My first iPhone app is up on the App Store.
I like Hacker News, but the site’s design just kills my eyes. All of the text is so small and so close together. To remedy this, I made a quick Sylish script to fix things up a bit. Granted, you get more headlines per screen with the original style, but for me, the new style is much quicker to scan. Check it out at the link above if you’re interested.
Here’s what it looks like:
Before:
After:
Good tip on symbolic breakpoints. I’m giving this a shot right now.
The vision seems to be to create a system wich can do for formal knowledge (all the formally definable systems, heuristics, algorithms, rules, methods, theorems, and facts in the world) what search engines have done for informal knowledge (all the text and documents in various forms of media).So which will be a bigger let down, Wolfram Alpha, or Cuil?
The thing that’s been killing me the most with the new Safari 4 beta is not the funky titlebar embedded tabs, but the fact that targeted links open in a new window instead of a new tab. Luckily, running this line of code at the terminal (on a Mac) resolves that issue:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
One of my favorite links in a while. This bookmarklet removes all the clutter from pages leaving just the nicely formatted article text. I’ve been using this a lot tonight, and it works great. Highly recommended for cleaning up cluttered and ad ridden pages.
An impressive looking set of Interface Builder additions.
A continuing series of short screencasts with details on how to scale Rails applications. Episodes so far include responsiveness, page caching, fragment caching and action caching.
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Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.Only one font so far, but this could be a good resource if it grows.
I’ve been struggling with this exact issue. Looking forward to trying this solution. To summarize, the solution to getting your app to “forget” the HTTP Basic credentials is to append a hash (#) to the end of the URLs that you are requesting data from.
If you ever come across the problem in the image below where there is a small gap between the iPhone status bar and the navigation bar, add the following code to fix it:
[viewController.view setFrame: [viewController.view bounds]];
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.I’ve only downloaded the sample pages so far, but this looks as though it could be interesting.
