Author: engel

Neighbourhood Boundaries
// Uses the Flickr shapefiles to show you where the world thinks its neighbours are.

TankBooks pay homage to this monumentally successful piece of packaging design by employing it in the service of great literature. Cigarette packs are iconic objects, familiar, tried and tested, and over time TankBooks will become iconic objects in their own right. The launch titles are by authors of great stature
– classic stories presented in classic packaging;
objects desirable for both their literary merit and their unique design.

This post is an attempt to collect all the major Flash/AJAX/PHP photo galleries in jut one place. Most of them are entirely free of charge. Some, however, have some limitations to their free versions but is should not stop you from trying them.

"A Byte of Vim" is a book which aims to help you to learn how to use the Vim editor (version 7), even if all you know is how to use the computer keyboard.

Ammyy Admin – is the system of remote computer access. It's reliable and accessible way of providing remote computer assistance and remote teaching for your clients or employees in any place of the world. Ammyy Admin connects remote computers within some seconds without any installation or configuration. You can view a computers of your clients, manage their keyboard and mouse.

Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesn’t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two.

Barack Obama in a collage of over 600 headlines from around the world on November 5th, 2008 after wining the US presidential election.

This jQuery plugin will easily create beautifully rounded corners. No images or obtrusive markup necessary.
Architectural features:
* Less than 8000 bytes after yui compression.
* Beautiful and fast anti-aliasing for older or stubborn browsers.
* Degrades well for browsers with javascript turned off.
* Native browser corners used on Safari, iPhone, and Firefox 3.
* Form and anchor buttons are easily styled and rounded.
* Documentation and test coverage (this file).

Michiel Kenis requested a tutorial explaining how to create a similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site.
This 'product slider' is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff.
jQuery already has the plugins to create these effects so we don't have to go about creating them ourselves from scratch.

This shows a demonstration of a slider widget from the jQuery UI library used to create the same effect used on Apple's web site.

jquery.timepickr was created in a attempt to make the process of inputing time in a form as easy an natural as possible.

This calendar contains a set of major US holidays for 2003. Similar to Apple's US holidays calendar, but includes additional national and religious holidays.

This book presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics. The particular subjects covered include motion planning, discrete planning, planning under uncertainty, sensor-based planning, visibility, decision-theoretic planning, game theory, information spaces, reinforcement learning, nonlinear systems, trajectory planning, nonholonomic planning, and kinodynamic planning.

tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities:
* Publishing content to multiple Web locations;
* Combining different media into a single blog post or article;
* Transforming documents on-the-fly;
* Managing repeatable upload actions.

SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents*, and is forward compatible, so it should work for years to come.