There seem to be quite a few links this week loosely grouped around interface design, with some other geeky goodness mixed in.
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Isotope jQuery Plugin: Seriously one of the coolest jQuery plugins I’ve seen in a while. When I get some time, I plan to spend some time with this plugin and Solr results for a couple of projects…
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Duke, Exeter, and Howe I Wish Computer Science was Taught: Good post on some of the shortcomings of the current state of computer science education.
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Queuing Theory Books Online: Eventually you’ll find a problem that could use some queuing. This is a great list of books that give a great theoretical handling of the subject.
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Here is the Biggest Mistake You Will Make on Amazon EC2: With the popularity of cloud computing, there are some things you need to remember when deploying to platforms like EC2. Take away from the article…be careful rebooting server instances!
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What is the On-Boarding Process for new Employees at Twitter: While most DH centers have pretty small teams, I’m always interested in how bigger companies bring new developers in and cultivate their cultural beliefs. This is a nice piece on how Twitter brings new people in.
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How to Use Dropbox to Organize Your Startup’s DH Project’s Documents: Just replace “startup” in this article with “your project” and this has some good tips for keeping your project documents organized.
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Pull Request Diff Comments: Github now allows you to comment on individual lines on pull requests! Very useful for code reviews.
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Landing Page Best Practices: Remember Flash splash pages? This post has some great tips on designing landing pages to engage users in the content of your site.
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IE 9 Beta: Let’s face it, a lot of people don’t have access to other browsers for various reasons (can’t install software on work computer). Even though IE is painful, Microsoft swears IE 9 will be better…
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Better grids: Lessons learned from Design for Developers: Thoughtbot is putting on a series of training sessions to teach design principals to developers. Take away on this…3 and 4 column grid systems provide a solid foundation that introduces clarity to your web layouts.
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Documentation is Freaking Awesome: Enough said.
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Paul Irish on HTML 5 Boilerplate: Anyone who’s looked at any HTML I’ve done in the last 6 months will notice that it starts with HTML 5 Boilerplate (usually with some 960gs). This is a nice presentation by Paul on its development and use.
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Reuse your JavaScript as jQuery Plugins: Nice post on converting JS scripts in to jQuery plugins using a couple of different patterns. Definitely worth a look if you are writing any Javascript.
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How to use Dropbox as a git server: Can’t/Don’t want to use github as your SCM? This tutorial shows how you might use Dropbox to replicate your git repo (you’ll need to adjust the paths if you’re a Windows user).
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Announcing TileMill: A Modern Map Design Studio Powered by Open Source: The folks at DevelopmentSeed are doing some amazing work. If you have need to create some maps, TileMill looks like a nice piece of software to get you running without needing to install a large server infrastructure!
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Hacked Floppy Disk Plays Starwars Music: Just for fun