Blog – A place for designers and internet guru's who love to blo Massive Giveaway of Designious Packs – Winners Announced Thanks to everyone who entered our most recent giveaway competition and thanks again to Designious for sponsoring our giveaway with 10 Photoshop Brushes & Mega Vector Packs to three lucky winners. We have randomly selected three luck winners who will be contacted directly by a member of the team at Designious. The winners are: Continue Reading » Creating designs and layouts for an offset printing project may seem like a daunting task, but it really isn’t too difficult. Designious is a small design studio specialized in creating amazing vector art and design elements for designers, today they’re bringing a spectacular giveaway to Kaplang readers. In this contest, Designious will be providing 10 Photoshop Brushes & Mega Vector Packs to three lucky winners. Read on for details on how to participate and check out some of the packs which you could be winning by visiting Designious . Hi there to all our dear readers out there.
Colors There is one simple way to tell if a user interface was designed by a programmer: the colors suck. For the longest time, I had that problem myself, so much that I decided to go grayscale (like this blog) and focus only and exclusively on brightness and contrast. This turned out to be a great strategy: picking colors from a 1D grayscale was way easier than picking it form a 3D solid cut up in 2D rainbowy slices. If we keep the background fixed (doesn’t need to be white!) then we just need to pick the right amount of contrast that we want. This is a very simple and straightforward choice. Let me repeat this because it’s very important: contrast is the basic building block of UI design. It’s trivial for programmers to understand this and the resulting experience is both pleasant and rewarding for them as they never feel they are making random choices or guesses: they need strategies and algorithms. And it blew my mind.
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library QxWT 1.0.0.0 released « Tomsondev Blog Just like the qooxdoo-Team who today released Version 1.0 of their JavaScript library BestSolution.at and UFaceKit.org are proud to annouce (see official announcement here) the availability of QxWT 1.0.0.0 which exposes this fantastic JavaScript-framework to the GWT-community. I know that there’s a bunch of other GWT-UI-libraries but I think QxWT provides features not offered by other libraries available. For me and probably others the dual licensing under LGPL and EPL of both qooxdoo and QxWT is very important because this gives adopters the possibility to use it in commercial as well as opensource applications. Though not the complete qooxdoo-API is wrapped in 1.0.0.0 (~90% of the JavaScript-API available) one can write full featured GWT-Applications with the current set of provided APIs. From a technical point of view QxWT is leveraging the GWT-JSNI calling interface to expose the qooxdoo-JavaScript-API to GWT-Java-Developers. Future plans for QxWT: Like this: Like Loading...
DWR - Easy Ajax for JAVA | Getahead DWR is a Java library that enables Java on the server and JavaScript in a browser to interact and call each other as simply as possible. DWR version 3.0.rc1 is the most recent development release. DWR version 2.0 is the current stable release. Download them now and use DWR in your website in minutes . DWR will generate the JavaScript to allow web browsers to securely call into Java code almost as if it was running locally. With Reverse Ajax , DWR allows Java code running on a server to use client side APIs to publish updates to arbitrary groups of browsers. DWR provides integration with Spring , Struts , Guice , Hibernate and others. DWR is Open Source, available under the Apache Software License v2 . YourKit is kindly supporting open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler. Atlassian provides us with JIRA which is used for issue tracking and Bamboo which is used for continuous integration builds.
cromoart Desktop Calendar – January 2014 2014 begins and we are starting the fourth round of our desktop calendar series. We are looking forward to a successful New Year and wish you all the best. If you want this wallpaper at your desktop feel free to download in different resolutions or tell us if you need something else. [...] Dezember 31, 2013Toni PolkowskiDesign, Photography, Wallpaper Desktop Calendar – December 2013 It's the time of winter and christmas is coming. November 30, 2013Toni PolkowskiDesign, Photography, Wallpaper Desktop Calendar – November 2013 This days it's going to be cold outside and sometimes there is ice, fog and dark clouds. Oktober 31, 2013Toni PolkowskiDesign, Photography, Wallpaper Film Inspiration No. 115 Film Inspiration“ is a serial of short films, trailers, motion graphics and music clips by different artists from across the world introduced here at Cromoart. Oktober 14, 2013Toni PolkowskiFilm Desktop Calendar – October 2013 Desktop Calendar – June 2013
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design CodeBrain.com - Tools & Scripts for WebMasters - Java, JavaScrip It's official: GWT 1.2 released After a couple weeks of fixing all the issues our developer community has so diligently reported in the issue tracker, we are happy to announce the official release of Google Web Toolkit 1.2 today. As we mentioned when we released the 1.2 Release Candidate, you can now develop and debug with GWT on Mac OS X in addition to Linux and Windows. We are pretty proud of this particular feature because GWT is now about as "platform independent" as you can get: develop on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X and deploy to IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera on any platform, without any special cases in your code. (If you want a bit more detail about our implementation of Mac OS X support, our release nomenclature and other tidbits, this recent InfoQ interview may interest you.) We also have already talked about how much faster the 1.2 hosted mode debugging environment is. And of course, there were a few (dozen) bug fixes in 1.2 RC and a few more in the 1.2 release.
The JavaScript Source: Image Effects: Flipflop artatheart US based street artist Paige Smith leaves her mark on buildings with sparkling geometric 3D paper sculptures. The finished shapes represent geodes, crystal, quartz, or any mineral formation that you would normally find in nature. What a lovely and unexpected find for residents in the Los Angeles area. "A parallel aspect of these “geodes” in nature and in the city is they are always unexpected treasures. Images © Paige Smith all rights reserved (via)
Blog Archive » Why Programmers Suck at CSS If I had a dime for every time I heard a web programmer apologize for the way his/her pages looked before revealing them, I certainly wouldn’t need to work anymore. As with color picking, I think that programmers tend to avoid doing certain things not because they are inherently bad at it, but because they don’t know how to proceed. They find themselves in an uncharted and foggy territory, without a map, no sense of direction, and with a limited ability to know if they’re getting any closer to where they want to be. There is a general tendency to believe that programmers can’t style things because they have no style themselves. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think anybody can design something truly beautiful, innovative, simple and that can resonate with a big percentage of the population. Disclaimer: what I describe here is one possible way to achieve my goal. So arm yourself with your favorite editor and your favorite browser and follow me. Em vs. Start by tuning your base font
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