This week with topics from mobile-development, javascript, HTML5 and quantum-physics ..

Ever wondered why it’s hard for you to argue design decisions? Ever said “We should not go for that, we had some problems in past projects, but I have no clue what project or problem that was” in a meeting. Ever made the same design failure twice? I do, or more precise I did but I quit!

Some time ago I was really annoyed of not being able to argue a design decision, and I’ve no clue what decision that was, with real arguments but with the words “We just should not do that!”. So I started by design/architecture log in which I’m recording as a retrospective design decisions with their consequences and context.

Interesting Thingys is a gazette in the blog that summarizes a week of blog articles, links, specifications, demos, news or more general “thingys” that we stumble upon in our journey through the world wide web.

HTML5

• How a web application can download and store over 2GB without you even knowing it
• Maintaining CSS Style States using “Infinite” Transition Delays

.NET

• ASP.NET MVC now OpenSource - .. hosted on CodePlex with GIT support.

JavaScript

• Hammer.js - A javascript library for multi-touch gestures
• How to write low garbage real-time Javascript - A great article describing the pitfalls of the JavaScript garbage collector, when doing game development.
• Fibers and Threads in node.js – what for? - describes the benefits and shortcommings of using fibers and threads within node.js

HTML5

• Strobe Tuner - a FFT/Pitch Detection demo using HTML5 Audio/webGL.

Javascript

• Javascript Resources - .. every javascript developer should know.
• jquery scroll path - a jquery plugin to manipulate the scroll path.
• wysihtml5 - wysiwyg meets twitter bootstrap.
• Impressionist - a visual editor for impress.js

Interesting Thingys is a gazette in the blog that summarizes a week of blog articles, links, specifications, demos, news or more general “thingys” that we stumble upon in our journey through the world wide web.

Mobile Development

• Sencha Touch - a HTML5 Mobile Application Framework, version 2.0 released.

CSS

• Replacing the -9999px hack (aka new image replacement)
• CSS4 (!) Selectors
• CSS 4 Selectors - the non shortened version

First of all I have to admit that I’m an IDE guy. I’m using command line tools, Vi , have gnu tools installed on my Windows box and so on. That brings me to the next thing I have to admit: I’m using Windows.

I love using WebStorm for tinkering with Node.js. I love WebStorm for two reasons:

• The JavaScript syntax completion is somehow crazy clever
• It allows me to stick with my Eclipse keyboard schema

Interesting Thingys is a gazette in the blog that summarizes a week of blog articles, links, specifications, demos, news or more general “thingys” that we stumble upon in our journey through the world wide web.

HTML5/CSS

• presentation frameworks - using javascript + css3
• web-worker in HTML5 - Old but still worthy to read:

Mobile

• scale to mobile browser - Short description of “viewport” meta tag und how mobile-browser scale

Interesting Thingys is a gazette in the blog that summarizes a week of blog articles, links, specifications, demos, news or more general “thingys” that we stumble upon in our journey through the world wide web.

HTML/CSS

• html5please.com - Explore html5 features (categories: supported by browsers, use with caution, fallbacks, polyfills, …)
• boilerstrap - Template for HTML5Boilerplate and Twitters Bootstrap CSS (+modernizr, js compression, coffeescript support, sass, less)… Plus rake-tasks.
• hype - Interesting editor (GUI) for HTML5/CSS3 Keyframe animations & animated content… (sorry: mac only)
• Shinydemos - New html5 showcase by opera.

The problem

You want to migrate a MSSql database to MySql. You have rather large schema and don’t want to do it by hand.

Interesting Thingys is a gazette in the blog that summarizes a week of blog articles, links, specifications, demos, news or more general “thingys” that we stumble upon in our journey through the world wide web.

CSS/HTML/Frontend

• HTML5Rocks - Updated website of “HTML5Rocks” with a bunch of useful information!
• Interview Question for Frontend Developers
• CSS without HTML - How to build a website without HTML.