An Introduction to the Arduino Micro-Controller
Arduino is a micro-controller to build mini-computers able to read informations from sensors (such as the brightness of a room or motion) and then control lights or motors in response. With this tool, we can develop interactive objects.
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ShareKit – iOS Sharing Made Easy
Here’s a cool tool for iOS development. Nate Weiner of Idea Shower created ShareKit to help developers add sharing capabilities to apps with just 3 lines of code. You can customize the code for your needs, but the best part about ShareKit is that its completely free to use in any app under the MIT Open Source License.
You can find ShareKit on GitHub or check it out on the ShareKit website.
You can also find Nate Weiner on Twitter or check out his site.
Mobile TechnologyLeap Motion Controller Unboxing
Today we received our Leap Motion Controller, a new motion detection product that allows you to control your computer in three dimensions with just hands and fingers. We’re excited about the possibilities we can dream up with the product and even more excited about starting to build them!
You can check out Leap Motion below:
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Twitter
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Why the Windows 8 User Experience is Doomed to Fail: It Flies Like a Car and Drives Like a Plane.
Today Microsoft finally released Windows 8. The launch of a new operating system is always exciting. But this is not just an ordinary update. Windows 8 is Microsoft’s most ambitious and most important undertaking since Windows 95 nearly twenty years ago. Windows 8 introduces a completely new user interface (UI), following the unique Metro design language that was created for Windows Phone 7. This time around, however, Microsoft has a serious issue with user experience (UX).
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Easteregg.in – Simple Easter Eggs for Your Site
Perhaps some of you remember with fondness the Konami code from days spent gathered around the television and a video game console. I know that I certainly do. Easteregg.in is a tool that gives developers easy-to-use templates to implement their own Easter Eggs in web products. Simply choose between the different types of Easter Eggs and methods of activation and then throw it into your code! I thought it was a cool concept and decided to share it.
If you’re interested, here is Easteregg.in’s Github page.
Impressive HTML5/JavaScript Possibilities
Recently we’ve seen some really impressive HTML5 experiments around the web. We all know about classic HTML5 demos that show off cool techniques but they are not quite new. In this blog post, we will talk we about advanced projects using promising and powerful APIs. We’ll be looking at 3D games, sound codecs, ray tracing, and C++ libraries based on JavaScript.
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Online Resources for Developers
As a developer I sometimes find myself running into programming related issues. It turns out that most of these issues can be solved by simply looking at the right places. It is safe to say that someone, somewhere, has encountered the same problem than you do and asked about it online.
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Smarter Styling with CSS Preprocessors
In software development we always try to follow rules and best practices to produce better products by minimizing code. One of the most popular mantras is the D.R.Y (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle and states the following:
Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.
Of course, it is not always easy to perfectly follow this principle. For example, this can become difficult in front-end development and, more precisely, when it comes to CSS.
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Discovering Bootstrap, from Twitter
Bootstrap is an open source front-end toolkit created two years ago by some Twitter employees. The initial goal was to improve their internal tools but the application was later expanded beyond Twitter. It provides flexible, ready-to-use components to build with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Consequently, Bootstrap has grown to be the most downloaded project on GitHub (more than 33,000 watchers and almost 7,000 forks).
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HTML5 Boilerplate: A Rock-Solid Default for HTML5 Awesome
HTML5 Boilerplate was developed by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. This project took almost three years to be completed having first been announced on August 10th, 2010.
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