Month: February 2009

How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North in Denver. Since then, the response has been overwhelming. OOCSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.

This site is a live demo of a lightweight AJAX Portal Framework based on jQuery. Feel free to go through all features at ease 🙂

Hacker News was two years old last week. Initially it was supposed to be a side project—an application to sharpen Arc on, and a place for current and future Y Combinator founders to exchange news. It's grown bigger and taken up more time than I expected, but I don't regret that because I've learned so much from working on it.

Each week, Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski bring you the coolest tips and tricks, news and accessories for Nikon's® Digital SLR cameras.

Learn how to use PHP to add a Twitter-like interface to your applications. Specifically, we show you how to allow users to add posts, disseminate those posts to other users who want to receive them, and allow users to choose to follow the posts of other users.

Clicking the play button below will produce a tone that is generally only heard by people under the age of 25. It has been used as a deterrent device to keep teenagers from loitering in malls and shops, and sounds similar to a buzzing mosquito. Typically the longer you listen to it, the more annoying it gets.

A lot can be learned from Apple.com, so I will use the website as a case-study to go over some of the most important usability techniques in web design. Whether or not you like Apple.com is your own opinion, but there are still a number of important usability principles on which it is based.

The PinupLifestyle Network is the world's only Pinup girl social network, visited daily by the worlds top industry publications, photographers, artists, and models.

OneSwarm is a new P2P data sharing application we’re building to provide users with explicit control over their privacy by enabling fine-grained control over how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.

Chevereto is a free script, written in php, that lets you set up your own image hosting on your web server. It is your hosting and your rules, say goodbye to the closures and restrictions. Chevereto exists because there is a need for an alternative to the traditional one-click image hosting like imageshack or TinyPic. Better if is free and open source.

A recent episode of This American Life interviewed Wil Felps, a professor who conducted a sociological experiment demonstrating the surprisingly powerful effect of bad apples.

The system the dabbawalas have developed over the years revolves around strong teamwork and strict time-management. At 9am every morning, home-made meals are picked up in special boxes, which are loaded onto trolleys and pushed to a railway station. They then make their way by train to an unloading station. The boxes are rearranged so that those going to similar destinations, indicated by a system of coloured lettering, end up on the same trolley. The meals are then delivered—99.9999% of the time, to the right address.

F.lux makes your computer's lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Clay Shirky have the best grasps on reality.