Web Vampire

Stellar.js claims all you need to do is add some simple data attributes to your markup, run its stellar() method, and.. you get to enjoy the latest visual effect du jour.

(Source: gregbabula)

Anyway, I hope this post hasn’t been too harsh. I’m not all about the money. I think working in a startup can be an enormously rewarding experience. I wouldn’t recommend it any other way. But you need to match your talents, age, skills, ambition and economic situation with your current reality. At a minimum be realistic about the outcomes. And make sure you ask yourself the question, “am I here to earn or to learn?”

Also, discussion at Hacker News

TextExt is a plugin for jQuery which is designed to provide functionality such as tag input and autocomplete and ultimate provides modularity and extensibility for enhancing text field functionality.

(Source: gregbabula)

Can’t remember the pros and cons of all those frameworks like Spine, Sammy, Sproutcore, Backbone, and the rest? Gordon L. Hempton runs through 12 of the most popular, lists their pros and cons, and picks Ember.js as his ultimate winner

(Source: gregbabula)

The MacGap project aims to provide HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing Native OSX Apps that run in OSX’s WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. The project also exposes a basic JavaScript API for OS integration, such as display Growl notifications. The MacGap project is extremely lightweight and nimble, a blank application is about 0.3mb.

Interesting read

Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.

I should probably explain.

Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate Android. That is to say, I don’t hate the concept of Android — in fact, at one point, I loved it. What I hate is what Android has become. And more specifically, what Google has done with Android.

The aim of the article is to describe a good workflow to use when developing web applications. I always read advice on good workflow practices but they are never aggregated together, that’s why I do it right now.

So having said all that, I wanted to share what resources helped me get up to speed in Node.js coming from a Java background.