The Watchmaker Project Tumblelog

Justin Bieber 800% slower

2010-08-24T08:53:27+00:00

Reminiscent of Blade Runner-era Vangelis, and surprisingly listenable.

Periodic Table of the Elements

2010-08-24T03:30:11+00:00

Finally, a genuinely useful piece of information design.

From Drupal’s coding standards

2010-08-03T02:01:41+00:00

“A general rule of thumb is that if you look at a section of code and think “Wow, I don’t want to try and describe that”, you need to comment it before you forget how it works.”

Using URL rewrites to make ExpressionEngine, Campaign Monitor & Google Analytics play nice

2010-07-23T15:44:47+00:00

Bookmarking this article so I don’t have to keep searching for it when this problem bites me every time.

EECI2010 Round-Up

2010-06-14T11:31:01+00:00

Bookmarking for future reference back to the various Erskine presentations from EECI2010.

So you’re moving to Hollywood

2010-05-19T03:41:02+00:00

A great, great article on the experiences of a 20-something aspiring screenwriter working a series of soul-destroying PA jobs in Los Angeles.

I am already bored with 3D | Joeblade

2010-04-26T01:56:35+00:00

“If a film’s selling point is that when you watch it with special glasses on then some objects that were formerly on the screen are now sort-of hovering in front of the screen if you’re at the right angle then it doesn’t bode well. When a film trailer triumphantly announces that the film is in 3D, all I take from that is is that the film’s story, the characters and performances weren’t good enough to sell the film. It marks the film out as one to miss.”

Google Maps API Tutorials

2010-04-09T05:08:29+00:00

An enormous collection of tutorials and links relating to Google’s Maps API.

3 CodeIgniter libraries that will make your life easier

2010-03-30T09:01:00+00:00

The Ocular templating library looks interesting.

Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders

2010-03-23T08:50:31+00:00

An actually useful single-serving site. I’m bound to forget about it when I actually need it, though…

JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth

2010-03-19T06:40:33+00:00

This is a great, detailed look at the Module Pattern in JavaScript. I’d really like to convert all our code to use the loosely-coupled version of this with lazy-loading of scripts to speed up our…

RequireJS: Asynchronous JavaScript loading

2010-03-19T04:18:03+00:00

“If you are running require()-esque loader code in the browser you want to avoid blocking calls else Steve Souders will come over and beat you up.”

The Future of Publishing (via @monooso)

2010-03-18T23:41:38+00:00

FPDF Library - PDF Generator

2010-02-19T02:49:42+00:00

Via @drewm, a handy PDF library for PHP.

1000 Free “Farm-Fresh Web Icons”

2010-02-10T09:40:36+00:00

Larger versions of famfamfam by the look of it.

The Missing Google Analytics Manual

2010-02-10T09:40:36+00:00

A helpful collection of links and tutorials on Google Analytics - always nice if someone else does the hard work and finds the best results for you.

Revised Font Stack

2010-02-10T09:40:36+00:00

My new go-to resource for deciding on a decent font stack in those important first few CSS rules of each new site.

Kick-Ass - Trailer 2

2010-02-09T06:21:21+00:00

Automatic data URI embedding in CSS files

2010-01-15T04:24:35+00:00

Details and link to a tool that automatically converts your CSS background images into data URIs.

How to reduce the number of HTTP requests

2010-01-15T02:49:14+00:00

This is brilliant, and deserves a lot more attention. A command line script that can convert all your CSS background-images into data URIs - the result is a much larger CSS file, but only one HTTP request!