Touchscreens are available on more and more devices, from phones up to desktop screens. Your app should respond to their touch in intuitive and beautiful ways.
Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites. If you're a web developer or just have an interest in software on the web, go ahead and install the browser extension.
This article provides a quick introduction to installable open web apps — installable on Firefox OS and other supporting platforms — including how they are created and how they differ from standard web apps/websites. This is written to make sense to both web developers and native mobile developers.
Laut der SAP Strategy 2014 soll sich in dem Konzern intern und bei den Produkten einiges ändern: Alle Anwendungen sollen grundsätzlich zuerst für den Einsatz auf mobilen Endgeräten entwickelt
The past year has seen many leaps made to improve developer productivity through better tooling. We're paying increasing attention to our workflow and many
Dataclips allow the results of SQL queries on a Heroku Postgres database to be easily shared. Simply create a query on dataclips.heroku.com, and then share the resulting URL with co-workers, colleagues, or the world. The recipients of a dataclip are able to view the data in their browser or download it in JSON, CSV, XML, or Microsoft Excel formats
To connect you to information in real time, it’s important for Twitter to be fast. That’s why we’ve been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed. When we shipped #NewTwitt......
Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript UI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL, SVG or HTML5) for UI layout, CSS for UI style and JavaScript with standard DOM/jQuery APIs for application logic. It equalizes browsers and brings technologies support to those missing any.
LiveCode brings three key things to your development process: the interface, the language and live coding. You start with the interface. Get going by opening a new project and dragging items onto it. A button, a field, a scrollbar… whatever your app needs. Play about with them a bit. Resize, rearrange, change the color, add some pretty drop shadows. Make it look funky and just the way you want it.
Now the language comes in. It’s English. You add it to your objects to make them do what you want them to do. For example writing:
The DBacesslayer aka DBSlayer aka Släyer is a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP
Expose your database (or any fine grained subset of it) to executives or business analysts (or any other non-technical personnel) for quick browsing and ad-hoc reports.
Diet Coda takes everything we’ve ever learned about world-class web code editing, and wraps it up to-go. It’s packed with features, bathed in fun, ready to work.
Emmet takes the snippets idea to a whole new level: you can type CSS-like expressions that can be dynamically parsed, and produce output depending on what you type in the abbreviation. Emmet is developed and optimised for web-developers whose workflow depends on HTML/XML and CSS, but can be used with programming languages too
The Humanworkshop e-zine is a blog about the wonderful world of music production and sound design. We host tutorials about creative use of audio hardware and software, post interesting links to everything related to sound, write articles about the current state of play in the industry, and showcase the latest results of our own projects.
The advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.
ycoon is a Python WSGI web development framework which allows XML processing pipelines to handle HTTP requests based on URI pattern matching. It is similar in intention to the Apache Cocoon framework. Pycoon uses sitemap file format compatible with Apache Cocoon Sitemap
Fingers and thumbs turn desktop conventions on their head. Interaction designer Josh Clark explains what you need to keep in mind when designing for mobile touchscreens and compares finger-friendly touch interfaces for iPhone, iPad and Android
This post is part of the Web Application Development with Clojure tutorial. Part 1: Project Setup Part 2: Data model definition with Lobos and Korma Part 3: Loading Fixures with clj-yaml and HTML Templating with Enlive Part 4: Adding CSS, Post detail page and Simple Authentication Part 5: Blog Administration Area Introduction Clojure is general-purpose [...]
canvg is a SVG parser and renderer. It takes a URL to a SVG file or the text of an SVG file, parses it in JavaScript, and renders the result on a Canvas element. The rendering speed of the examples is about as fast as native SVG.
ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web. Conceived by the CMS Group at The New York Times, ice has been piloting successfully for articles written in the newsroom.
Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications.
‑PEN is a web-based tool for working with images of manuscripts. Users attach transcription data (new or uploaded) to the actual lines of the original manuscript in a simple, flexible interface.
This page gives acces to several XTiger XML document templates for demonstration purpose. The templates are made editable with the AXEL (Adaptable XML Editing Library) Javascript library.
eSciDoc is as a joint project of the Max Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), aimed at building an e-research platform for multi-disciplinary research organizations.
SADE tries to meet the requirement for an easy to use publication system for electronic resources and Digital Editions. It is an attempt to provide a modular concept for publishing scholarly editions in a digital medium, based on open standards.
The TEIViewer is a browser-based application built on a modification of the XHTML branch of the Text Encoding Initiative XSL stylesheet family and the jQuery JavaScript Library.
The eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a powerful open source platform for providing access to digital content. Developed and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL), XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital collections and other digital projects worldwide.
XTF consists of Java and XSLT 2.0 code that indexes, queries, and displays digital objects
Ben Nadel takes his previous HTML5 Cache Manifest experiment and converts it into an "App Mode" iPhone application that can fun in full-screen, offline mode.
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