Design Spartan : Art digital, digital painting, webdesign, illustration et inspiration… From up North - High quality design inspiration - Part 2 I just love it when companies think outside of the box and uses creativity to market their products. One company that frequently does this is McDonalds and here’s a collection of my favorite McDonalds ads. Which one is your favorite? Official sponsor Torino 2006 Three Battle Tested Ways to Install PostgreSQL Having run over 100 students through my Ruby on Rails courses, I've come up with some straight forward ways to install PostgreSQL without too much pain. Here is how I do it: PostgreSQL is a relational database manager that keeps getting more and more popular within the web development community. It has taken over from MySQL as the preferred tool for production quality, scalable databases. The rise in popularity is likely due to the backlash from Oracle purchasing and messing with MySQL, Heroku choosing Postgres as the preferred database in production, and Postgres' faster pace of development of new features like Arrays and HStore. How to Install Postgres on Mac OS X There are a lot of confusing options for installing PostgreSQL. I prefer to use the homebrew package manager because it makes it easier to keep the software up-to-date. This lesson below will teach you how to install PostgreSQL, the easy way, on a Mac. Open up the Terminal Install Homebrew Caveats: Start homebrew installation copy
[WEBDESIGN] Comment bien choisir ses couleurs pour créer un site Vous êtes nombreux à créer des sites internet, ou des supports de communications avec des choix de couleurs judicieux. Mais nous ne sommes pas tous experts, et certains ne savent pas comment allier les couleurs entre elles. Nous allons voir quelques exemples qui seront illustrés à l’aide d’un cercle chromatique. Nous allons également voir comment fonctionnent les couleurs. Les couleurs primaires sont les couleurs principales, toutes les autres couleurs découlent de celles-ci. Les couleurs secondaires, appelées également couleurs binaires sont un mélange direct des couleurs primaires. Les couleurs tertiaires également appelés couleurs intermédiaires sont réaliser grâce au mélange d’une couleur primaire et d’une couleur secondaire. Les couleurs complémentaires sont la base de la création d’une charte graphique, on ne peut pas, ou alors avec beaucoup de mal créer une charte avec des couleurs qui ne s’accordent pas.
Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends Why You Should Get Excited About Emotional Branding Globalization, low-cost technologies and saturated markets are making products and services interchangeable and barely distinguishable. As a result, today’s brands must go beyond face value and tap into consumers’ deepest subconscious emotions to win the marketplace. In recent decades, the economic base has shifted from production to consumption, from needs to wants, from objective to subjective. We’re moving away from the functional and technical characteristics of the industrial era, into a time when consumers are making buying decisions based on how they feel about a company and its offer. Read more... A Guide To Validating Product Ideas With Quick And Simple Experiments You probably know by now that you should speak with customers and test your idea before building a product. Mistakes include testing the wrong aspect of your business, asking the wrong questions and neglecting to define a criterion for success. Read more... Read more...
git - the simple guide - no deep shit! git - the simple guide just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit ;) by Roger Dudler credits to @tfnico, @fhd and Namics this guide in deutsch, español, français, indonesian, italiano, nederlands, polski, português, русский, türkçe, မြန်မာ, 日本語, 中文, 한국어 Vietnamese please report issues on github Infuse analytics everywhere with the AI-powered embedded analytics platform. setup Download git for OSX Download git for Windows Download git for Linux create a new repository create a new directory, open it and perform a git init to create a new git repository. checkout a repository create a working copy of a local repository by running the command git clone /path/to/repository when using a remote server, your command will be git clone username@host:/path/to/repository workflow add & commit You can propose changes (add it to the Index) using git add <filename> git add * This is the first step in the basic git workflow. pushing changes branching update & merge tagging log useful hints guides
BLUE VERTIGO | Web Design Resources Links | Last update AUG.27.2012 Tutorial - How To Structure a Meteor Application So far, all of the example applications in the previous tutorials have had the simplest possible file structures: a HTML file a JavaScript file a CSS file This has been fine for introducing basic concepts but it’s rare for real-world applications to be structured so simply. That’s not to say that the average Meteor application will have a complicated structure, but it will certainly evolve as we write more code and make better use of Meteor’s features. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of how to structure an application. Keeping your files and folders organised in a logical manner. I’ll include some links at the end of the post if you want to dive deeper. 1. Meteor doesn’t enforce any style of structuring your files and folders. There are some things to keep in mind, which is what we’ll cover through the rest of the article, but in general: Every project will differ based on that project’s needs. But if you’re not careful, this freedom of choice can cause problems. 2. 3. Conclusion
The Messy Art Of UX Sketching Advertisement I hear a lot of people talking about the importance of sketching when designing or problem-solving, yet it seems that very few people actually sketch. As a UX professional, I sketch every day. I often take over entire walls in our office and cover them with sketches, mapping out everything from context scenarios to wireframes to presentations. My desk. Although starting a prototype on a computer is sometimes easier, it’s not the best way to visually problem-solve. Many articles discuss the power of sketching and why you should do it, but they don’t go into the how or the methods involved. Sketching ≠ Drawing Some of the most effective sketches I’ve seen are far from perfect drawings. Sketching is an expression of thinking and problem-solving.It’s a form of visual communication, and, as in all languages, some ways of communicating are clearer than others.Sketching is a skill: the more you do it, the better you’ll get at it. OK, let’s get started. Work In Layers Technique Why? Tools
Axure and Font Awesome Library Widgets | ButterUI You can get this By following these directions 1) Download the latest Font-Awesome list. 2) Install the Font-Awesome list to your machine fonts dir. 3) Open up Axure 7. 4) Create a new document then go to Publish > Generate HTML File 5) In the popup box add to the Web Fonts box 6) Install my FontAwesomeV4.0.3.rplib which you can download free. * I will continue to add to this as they mature the Font-Awesome icon base. ** Now supporting 1 New Icon Types in 4.0 ** Added Form Control Icons
100 Free PSD Files Every Web Designer Should Have In this post we gather a collection of 100 fully customizable web design elements layered PSD files, easy to use and customize with some adjustment as per your need and can be turned into ready web element. PSD files can be used to create good-looking and eye-catching web design layouts, icons, buttons, any web design elements and much more. There are lots of great designer out there who are regularly sharing some awesome PSDs and resources. Freemium is the new hot thing, and it looks like its here to stay! Upload to Cloud Professional Web Card Profile Pretty little frame Day 176 Beautiful power button, the volume and texture treatment is quite remarkable as well as the 3D look. Download: Pretty little red ribbon (PSD) As you can see, stitches and ribbons are some of the most popular resources in design these days, so hurry up and download this one. Form Message Buttons Download:
Meteor, Cordova, and Famo.us: The Chill Way to Build Apps This is a guest post from Adam Elkassas, one of the co-founders of social mobile app Down to Chill. I’m a twenty-year old programmer and entrepreneur and here’s the story of how I started the social networking company Down to Chill. The Beginning of our Meteor Journey I attended University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Program, where I studied Computer Engineering, Finance, and Statistics before taking a leave of absence after my sophomore year. A year and half ago, I started learning Meteor after trying to find a way to make my college note sharing website Noteriety able to process real time transactions. We built Noteriety completely in Meteor, […] acquiring over 5000 users After frustration with the Ruby on Rails framework in the summer of 2013, my good friend Arjun Jain and I decided to learn Meteor and stumbled upon Discover Meteor. In fact, we ended up taking a Friday night reading the whole book instead of being social 19-year-olds. The Idea The Tech Stack Performance Analysis
“Password incorrect” error - Accounts Help Some examples of apps that do not support the latest security standards include: The Mail app on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 6 or below The Mail app on your Windows phone preceding the 8.1 release Some Mail apps (not built by Google) that come with your Android Phone Some Desktop mail clients like Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird To help keep your account secure, we may block these less secure apps from accessing your account. Upgrade to a more secure app that uses most up to date security measures.
Google Apps SMTP settings to send mail from a printer, scanner, or app - Google Apps Administrator Help You can set up your on-premises multifunction printer, scanner, fax, or application to send email through Google Apps. The three available options are: SMTP relay service, Gmail SMTP server and Restricted Gmail SMTP server. For details about configuring your device or application to send SMTP messages, refer to its documentation. Google Support cannot assist with the configuration settings. SMTP relay service - used to send mail from your organization by authenticating with the IP address(s). The table below will help you decide which one of these options will best meet your needs: You can use the SMTP relay service in the Google Admin console to relay mail from your device or application. Gmail SMTP Server could also be used to relay messages from your device or application. If your device or application supports SSL - connect to smtp.gmail.com on port 465. To connect with SSL, you need to provide a Google username and password for authentication.