Jokes for Nerds: Wat Moments in Programming
WebdesignIf you ever doubt your nerdery, head on over to Destroy All Software and watch the video of programmer Gary Bernhardt’s Wat talk . If you find yourself laughing, rest assured, you’re a nerd.
Help NASA Code Its Way Through Space
WebdesignIf you’d like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on. The Space Agency recently unveiled a new website, code.nasa.gov , to provide a home for NASA’s various open source software projects. The new website isn’t the first open source effort from NASA, in fact the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud software stack grew out of a NASA project.
An Overview of Firefox’s Coming Developer Tools
Webdesign, WebdevelopmentUsing the 3-D Page Inspector tool, coming soon to a Firefox near you. Firefox is poised to deliver some new tools for web developers
Archive Your Social-Network Life With ThinkUp 1.0
WebdesignA few of the things ThinkUp can do for your social-network life ThinkUp, the web-based data-liberation and analytics application from former Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani , has just released version 1.0. Social networking is often very ephemeral: You post something, a few people respond, and then the conversation just evaporates, disappearing into the ether. One of ThinkUp’s goals is the give your social-network posts a longer life and ensure that you’ll have a way to refer back to those conversations years later
Adobe Puts Flex Out to Open Source Pasture
WebdesignIf you needed further proof that even Adobe is done with Flash , look no further than the company’s recent announcement that it will open source the Flash-based Flex SDK . Adobe plans to turn over its Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation. Flex is the company’s development framework for building cross-platform applications using Adobe Flash and ActionScript.
Gate One Puts a Terminal Emulator in Your Web Browser
WebdesignIf you’ve ever needed to connect to a remote server without installing any desktop software or doing anything other than opening a new browser window, then you need to check out Gate One . Gate One is a web-based terminal emulator and SSH client that will work in any modern web browser
Google Throws New ‘Dart’ Programming Language at the Web
WebdesignIt’s not every day that someone tries to add a new programming language to the web. There’s a good reason for that. The great trinity of web development — HTML, CSS and JavaScript — while not perfect, has proved itself highly flexible and capable of adapting as it evolves, which, in the end, might be more important than perfection
Speed Up Your Responsive Designs with ‘Adaptive Images’
WebdesignResponsive design is no longer just something you’ll find on the portfolio websites of the designers and developers who pioneered the idea. These days using media queries to adapt to varying screen sizes is well on its way to being a mainstream design goal.