This is an impressive piece of work. I’ve always been a sucker for nice looking charts and graphs, and flotr2 helps you build your own in canvas.

I’m definitely keeping this bookmarked for a project or two I’ve got in mind.

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With so much going on with CSS3 it’s sometimes difficult to remember whether or not a specific browser (or specific version of a specific browser) supports a particular feature of CSS3.

Instead of wrestling through docs, something like The CSS3 Test might save you a few minutes here or there. By simply visiting the site in your target browser, you get a nicely organized and color coded outline of the supported CSS3 features.

I just ran the test in Chrome and scored 62% which is a bit surprising to me. As per the note on the site, the tests simply check to see what the browser recognizes, it doesn’t test how anything is implemented, unlike The Acid Test.

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This is a neat resource that could fit well among your bookmarks. A standalone Web app that lets you tinker around with SQL on the fly with no setup friction.

It follows in the footsteps of one of the most useful code-sharing-for-the-purpose-of-debugging ideas I’ve ever seen, the original jsfiddle with the purpose of making it as easy as possible to share an entire front end for the purpose of analysis and assistance. Crazy awesome.

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Speaking of Stripe, this is a neat look into what goes on behind the scenes. Admittedly I wasn’t familiar with the story behind the founders, two brothers with the familiar story of dropping out of Harvard and MIT to start the company.

Stripe is awesome, I look forward to every excuse to use them, but the part that scares me is the bit in the article mentioning that Google Checkout “has their eye on them”. Here’s to hoping their success overshadows even a slight consideration of someday selling up.

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Stripe is killing it. I love every single thing they’ve done and plan on suggesting them heavily to clients from here on out. The opportunities offered with the new Webhooks are super awesome.

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I don’t use Facebook, but good gosh…

… those are big numbers.

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There’s a lot of truth in this post. I’ve spoken to many designers and developers who are simply intimidated by what everyone else is doing. I know it’s completely cliche but honestly: who cares? Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway. Sure there’s some hyperbole, but when it comes to side projects or an idea you have that someone may have done already, go for it.

This article takes a more focused approach into those ideas that you think might just be the one. It very well might be, and your biggest enemy is yourself. Don’t overthink it, but be smart about it.

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PJ is a smart dude. I’m using Iconic on this site and just love what it has blossomed into.

PJ has been researching best practices in implementing a custom icon set via @font-face, specifically focusing on degradation situations and accessibility. By way of Philip Shaw, PJ has been devising a great way to implement Iconic as an icon set.

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This is kind of blowing my mind right now, I’m not sure if it’s because of just seeing zip.js, but the fact that the goal of this library is to parse PSDs is amazing!

I made a quick test PSD catered to psd.js’s capabilities so far and it worked great. Testing a PSD from my latest client project proved to be a challenge but that’s completely expected and I hope to be able to take some time to review the code in more depth to see just how this thing is working.

Perhaps what excites me most is the roadmap for psd.js. I’m imagining the Photoshop-less tools that could be made to either extract data or more impressively convert data to new file formats for alternative image editors that have similar functionality to Photoshop.

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I still nearly do a double take when I see headlines like this. JavaScript for disk operations? The true scope of HTML 5 is still settling in for me I suppose, but libraries like these are going to bring Web apps to the next level. Beyond that, a part of me feels that HTML 5 has surpassed the term “Web app” and something more appropriate should take it’s place, I just have no idea what that phrase should be.

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