Jose Parra
Software Development Connoisseur, Photographer, Traveler. Pics: Wellington, New Zealand
Blogs à suivre. Initial Public Offerings - IPO Stocks - IPO Calendar. Snap.svg - Why Snap. Snap.svg is a brand new JavaScript library for working with SVG.
Snap provides web developers with a clean, streamlined, intuitive, and powerful API for animating and manipulating both existing SVG content, and SVG content generated with Snap. Currently, the most popular library for working with SVG is Raphaël. One of the primary reasons Raphaël became the de facto standard is that it supports browsers all the way back to IE 6.
However, supporting so many browsers means only being able to implement a common subset of SVG features. Snap was written entirely from scratch by the author of Raphaël (Dmitry Baranovskiy), and is designed specifically for modern browsers (IE9 and up, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera). Another unique feature of Snap is its ability to work with existing SVG. Finally, Snap supports animation. Snap is 100% free and 100% open-source (released under an Apache 2 license). Web Development & Web Design. WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test. TypeWonder - Beta. These Are Some of the Most Amazing Lego Projects Ever Built. In his new book, Beautiful LEGO, Mike Doyle has curated more than 200 pages of the world’s best Lego art.
From museum-ready sculptures to indulgent geek references, the book highlights the impressive evolution of the legendary toy. “Every year this stuff gets more and more intricate and the technique gets better, so I thought it would be great to celebrate the merits of the medium,” says Doyle, who is also a Lego artist and includes some of his own work in the book. A graphic designer by day, Doyle re-discovered Legos four years ago after visiting Legoland with his two sons and then cruising around the internet to see what other people were doing. Book cover reproduced from Beautiful LEGO, with the permission of No Starch Press. By Mike Doyle. After a lot of research on technique, he tackled his first project. The appeal for Doyle is the ability to “go beyond the medium.” Much of the other art in Beautiful LEGO also breaks boundaries, not getting hung up on the bricks themselves. Presentation Skills Considered Harmful — Serious Pony.
There is no cure for presentation stage fright.
You can reduce the symptoms with beta blockers, but when the drugs wear off, you're still… you. You're still up there with a cracking voice, runaway heart rate, and nauseating dread. So what do you do? You read posts with titles like “Ten Tips For Better Presentations”, “Kick-ass With PowerPoint”, and “Public Speaking Secrets of Martin Luther King”. You read excellent books like “Resonate”, “Presentation Zen”, and “Confessions of a Public Speaker.” You practice practice practice. You work on your 12-17 seconds of eye contact.
You work on your Opening With Humour, your 3-Act Narrative, and your Emotional Hooks. And since the bar has gone up for even the geekiest conferences today, you work on your evocative-yet-not-cliche graphics, your designer-but-not-default-theme layout, and your clever-yet-clean typography. But because you are a human, your stage fright now–after working on it so very very hard–is worse. Color Scheme Designer 3. Smore - Design beautiful online flyers and publish instantly. Moovly. Romain Loubersanes. Just wanky.. Kuler. Fuck you very much. TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK. Review: Microsoft Surface 2, Microsoft Surface Pro 2. Microsoft’s Surface devices are the physical embodiments of its operating system.
That was true of last year’s devices, which, like Windows 8 itself, many people found perplexing. And the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, much like the new Windows 8.1, reflect iterative refinements based on what Microsoft learned after releasing its products in the wild. These devices feel more refined. The keyboards are more responsive, the battery life, cameras and displays are all better. There are no dramatic changes, but everything is a little bit nicer. There are two devices, both of which come in multiple configurations. Some of the upgrades are really noticeable. Overall, these are just really well-built devices. Speaking of the keyboards, these too have gotten upgrades. That cramping also exists on the desktop environment. If you only want to use a Surface for web browsing, email, and office applications, you’ll do fine. That fleshing out still has not happened.