jQuery UI Multiselect

Michael Aufreiter:

Whenever you are dealing with Select Multiple inputs, be assured it
hurts. Using Javascript you can spice up that unhandy plain old
vanilla Select Multiple element that comes with your browser. Inspired
by various existing solutions I ended up in creating my own version of
a sortable, searchable Multiselect Widget.


http://quasipartikel.at/2009/05/10/jqueryui-multiselect/
http://michael.github.com/multiselect/

http://github.com/michael/multiselect/

Rack Middleware for Flash Uploads that Degrade Gracefully

Blogged by Brian Racer (who founded Jetpack with Don Ross in 2007):

Browser upload controls have been pretty much the same for years. They
are very difficult to style, and do not look consistent across
browsers. Perhaps the biggest issue with them is they provide no
feedback to the user about how long the submission will take. One
alternative is to use Flash for the uploads. There are numerous
libraries available, I like SWFUpload. Since the reason you are here
is probably because you can’t get it working in Rails, I’m going to
try and help you deal with the quirks associated with using Flash and
Rails together.

http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/10/21/rails-2-3-4-and-swfupload-rack-middlewa...

http://jetpackweb.com/

The Data Liberation Front

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose
singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and
out of Google products. We do this because we believe that any data
that you create in (or import into) a product is your own. We help
and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate"
their products. This is our mission statement:

  
Users own the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's
goal is to give users greater control by making it easier for them to
move data in and out.

  
http://www.dataliberation.org/

JavaScript is dead, long lives JavaScript

V8 JavaScript Engine - V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
 
V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source
browser from Google. It implements ECMAScript as specified in
ECMA-262, 3rd edition, and runs on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X 10.5
(Leopard), and Linux systems that use IA-32 or ARM processors.
 
V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.


It is clear that Google is embracing JavaScript, same cannot be said for others, though [1].
 
 
http://code.google.com/p/v8/
http://tinyclouds.org/node/
http://github.com/ry/node_chat/
 
 
[1] "NEVER rely on JavaScript"
 
JavaScript: Best Practices
Justin Bolter, Technology Evangelist
 
http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/.../td_hyd_javascript_bolter.pdf

Soulellis Studio

Soulellis Studio is a design firm specializing in brand identity and
communications.

 Our team is smart, sharp and savvy. Paul Soulellis is trained as an
architect and has been a visiting critic at Cornell and Columbia, and
frequently lectures on information design and communications. Erik
Vrielink is a graphic designer and graduate of the Rietveld Academie
in Amsterdam. Alison Walsh is our in-house writer and caretaker of the
AP Style Guide. Jamie Kennard is our partner in all things web and
runs Krate. Soulellis Studio and Krate are the creators of Tweeji.

  
http://soulellis.com/work.html
http://soulellis.com/2008/10/an_incredible_collection.html

 http://www.aisleone.net/2008/design/soulellis-studio/ :

 Soulellis Studio is a design firm based in New York City that does an
exceptional job with Helvetica. Their work is reminiscent of the
masterpieces created by such legends as Brockmann and Vignelli.

  
http://ffffound.com/image/3e7d84470bed67e23b9692b5b95893040eaca084

Because dammit - you're a designer, not a mathematician

Susy is a grid system for web designers. Built on the techniques of
Natalie Downe, the Compass authoring framework, and the Sass
meta-language for CSS, Susy brings together the unique semantic
control of hand-written code with the speed of a framework and the
strength needed for a bullet-proof design. With Susy you can build
quick, custom grids that respond to the needs of the user without
giving up design integrity. It's elastic, it's fluid, it's Susy.

 http://www.oddbird.net/susy/