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Archive for the ‘Code’ Category
14 Great Cheat Sheets & Posters to Make You a Software Wizard
18 Sep
I’m a big fan of Cheat Sheets and have a small binder next to my workstation. More sheets are always welcome if they are well made.
Makeuseof has collected quite a few cheat sheets from around the web and posted it on their blog. From MS Office to twitter, 14 sheets in all. Worth a look if you or someone you know wouldn’t mind having quick reference sheets for their desk.
Via: Makeuseof.com.
WordPress Plugin: NoFollow Free
17 Sep
Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustybrick/ / CC BY-NC 2.0
I’ve been looking at SEO topics since starting this blog and I’ve come to the conclusion that the ‘nofollow’ tag, when arbitrarily used, in a word, sucks.
In the interest of serving the community (not that I have any PageRank to give) I’m using a plugin called NoFollow Free to remove the nofollow tag from most links on this site. I will of course add it back in for spammers, etc.
Via: WordPress Plugin: NoFollow Free.
What the heck is a QR Code?
27 Aug
QR Codes are a form of 2D barcodes developed and popular in Japan. Found on websites, advertisements, business cards and many other things.
In the sidebar of this website you will find a QR code for each page. If you have a QR Code reader on your mobile phone you can just take a picture of the code and you will be directed to the URL you scanned the code from on your mobile device.
This is just a silly toy on a blog like this but can be good for things like your business cards, especially if you do mobile development or just want to look nerdy.
Google buttons explained
24 Aug
I know this is old news, but I’m going to blog about it anyway as I don’t want to forget it. I love the Gmail gradient buttons and the fact that they do not use images makes it about one thousand times better in my view.
Douglas Bowman, the lead visual designer for Google for a few years had a hand in creating the latest iteration and and blogged about how the technique was created, why it was created, and the entire creative process from beginning to end.
When I say end, I mean the end of his involvement. If you view the source of Gmail or any other google app that used the technique, you will see a few changes from what Douglas created.
I certainly didn’t create the concept of custom buttons at Google. Nor did I write the final code that made it into production. I merely initiated a couple steps to improve the methods we use to render custom buttons. My portion of the iteration is what’s documented here. There were many other steps in making these buttons a reality.
Via Recreating the button | stopdesign