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28th September 2012 Phil Booth in Css, Web Development, Stylus, Editors

Styler is a new editor for CSS and Stylus, specifically geared towards rapidly developing and debugging stylesheets in the browser. I've not played with it myself yet, only seen the tweets about it from lxjs, but it looks pretty sweet at first glance.

https://github.com/tonistiigi/styler
- styler
  
  CSS/Stylus live editor. Contribute to styler development by creating an account on GitHub.
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5th September 2012 Gordon Murray Dent in Clojure, Programming, Functional Programming

Some good examples of one liners in Clojure that demonstrate the power and succinctness of functional programming, thanks Tom. #clojure
- 10 Clojure One Liners to Impress Your Friends " The Free Geek
  
  I saw an interesting post today aptly titled 10 Scala One Liners to Impress Your Friends and then someone followed up with another blog post titled 10 CoffeeScript One Liners to Impress Your Friends. Those two posts show programming tasks (most of them trivial to solve in modern programming languages) being accomplished in about 1 line of code each.
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- Phil Booth
  Having spent some time resolving Project Euler problems in Clojure, I really liked this article that it links to:
  
  http://clj-me.cgrand.net/2009/07/30/everybody-loves-the-sieve-of-eratosthenes/
  
  24th October 2012
  
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15th August 2012 Gordon Murray Dent in Javascript, D3-js, Graph

If you want to know more about how to get the most out of D3 force directed graphs then check out this video tutorial by Mike Bostock. He explains all the forces and constraints that you can use and how best to combine them to produce the visual layout you desire.
- Mike Bostock - D3 - Data Visualization Meetup
  
  Mike (@mbostock) gave a talk at Trulia for the Data Visualization meetup group introducing D3, a visualization framework he made after his work on Protovis and Polymaps. Apologies for the quality. Our video equipment died so Joe Golike (@golike) saved our asses by recording the talks on his phone.
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14th August 2012 Phil Booth in Clojure, Lisp, Programming, Functional Programming, Imperative Programming

Rich Hickey has been up to his old tricks again; this time giving an awesome keynote speech at GOTO Copenhagen, called 'The Value of Values'.

The talk is essentially a comparison of the traditional approach of imperative programming, which he characterises as place-oriented programming, against some of the principles that are applied by functional programming languages, which he characterises as value-oriented programming.

For my money, he's absolutely nailed it once again, and speaks very cogently about why values as modelled by functional programming languages are a superior model for software development.

You can see the talk and the slides side on InfoQ:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
- Keynote: The Value of Values
  
  Rich Hickey compares value-oriented programming with place-oriented programming concluding that the time of imperative languages has passed and it is the time of functional programming.
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- Maja Obucina
  I only saw first 20 mins of it (will finish watching it!) but I'm already reminded of why I'm fascinated by all things code/web/digital - it's all about language and philosophy, my two favourite academic subjects :-) And creation of new worlds - not in religious sense (although it could be argued) but in Sci-Fi sense :-) (another passion of mine). And lastly, it's so wonderfully about connecting two very different worlds - the physical reality as we know it (the users) and the "invisible" landsc… Read moreape of the code. LOVE it! :-)
  
  And he looks so sweet (Rich) - I'll be definitely approaching him for some insights.
  
  Thaks for sharing Phil :-)
  
  16th August 2012
  
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8th August 2012 Phil Booth in Java, Android, Programming, Game Development

If you're interested in developing games for the Android platform, this set of tutorials should be quite useful, written by Tamas Jano:

http://www.javacodegeeks.com//2011/06/android-game-development-tutorials.html
- Android Game Development Tutorials - Java Code Geeks
  
  Some months ago we received an email from a fellow Java developer, Tamas Jano , asking to be part of our JCG partners program. To our surprise he maintains a blog named "Against The Grain" debating about game development for the Android platform.
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- Linus Norton
  Haven't had a chance to read through it all yet but it looks like a really interesting series.
  
  At first I didn't think his implementation of the game loop was ideal (compared to mine: https://github.com/linusnorton/Android-Utils/blob/master/src/norton/android/util/game/GameThread.java) but on closer inspection the frameskip makes it superior.
  
  9th August 2012
  
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6th August 2012 Rowan Manning in Coffeescript, Javascript, Asynchronous Programming

I started using Async.js yesterday, it provides a set of utilities for working with asynchronous JavaScript. Really powerful and easy to understand. https://github.com/caolan/async
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  Async is a utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript. Although originally designed for use with node.js, it can also be used directly in the browser. Async provides around 20 functions that include the usual 'functional' suspects (map, reduce, filter, forEach...)
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- Linus Norton
  This looks really interesting. I'm looking at things like
  
  async.parallel([
  
  and wondering how this is working behind the scenes? It seems to be addressing a similar set of problems as IcedCoffee
  
  9th August 2012
  
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2nd August 2012 Perry Harlock in Css, Html, Web Design, Ux, Ui

Another talk from Front Trends 2012 Style Guide-driven UI Design with Sass - Jina Bolton
- Style Guide-driven UI Design with Sass - Jina Bolton
  
  Jina Bolton's talk at Front-Trends 2012 - http://2012.front-trends.com/speakers/#jina-bolton
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2nd August 2012 Linus Norton in Javascript, Frameworks

http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/08/01/rich-javascript-applications-the-seven-frameworks-throne-of-js-2012/
- Rich JavaScript Applications - the Seven Frameworks (Throne of JS, 2012) - Steve Sanderson's blog - As seen on YouTube™
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- Phil Booth
  This is a really nice post. Given his background as the creator of knockout, I think he does a great job of staying unbiased and presenting a clear discussion of each frameworks relative merits.
  
  2nd August 2012
  
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30th July 2012 Rowan Manning in Css, Html

Interesting that the `clearfix` hack is still being developed. This one works in IE8+ and is a lot leaner than the standard clearfix – great if you can drop IE6–7 support! http://www.css-101.org/articles/clearfix/latest-new-clearfix-so-far.php
- Clearfix: the new way to do it!
  
  clearfix for modern browsers Who would think there is still something to write about clearfix? :) Two years ago, I wrote clearfix Reloaded + overflow:hidden Demystified, where I proposed an addition to the original clearfix rules in the form of the ::before pseudo-element to prevent collapsing margins in modern browsers.
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25th July 2012 Phil Booth in Javascript, Web Development, Node Js, Meteor

Crikey! The Meteor open-source javascript web framework has raised a whopping $11.2 million of funding, predominantly from Andreessen Horowitz. Needless to say, that is a staggering sum for what is still a very new open source project. If well managed, it should guarantee that the project's velocity can stay high for a number of years.

You can read the full details on the meteor blog:

http://meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-million-development-budget
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28th September 2012 Phil Booth in Css, Web Development, Stylus, Editors

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