Having come across this and having the regular need to represent complex math in web… I was happy to be introduced to MatchJax….
MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers.
This means no more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No more font installations… It just plain works.
It’s the most elegant way currently available to include math in your markup… check it out…
http://www.mathjax.org/
Multicolor Search allows you to search images by colors, its a demo of TinEye Lab’s MultiColorEngine Search functions…
Basically you can select up to 5 colors and then search Flickr for images containing those 5 colors… this is how a search looked with 5 different scales of blue… it’s fun to play around with, try it for yourself…
Check it out…
http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/
jqPlot is a plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework.
jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features:
jqPlot is an open source project by Chris Leonello
Check it out…
http://www.jqplot.com/
Flot is a pure JavaScript plotting library for jQuery, with a focus on simple usage, attractive looks and interactive features.
Flot is the combined result of countless suggestions, patches and bug reports by the people using Flot.
It was started by Ole Laursen, sponsored by IOLA, an agile little Danish web-development house with a keen eye for Python/Django and jQuery. If you need commercial support, you’re welcome to contact us – read more here.
It is currently being maintained by David Schnur.
Check it out…
http://www.flotcharts.org/
Now and then new User Interface patterns emerge… sometimes causing attention and other times just being accepted as natural evolutions of existing concepts…
Evernote just announced their new version with a couple of new User Interface patterns weaved in… one of them is the new Home Screen on their mobile applications…
This way of combining a set of shortcuts with a hierarchical navigator using 2.5D for imitating perspective will be interesting to try in real life…
The next time you receive constructive criticism from your manager or a peer, use this six-step process to handle the encounter with tact and grace.
Constructive criticism is often the only way we learn about our weaknesses—without it we can’t improve. When we’re defensive, instead of accepting and gracious, we run the risk of missing out on this important insight. Remember, feedback is not easy to give and it’s certainly not easy to receive, but it will help us now and in the long run.
The recipe is inspired from this great article… http://nxg.li/XeQMAb
On the 8. October 2012 something historically happened… W3C, in collaboration with Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and others, announced the alpha release of Web Platform Docs (docs.webplatform.org), a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation.
In the past, developers who use HTML5, CSS and other technologies of the Open Web Platform have had to consult multiple sites to understand how to use these technologies in a way that works across browsers, operating systems and devices. This was time-consuming and in many cases increased development costs.
With Web Platform Docs, the vision is that web professionals will save time and resources by consulting a single site for current, cross-browser and cross-device coding best practices, including:
The project is implemented as a Wiki, which means that anyone can contribute content to Web Platform Docs. The organizations mentioned above – collectively known as the “stewards” – have launched this new site with initial documents contributed as raw material for the community to shape. The W3C will serve as the site’s convener. As the Open Web Platform evolves, the entire community, including the original stewards and new stewards, will help maintain and improve the content. All materials on the site will be freely available and licensed to foster sharing and reuse.
“People in the web community — including browser makers, authoring tool makers, and leading edge developers and designers — have tremendous experience and practical knowledge about the web,” said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. “Web Platform Docs is an ambitious project where all of us who are passionate about the web can share knowledge and help one another.”
The W3C and the stewards envision webplatform.org as the home of future collaboration with developers and designers. Those interested in contributing to this effort as a steward or as an editor can visit docs.webplatform.org
When (or if) you start using Brackets now, you see that its still very early stuff.
This is deliberate and with full intend of the team behind it, in order to truly make it a community driven effort and to ensure that the project stays aligned with its commission: developed for developers by developers.
This also means that its far from the IDE you may be used to still has a long way to go before its a fully fletched code editor at the level we are used to from other tools…
Anyways, one of things you will start missing is the management of Projects, now luckily Narciso Jarmilo (member of the Brackets team and employee at Adobe), has implemented a simple way of maintaining a list of the most recent projects.
Not only does it provide you with a shortcut to the most recent projects you have been working on, but it also illustrates how simple it is to add functionality that you find necessary.
Having a rich extensibility model has proven over and over again to be more critical to the viability of a tool than having it being springloaded with code-editor-killer features out of the box… and Brackets has done exactly that.
If there is something you see missing, you can easily build it yourself and share it back into the community… thats the groove of Brackets and that’s actually pretty cool…
A 3rd thing Narciso’s extension does, is to illustrate how its possible to integrate your extension with the ProjectManager… now this was what actually brought me to his extension in the first place, because I will now start building my own extension using the notion of projects…
Check out Narciso’s extension here…
https://github.com/njx/brackets-recent-projects
To get into extending and adding functionality for Brackets is impressively easy…
David Deraedt has undertaken the feat of implementing an Annotation Extension which will provide developers with shortcuts to adding comments to their Brackets files…
Here is how it looks when I run it on my machine…
Obviously, the comment inserted is very simple, however remember this is very very early work and if you take a look at the code for generating this, you will appreciate the simplicity of the Brackets Extensibility Model and see that the entire extension is a mere 133 lines of JavaScript code at this point (including comments).
Check out the extension here…
https://github.com/davidderaedt/annotate-extension
…or have a look at other extension initiatives here…
https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Brackets-Extensions
…and please don’t forget, if you dont see what you like or need, its simple to just do it yourself using HTML, CSS and JavaScript combined with the elegant Extensibility API’s of Brackets.
