If you build data visualizations you have run into the issues of useless words destroying the value of your display. You should find a way to implement these “stopwords” into…
Terminal Hack: Show path in finder title bar
When you dig a few levels deep into the Finder, you may lose your path. Sure, you could enable the Path bar by going to View > Show Path Bar,…
What I’ve learned About Data Visualization
If you are working, in any capacity, chances are you see and use data visualizations everyday. There is so much data moving around, you have to find a way to…
Scaling graphics with retinajs
If you are building applications or websites, you need to account for retina/high resolution devices now. Here is a javascript plugin that will make it easier. http://retinajs.com/
Rapid Prototyping with Foundation
I have always been a fan of Rapid Application Development. In some cases prototyping an experience (AKA Interactive Wireframing) can also be a useful tool during development. Foundation is a…
List of useful Javascript Libraries
Here is a great list of libraries that can be used in applications. http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/02/40-stand-alone-javascript-libraries-for-specific-purposes/
AJAX, IE8 & XMLHttp Requests
Cross Origin Resource Support or CORS for short, or HTTP Access Control, available in recent browsers, allows you to make cross-domain HTTP requests; the only requirement being that you must…
Online iPad/iPhone testing tool
I found a cool tool for quickly testing the fruits of my labor in the mobile arena. http://ipadpeek.com/ gives you a quick visual test of how everything lays out. One…
Modified Pinterest API – Not Full Functionality
Here is a cool API I found. Pinterest has yet to come out with their “official” API so this guy from the UK built a scraper using cURL that does…