Tech newsletters
Just to share some newsletters I subscribe to. We all live in a world filled with noise and interruption. Sounds old school, but this is how I manage all the constant updates in tech world.
This way I don’t have to lurk HN, Reddit or other places while keeping focus on other important stuffs for the week.
Check these out.
- Ruby Weekly - curated by Peter Cooper - Ruby, Rails, Sinatra etc
- HTML5 Weekly - curated by Peter Cooper - HTML5, CSS3, Webdesign
- Javascript Weekly - curated by Peter Cooper - Javascript, Node.js, Jquery
- Hacker Newsletter - curated by Kale Davis - Stuffs from Hacker News
- Web Design Weekly - Awesome stuffs on HTML5 etc.
- StatusCode - curated by Peter Cooper - Software development stuffs.
Apart from above I do subscribe to some weekly newsletter over at StackExchange (StackOverflow, ServerFault, Programmers) just to get a glance at good questions/tips on related stuffs.
Generators for webdesign
Some handy generators
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator - developed by Colorzila.
- Bootstrap Buttons - a great extension to Twitter’s Bootstrap
If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site.
The results of this situation is that it can be pretty hard to know how much to spent on design. Spend…
Linux Kernel 3.1 logo. LOL
Darrick Wong thinks the logo for the upcoming 3.1 version of the Linux kernel—currently the affable penguin known as Tux—should look, well, a bit more…3.1-y.
Via OMG! Ubuntu!.
![If web browsers are women
vwatson:
Browsers as painted ladies.
[via]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lre0qjGLoK1qdbntco1_1280.jpg)
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.
This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.
The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:
Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:
Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.
Some good points in the article.
In depth look in comparing between mobile apps and mobile web. Worth reading before you plunge into delivering your mobile products.
Many of the arguments I’ve seen that are pro-web tend to be technological arguments, and they’re maybe mostly true as far as they go. But consumers don’t buy based on quickness of updates, newness of technology, or whether their vendor is “in control” of the development process. Platform-agnosticism is part of your politics, not your customers’ buying decision. Users couldn’t care less, particularly non-technical users.
Agree with this although I prefer mobile web. I’m a freedom junkie I guess :D
Learning process explained by A List Apart. Nice work.
p/s: More than meets the eye.
