Re: Jun 10 by choonkeat

Repolygonizing Fonts « coding@scribd

The Perils of Stacking « coding@scribd

Facing Fonts in HTML « coding@scribd

Cultivated Play: Farmville | MediaCommons

people can sidestep the harvesting process entirely by spending real money to purchase in-game items ^{link »}

even people who play Farmville want to avoid playing Farmville ^{link »}

As you advance through Farmville , you begin earning rewards that allow you to play Farmville less ^{link »}

if Farmville is laborious to play and aesthetically boring, why are so many people playing it? The answer is disarmingly simple: people are playing Farmville because people are playing Farmville . ^{link »}

Marcel Mauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

gifts are never "free" ^{link »}

Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures

text-rendering: optimizeLegibility ^{link »}

Targeting the iPhone 4 Retina Display with CSS3 Media Queries - WaltPad

media="only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" ^{link »}

This tells browsers to include “retina.css” only if the device pixel ratio is 2 or higher. ^{link »}

The “ retina.css ” file overrides the background images of some of my site’s graphics with higher resolution versions and uses the background-size property to set the correct CSS pixel dimensions. ^{link »}

A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design

Best Practices for Creating an Open Source Policy « Wazi

It's an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! // RailsTips by John Nunemaker

Panic Blog » Saving Icons for Snow Leopard

Mac OS X is a fully managed color system. Colors aren’t just RGB, but also include a colorspace that maps RGB to an abstract color. When any bitmap is drawn to the screen, it’s color-converted. ^{link »}

Interview with Damien Katz – Apache CouchDB

There’s a thing called CouchApps. CouchDB, being an HTTP server, can host applications directly, so you can write applications and forward the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript through CouchDB. When you point your browser at it, the browser comes alive and starts the JavaScript. It becomes interactive as you query and update the server and everything. When everything is served from CouchDB, that’s a CouchApp and you can replicate it around, just like the data. ^{link »}

You run these in your browser, and they’re just like regular web apps. The really cool thing is that once you install CouchDB locally, you can replicate these down and still run them even if you’re disconnected from the network. You have the exact same experience ^{link »}