How to create mood boards: 30 expert tips | Graphic design When trying to convey a design idea to win pitches and get an early sign-off, moods, feelings and visions can be difficult to communicate verbally. So designers will often use mood boards: a collection of textures, images and text related to a design theme as a reference point. Mood boards help others to 'get inside our heads' as they show what you're thinking and feeling about a creative idea and your intended vision for a piece of work. Get Adobe Creative Cloud now That said, mood boards can be a pain to create, with many hours spent trawling image galleries, websites, books and magazines looking for that perfect image to sum up your intended feel for the work at hand. 01. When putting together mood boards, it's easy (and therefore tempting) to just use Google Images. Real world inspiration such as this can be a very powerful 'convincer' when putting together a board for a client. 02. Real world inspiration is all around us. 03. 04. 05. It's a subliminal trick. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11.
Client Side MVC with Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Rails As a backend developer, I always felt it's tedious and time consuming to build frontend UI interfaces, and coding interactive behaviors in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS with Rails MVC has not been one of my favorite things - until recently. I do a lot of R&D prototypes, which requires building new apps quickly, and often times the apps have to look very good in order to generate that 'wow factor'. I can always get the job done by tweaking the JavaScript, HTML, and CSS here and there, but it just hasn't been nearly as satisfying an experience on the frontend as I've had with Rails on the backend. There just hasn't been a single omg, wow, I can't believe it can be done so elegantly moment on the frontend. Also, the constant context switching between JavaScript and Ruby only makes things worse. Enter Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, and Twitter Bootstrap. This trio has been the closest to the Holy Grail of the frontend UI development for me so far. Resources
Downloadable SVG in PNG format Recently, I worked on some interesting features, we use Highcharts and/or Raphaeljs to build complex charts, including bar chart, scatter chart or heat map, etc. In an extreme sample, we build a complicated one-page charting engine by which user is able to compose a group of conditions and then render a meaningful chart according to what are selected. It's pretty cool. Meanwhile, client is willing to download these generated charts on individual chart level. They also want to have an ability to share the individual chart as a link or even as a piece of HTML code. What's the best solution to add these functionalities? Start from a HTML template Above HTML code is the generated content on my page, I will mainly explain the solution based on it. Deal with SVG via HTML5 Canvas HighCharts and Rapheal are JS libaries by which you are able to generate complex SVG charts, normally, people can not download a svg file directly, and it's also not a popular image format for sharing around. Conclusion
PEPSized | What You See Is What You Get (for free) Comparaison Google Analytics / Piwik Il est vrai que je suis resté assez discret depuis la parution du livre que j’ai réalisé sur Piwik avec Germain Butrot, il faut dire que mes vacances étaient assez tôt cette année du coup je n’ai pas eu le temps de vous parler en détail de cette magnifique solution de web analytique Open Source. L’objet de cet article est de vous faire une comparaison objective entre les deux solutions de web analytique que sont Google Analytics et Piwik. Comme certains d’entres vous le savent je suis également auteur d’un livre sur Google Analytics, et n’étant pas sectaire je pense être bien placé pour vous faire un retour sur l’une et l’autre des solutions et ainsi vous présenter celle qui sera la plus adaptée à vos besoins. Piwik est il meilleur que Google Analytics? Je pense que c’est la principale question que se pose les personnes qui entendront parler de Piwik et qui viennent de Google Analytics. En terme de fonctionnalités quelle est la solution la plus puissante? Oui tout à fait.
Pourquoi j'ai quitté Google Il y a un an le développeur James Whittaker quittait Google et le faisait savoir dans un article cinglant qui en disait long sur l’évolution de l’entreprise, obnubilée par la publicité et la concurrence de Facebook. Nous avons choisi de le traduire car les arguments nous semblent malheureusement tout aussi valables aujourd’hui. Ah, oui, et où est-il allé ensuite ? Réponse ici : Why I joined Microsoft ;) Pourquoi j’ai quitté Google Why I left Google James Whittaker - 13 mars 2012 - Blog personnel(Traduction : ACA, VifArgent, KoS, Eijebong, Alpha, angezanetti, Penguin, audionuma, P3ter, KoS + anonymes) Ok, je cède. Quitter Google ne fut pas une décision facile. Le Google qui me passionnait était une société high tech qui poussait ses employés à innover. Techniquement, je suppose que Google à toujours été une entreprise de publicité, mais pendant la majeure partie de ces trois dernières années, ça n’y ressemblait pas. Sous Eric Schmidt, les pubs étaient toujours à l’arrière plan.
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Episode 215 - Advanced Queries in Rails 3” (view original Railscast) Other translations: This episode will cover advanced queries in Rails 3. In episode 202 [watch, read] we covered the additions to ActiveRecord queries in Rails 3; here we’ll carry on from there and show you some more advanced tips. Using Class Methods Instead of Scopes The application that we’ll be using in this application has two models: Product and Category with a product belonging to a category. /app/models/product.rb class Product < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category scope :discontinued, where(:discontinued => true) scope :cheaper_than, lambda { |price| where("price < ?" class Product < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category scope :discontinued, where(:discontinued => true) scope :cheaper_than, lambda { |price| where("price < ?" In the second named scope we’re using a lambda. class Product < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category scope :discontinued, where(:discontinued => true) def self.cheaper_than(price) where("price < ?" /app/models/products.rb
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: September 2012 In December of 2010, Drew Conway decided to explore in quantitative fashion one of the more popular and contentious subjects debated by developers: the relative popularity of programming languages. To do this, he compared the traction of the languages on both GitHub and StackOverflow, communities that are both popular with developers and yet have somewhat distinct communities. GitHub’s rankings are based on GitHub’s own stacking of the individual languages, while the languages on StackOverflow are ranked according to the volume of tags associated with each language. The result was a plot that featured a high correlation; the popularity on GitHub tended to correlate with the popularity on StackOverflow. The truth, however, is that with respect to language popularity, very little changes on a month to month basis. Here, to begin with, is an up-to-date plot of programming language popularity (click the image for the full size version).