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Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Both the BBC and Fox news web sites have recently been redesigned, with the BBC losing its looks and Fox getting neat and serious.
jQuery diagramming with jsPlumb — cool.
Another wonderful blog post by Walter Russell Mead, this time hoping that the blogosphere find a not-so-distant mirror in 18th-century London.
Google argues that its mobile YouTube site is better than its YouTube iPhone app.
Jakob Nielsen tests reading usability on the iPad and Kindle and reports that they’re almost as good as reading on paper. People didn’t like reading on PCs — it reminded them of work.
Falling out of love with the iPad. None of this surprises me.
Wow, icons made entirely in CSS3 (currently Safari, Chrome only).
fter succeeding on a previous job for Vector Media Group of New York City, co-principal Matt Weinberg tapped Engaging.net to build out the ExpressionEngine back-end for a new restaurant web site, alwayshungryny.com. The job contained a particular challenge: a geographical search facility — since dubbed “Create-a-Neighborhood” — wherein Google Maps are integrated with ExpressionEngine’s search.
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Always Hungry New York’s Create-a-Neighborhood search
The formation of a rectangle within a Google Map had already been coded using the Google Maps API; Engaging built on this, integrating a coordinates-based clause to the EE search module that limits results to the area circumscribed by the rectangle. The geography-based search results can then be mixed with keywords and any of scores of categories.
Launched in April 2009, Always Hungry is a valuable resource for New Yorkers and visitors to the city.
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