Strong Opinions @marksbirch: To Learn To Code or Not, That Is the Question

It isn’t the be-all and end-all — but you can’t expect someone else with the skills to give up their own ideas to implement yours unless you give them lots of money to shelve their idea and do yours.  Question: should you spend your time raising money, or getting skills to do it yourself?  It’s just a practical question.  

cooljava:

A cool project i’m working on with my buddy Tyler. First day of the semester and we basically have a pretty lame Microsoft windows screen saver. Not bad.

subtlearray:

Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours is one of the best Haskell tutorials I’ve found. It gets right to the point without wasting pages upon pages on syntax.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2)

This is supergood stuff.  Check it out if you want to dive into the coolest of the cool-kids’ languages.  

Forever Alone? The EDC is here to help!

NYC’s Economic Development Corporation crunches the numbers on the male/female ratio in NYC.  Cute maps!

Bootstrap rising

decodering:

Anil Dash:

Twitter’s Bootstrap framework for creating web sites and apps is the culmination of half a decade’s work by the web design community in creating CSS resets, grid systems and toolkits for easily building flexible, adaptable websites. While Bootstrap is only a minor evolution over past efforts such as Blueprint or the 960 grid from a technical standpoint, Bootstrap’s polish, rapid adoption, endorsement by Twitter, and vibrant community leave it poised to have more significant impact than perhaps all such previous efforts combined.

I particularly like his suggestion to build a Bootstrap ‘Zen Garden’.

While Bootstrap’s current aesthetics are inoffensive and pleasing, the framework’s success may be its own weakness, as users (or more importantly, designers) see more and more sites featuring its signature graphical elements. If someone in the community steps up to provide simple, lightweight, easily-switchable replacements that users can download, modify and share to update the looks of their Bootstrap-powered sites, this will be the single biggest amplifier to the framework’s longevity.

ng spinners: What is a micro library?

bballentine:

Magazine Grid is an 8 column magazine grid CSS framework designed to look great on the iPad. It is lightweight and appears to be easy to use. According to the project’s website,

It’s an ultramodern CSS-Framework which comes with common magazine design elements such as pagination, gutters and of course a basic grid.

Click here to download the framework. Click here to view screenshots from Aside Magazine. Click here to view the Aside Magazine website.

“Twitter Bootstrap 101,”  David Cochran, NetTuts  

Another great tutorial at NetTuts.  I love that site. 

I’m really interested in web application frameworks as a way to level up — to increase the range of things I’m able to do as a novice coder.  

(Frameworks, by the way, are collections of prewritten chunks of code that speed up or extend your ability to make a new website or web application).  

However…most of the time I don’t really understand the framework’s documentation.  

I took a look at this and for the first time, thought, wait…maybe I could do that…

The slideshow below shows off a piece of a PHP framework called ProdigyView.  Pre-built parts include common elements of a content management system, e-commerce, etc.  

ttreloar:

Watching Nynan Cat in Terminal is most likely why terminal exists.

All you need to do is:

1. Open your Terminal in Mac OS X or Windows or Linux or whatever the hell you are running your toaster on. 
2. Type telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu. 
3. Enjoy an endless nyancat loop in glorious ASCII.

Thank you Gizmodo

When I ran it, I had to add another thing:

TERM=ascii telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu.  

If you don’t know where Terminal is on your Mac, go to Utilities>Terminal.  Then type that up there at the prompt and hit enter!  

It’s fun…try it :)

Yes. 

Yes. 

MEGAYES.