thoughts 2011 05 28

Chalkwork Collection icons
http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/collection/
Free for personal, 99 for commercial

Blueprint generator
http://ianli.com/labs/blueprinter/
For adjusting column width & count and gutter width

PaNu
http://www.paleonu.com/
getting started
paleonutrition - emulating the evolutionary metabolic milieu

Public data sets.
http://jacquesmattheij.com/Free%2C+Public+Data+Sets

CSS Click Chart
http://www.impressivewebs.com/css3-click-chart/
CSS properties by example

YepNope.js
http://yepnopejs.com/
Conditional loader for JS feature replacment (polyfill, shims, etc.)

Think Stats, Probability and Statistics for Programmers
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/

Open Data Pilot Project
http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F9B7A1E3-1
Government of Canada data for all sorts of things

Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide
http://www.few.vu.nl/~dick/PTAPG.html

npm package list
http://npm.mape.me/
Oh. My.

Compress PDF
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html
Option in the Save as PDF box

Open Source data mining software
http://www.junauza.com/2010/11/free-data-mining-software.html
Including Orange, RapidMiner, Weka (written in Java), JHepWork, KNIME.

AppsFire
http://appsfire.com/
Visual display (on an iphone!) of app collections, who has what installed, who is using what

Catalog Choice
https://www.catalogchoice.org/premium
Similar to Green Dimes, removes addresses from junk mail lists

Wirify
http://www.wirify.com/
http://www.volkside.com/2010/12/introducing-wirify-the-web-as-wireframes/
View a web page as a wireframe, extracting major elements into grey blocks
Free and pro (exports) version

Instagram add-ons
http://www.4muladesign.com/creative-blog/instagram-roundup-of-the-latest-innovations/
stickers to posters to prints

Touch gesture reference guide
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1071

Node.js modules
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules

Automating JavaScript Testing with QUnit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/gg749824.aspx

Chameleon
http://chameleonproject.org/
clean room implementation of the UIKit by Apple

Isotope
http://isotope.metafizzy.co/index.html
jquery plugin for dynamic layouts

Kellan's slideshow by interesting
http://www.flickr.com/show.gne?api_method=flickr.photos.search&method_params=min_taken_date|1295664643;max_taken_date|1295758800;sort|interestingness-desc;safe_search|1

Timeline
http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
Web Widget for Visualizing Temporal Data

Google Chart API
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

25 Startup Post-Mortems
http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/

guryjs.org
http://guryjs.org/
JavaScript library simplifying creation of HTML5/Canvas apps with chain based interface.

Disconnect
http://www.disconnect.me/
safari / chrome browser extension to block google and facebook, among others
Open source, code on Google
http://code.google.com/p/byoogle/source/browse/trunk/google/chrome/disconnect/

198 ways of non-violent action
http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations103a.html

892 ways to partition a 3x4 grid
http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps/3x4grid.html

Safe CSS Defaults
http://nimbupani.com/safe-css-defaults.html

Bolefloor
http://www.bolefloor.com/en/#p=gallery
Amazing wood flooring that follows the grain of the wood (somewhat)

MicroVentures
https://www.microventures.com/
when you want to play at being an angel investor

arXiv
http://arxiv.org/
science papers

javacript gotchas
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/javascript-gotchas.aspx

Single page websites
http://designrfix.com/inspiration/single-page-websites-50-awesome-examples

jQuery 1.6 cheatsheet
http://jquerybyexample.blogspot.com/2011/05/download-jquery-16-visual-cheat-pdf.html

JS mistakes to avoid
http://www.ifadey.com/2011/05/javascript-mistakes-you-must-avoid/
of note, event delegation

GA event tracking guide
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html
For client work