their pros and cons. Some of these deciding factors are more superficial than others. Often the superficial benefits are what strike you first about a language. CoffeeScript for example has a really tight, sexy and expressive syntax that allows you to be concise consistently. Take this comparison of a pointless jQuery plugin:
Both do the same thing, but...
Kohana Modules
lukemorton:
If you like (H)MVC and PHP (yay for acronyms) you should be using Kohana! Haha how obsequious of me. But really Kohana is awesome, and if you use it you can take advantage of the amazing community modules documented on this new(ish) site:
http://kohana-modules.com/
Drizzle 2011
lukemorton:
It might be quite a big year for Drizzle (a MySQL fork) with a GA release (Drizzle 7) at some point. Reading http://docs.drizzle.org/mysql_differences.html made me a wee bit giddy! Or you could start from the top: http://docs.drizzle.org/index.html
A Blog, By Luke Morton: Prophet, for Kohana →
lukemorton:
Over the weekend I published my first GitHub repository and Kohana Module. I named it Prophet since it’s main job is to predict what View your Controller will want to render to save you the hassle. It also foresees errors and handles them with divine power. Enough of the bullshit, it currently…
So here's to the new year!
lukemorton:
Hopefully the New Year will bring both good times and mistakes from which more good times can be made. For me I guess the first thing I’ve done this year in relation to the web is release a Kohana Module that adds automatic view loading and error handling to your application. Check out Prophet on GitHub.
Personally I’m not too sure what I want this year to bring, I guess I need to...
A Blog, By Luke Morton: Returning in global PHP... →
lukemorton:
A friend yesterday asked whether he could include a file and it’s variables be accessible within the scope of a class method. He was right to question this since including a file outside the class will result in the variables being out of scope.
The best solution (as I first discovered through
A Blog, By Luke Morton: The uses of static... →
lukemorton:
This is the second part of a series of posts regarding variables and scope, particularly in PHP. The first part discussed global variables.
To explain static variables and when you should use them you need to understand how they work. To define a static variable, you use the static keyword…
A Blog, By Luke Morton: Who says global variables... →
lukemorton:
This is the first part of a series of posts regarding variables and scope, particularly in PHP.
Global variables tend to be seen as bad thing. Some programmers just accept this fact, others question why. I guess I have always presumed they are bad, however as my general knowledge in programming…
Jumo | Blog: Jumo and GOOD Combine Forces to... →
jumoblog:
I’m thrilled to share with you today the exciting news that Jumo is combining forces with GOOD to create a powerful online content and social engagement platform. This is an enormous opportunity for our talented teams to build a single community of like-minded people and mission-driven…
livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
[edit: apparently GoDaddy changed their stance according to TechCrunch]
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2:…
ifttt Blog: ifttt the beginning... →
ifttt:
I’d like to humbly announce that the first beta invites for a project I’m incredibly excited about are out the door. The project is called ifttt, shorthand for “if this then that”. With this blog I hope to begin fleshing out some of the initial inspirations that led to the inception of ifttt…
ifttt Blog: ifttt one year in →
ifttt:
Today marks one year since we humbly launched ifttt into private beta and it’s been a wild ride to say the least! We dropped the ‘private’ in ‘private beta,’ introduced Recipes and built new Channels/Triggers/Actions like mad.
Though ifttt is still in its early stages, people continue to…
Blog | Graphicpeel: iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS →
Click here to see 11 iOS icons made in only CSS, no images whatsoever.
NOTE: This demo will only work correctly on a webkit browser and has only been tested in Safari 5 and Google Chrome 5. Here’s how it will look when rendered correctly.
How was it done?
The following…
Gowalla: Going Forward →
gowalla:
A little over two years ago we unveiled a new way to share and discover the world’s most loved places. Little did we know that our product would inspire people in every country around the world to venture out and share their lives on the go.
You have visited millions of places, taken millions of…
UT Stamp-ede
gowalla:
Greetings from Austin, home of the beloved Longhorns. We just rolled out 10 new stamps for University of Texas including Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, Blanton Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Bass Concert Hall, UT Austin Visitor Center, Student Activity Center, Texas Union, Visitor Center.
If you’d like to...
Gowalla: Gowalla is Going to Facebook →
gowalla:
Three years ago Gowalla’s journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place with him. Not just in a text message or status update sort of way, but with a bit of weight…
Gowalla: Thanks For Your Feedback (yes, even for... →
gowalla:
Two days ago we released Gowalla 4 for all of our friends around the world. For those keeping score at home, the last 24-hours have been a bit rough for some of you, and we’ve been following the dialog in the comment feeds, on Twitter, etc. I’ve personally been trying to reply to as many of you as…
Gowalla: Day One! →
gowalla:
Yesterday we turned the page on a new chapter for Gowalla. For our fans keeping score out there, the reaction has ranged from “The new Gowalla is the best thing ever!” to “I absolutely and utterly hate the new Gowalla with a passion reserved for spammers and ambulance chasers!” I’m happy to…
Gowalla: A New Gowalla →
gowalla:
Nearly three years ago I sat on a beach at Lake Tahoe and watched as a large low-flying cloud hung above the lake, creating the backdrop for a beautiful weekend of solitude. As much as I enjoyed the time alone to clear my thoughts, I was overwhelmed with the desire to share this experience with…
Into The Forrst: On the Forrst invite system. →
forrst:
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just launched a substantial update to Forrst’s invite system.
We’ve employed an invite-only model since the early days of the site with a nice degree of success; it’s helped keep the community highly-focused, and ensured that only developers and designers are…
Fontdeck Blog: Hyphenation arrives in Firefox and... →
fontdeck:
Pretty much the only forms of Western literature that don’t use hyphenation are children’s books and websites. Until now. Yesterday’s release of Firefox 6 and last month’s release of Safari 5.1 on OS X Lion mean that two browsers now support CSS 3 hyphenation.
Turning on hyphenation is…
Fontdeck Blog: Using OpenType font features with... →
fontdeck:
The vast majority of fonts contain lowercase and uppercase alphabets, numerals, punctuation and accents. But there can be much more to fonts than this basic set of characters. Many professionally-designed fonts also contain ligatures, alternative characters, smallcaps, different kinds of numbers,…
Dribbble Blog: Go Pro! →
dribbble:
We’re super excited today to announce the release of Dribbble Pro, a suite of extra features for existing players for just $19 USD per year.
In an earlier blog post, we outlined a roadmap for the future, noting that our next challenge was sustainability—adding revenue to keep up with the…
Dribbble Blog: Intramural NYC →
dribbble:
Last Thursday night, Rich and I trekked down to Manhattan to attend a special Dribbble meetup hosted by our friends at Squarespace. When we arrived in SOHO, we quickly realized this wasn’t going to be just another meetup. The folks at Squarespace had designed a team competition: Renting a mini…
chpwn blog: Spire Proxy "FAQ" →
chpwn:
Spire needs a proxy!? It’s useless!
As has been noted, my recently released tweak Spire requires a proxy and data from an iPhone 4S to operate. As the point of Spire is to get Siri on devices that aren’t the iPhone 4S, this might at first seem to imply that Spire is useless.
However, this…
chpwn blog: Carrier IQ is on iOS →
chpwn:
Carrier IQ, the now infamous “rootkit” or “keylogger”, is not just for Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, and even webOS. In fact, up through and including iOS 5, Apple has included a copy of Carrier IQ on the iPhone. However, it does appears to be disabled along with diagnostics enabled on…
Inside Breaking News: 5 tips to grow your Facebook... →
breakingblog:
We’ve passed a big milestone over on Breaking News’ Facebook page: 100,000 likes!
True, this is a pretty modest Facebook audience compared to many other major brands. But unlike some of those brands, Breaking News is still a relatively new entity in the news ecosystem. We launched our …
betashop: Thanks for a Fab start to 2012 - Fab... →
betashop:
By all measures Fab just wrapped up a phenomenal first quarter of 2012.
We’re truly humbled by the movement that has grown behind Fab and the products we offer. It’s nothing short of incredible and rare to see so many people so passionate and excited about an e-commerce site. We’re genuinely…
Fab & Glamour Magazine Pop-Up Beauty →
Fab mobile continues to soar
betashop:
Here’s some quick updated data on Fab mobile.
40% of Fab’s daily usage is via our mobile apps.
40% of Fab’s purchasing customers use Fab’s mobile apps.
Fab’s mobile revenue per week doubled in Q1
“Fab co-founder, design guru and chief curator Bradford Shellhammer explains to...”
– Fab Expands Into Beauty Products; Partners With Glamour Magazine For New Pop-Up Shop | TechCrunch (via betashop)
“Since launching with Open Graph in January, referral traffic from Facebook has...”
– Developer Spotlight: Fab.com - Facebook Developers (via betashop)
“This past November, I clicked my first Facebook ad. It was for animal butt...”
– Fab.com And Why Failing Isn’t Always Failure | Proof Branding (via betashop)
betashop: Fab Welcomes Scott Ballantyne as Global... →
betashop:
We’ve got a simple formula at Fab: Find one thing you can be the best at and do that one thing better than anyone else in the world.
Our one thing is design. We’re on a mission to establish Fab as the world’s most valuable design resource. We believe that that’s an Amazon-sized business…
“I think a lot of people often mistake opportunity for passion. Too many people...”
– What’s love got to do with it? For startups, everything — Tech News and Analysis (via betashop)
Watchbetashop:
1 year ago Bradford and I made the best decision of our professional lives.
