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KOTOR: The Nightmare

Chipotle Sweet Potato Gratin

24 ways: CSS3 Patterns, Explained

Many of you have probably seen my CSS3 patterns gallery. It became very popular throughout the year and it showed many web developers how powerful CSS3 gradients really are. But how many really understand how these patterns are created? The biggest benefit of CSS-generated backgrounds is that they can be modified directly within the style sheet. This benefit is void if we are just copying and pasting CSS code we don’t understand. We may as well use a data URI instead.

2011 in review: 15 web conference talks you need to watch

Technology conferences increasingly release videos of their presentations online. Simon Willison, the co-founder and CEO of Lanyrd, presents 15 of the best of 2011

We started Lanyrd in 2010 to…

Auto-Saving User Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js

Sisyphus.js is a handy JS library that can save ‘draft’ versions of forms on your Web site so that if a user accidentally reloads or loses the page, they can continue filling it in from where they left off. Smashing Magazine shows how to get it running.

TheInterviewr uses Twilio for call recording, SMS reminders and more

Is he asking for Change, or is he asking for CHANGE?
Follow a man as he affects multiple peoples’ lives with just one dollar, proving that it doesn’t take much to be the change in someone’s life.

Conditional Loading For Responsive Designs

Interesting approach…

Responsive design combines three techniques:

• a fluid grid
• flexible images
• media queries

At first, responsive design was applied to existing desktop-centric websites to…

nfarina:

Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.

We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.

We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling Intents, closing old Activities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.

Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.

So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.

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Simple yet Big Significance of a Call to Action

Interesting points….

In every website that you come across, you could see different calls to action. This is important in order to move the users mind from a passive sate to an active state. It…

arig:

Amazing.

Philips just released a new iPad 2 app called Vital Signs Camera that uses the camera to measure your heart and breathing rate. It detects subtle beat-to-beat changes in the color of your face to measure your heart rate.

We’re slowly living in the future.

(via jayparkinsonmd)

arig:

Goodnight iPad

Um… apparently this is a real book. 

Raw Food – Is it Worth All the Time and Expense?

First school pictures

Kaitlyn’s first school picture (pre-school)…