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typeahead.js
a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library Visit Link
Do you like, like Frameworks?
Creating your own framework is hard. Building a responsive website is hard. Crafting a website that is as good on mobile as it is on a 50″ television as it is on a PS3 is really hard. Someone posted a question about writing your own framework vs using an existing tool and it got me… Continue reading Do you like, like Frameworks?
Setting Cache with Amazon S3
As part of my other post about Alexander Headland surf I had to get the images from the camera to the laptop to the server to you. Most of those steps are pretty straight forward, but the path from the laptop to the server can be done better than you might think. I use Amazon… Continue reading Setting Cache with Amazon S3
Alexander Headland Surf
This morning I woke up at 04:50 to make it down to the beach to take a few pictures of the rising swell before the sun came up. It wasn’t as big as I was hoping but here are a few choice shots from the morning.
Typeup
A nifty Compass extension for quick typesetting without hours of math churning. Visit Link
color.hailpixel.com ยท Swatch you doing?
A great colour picker too. Move the cursor up and down for brightness, left and right for hue and scroll up and down for saturations. Clicking on the screen saves the current colour and opens another column for you to choose a new one. Visit Link
Backgrid.js
This may be a good solution to use along with enquire.js to responsively change the data grid based on the viewport Visit Link
Disable jquery effects for touch screens
There was a recent question of Stack Overflow looking to disable mouse hover events in jQuery on touch devices. My first thought was why disable them on touch when you could just enable them when touch wasn’t available. I have some jquery mouseover effects on my website that I need to disable for touch screens,… Continue reading Disable jquery effects for touch screens
Converting photoshop points to website ems
When you first get a comp from the designer it is best to get the base typography set in your style sheet before you move onto creating the CSS for the rest of the site. The problem is that photoshop measures type in pt’s, and we build in Ems (never pixels). How do we make… Continue reading Converting photoshop points to website ems