February 2012
6 posts
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The Oatmeal on the state of digital media →
Spot on.
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Making jQuery UI look like Bootstrap
I’m using the Bootstrap UI toolkit for a project I’m working on. I like it quite a bit so far. However, it doesn’t do everything. I wanted a date picker and an autocomplete control that bootstrap doesn’t have. Not being one to do work when I don’t have to, I used the jQuery UI controls.
However.. they looked out of place.
I considered a couple of approaches:
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Great post about the architecture of BaseCamp... →
@dhh summed it up well:
tl;dr: We made Basecamp Next go woop-woop fast by using a fancy HTML5feature and some serious elbow grease on them caching wheels
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Five little problems with Twitter's UI →
I rarely use the Twitter web UI, but have certainly felt like it’s gotten worse in the last couple of revisions. This post does a good job of pointing out a few issues.
Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell... →
Really enjoyed this post by Jeff Atwood. Resisting the temptation to implement feature requests from users can be really tough. However, the point of talking to your users isn’t to harvest their ideas, but to gain insight into how they think.