The Conversation Prism is a visual map of the social media landscape. It’s an ongoing study in digital ethnography that tracks dominant and promising social networks and organizes them by how they’re used in everyday life.
Download larger versions: https://conversationprism.com/free-downloads/
Lately I’ve been fiddeling with cross-platform apps.
Cross-palform can be:
- Android/iPhone on the mobile world
- Windows/Linux/Mac on the desktop/laptop
I’ve been searching on both ends 🙂 but this post is about desktop.
Languages (make a google search on each) aside from the traditional Java, C++, C, Objective C:
D lang, Go lang, Free Pascal(fpc)/Lazarus – Native executables on each platform. Only lazarus gives you fast, simple cross-plaform GUI (Linux,Mac,Windows)
Development Environments for HTML based development:
PHPDesktop, Node-Webkit, nighttrain: These are funny products, you get an *.exe and a sub-folder “www” you then put some code made with Javascript, html, css, (and sometimes PHP,Python,Lua) on that folder. Then, when you launch that *.exe a window opens with a chrome browser frame showing your app. It’s pretty cool!
If you want to do something similar, you could be visit the embedded server mongoose (or a more free for comercial use fork civetweb) they used or the CEF3 (Chrome Embedded Framework).
Tip for node-webkit: Save persistent data in app
Web – Code editors (that use a similar technique as node-webkit)
Solving the Rubik Cube – Theory – http://geometer.org/rubik/group.pdf
learn online – https://iversity.org/
A curated magazine – http://magazine.theascender.org/
Exercices cheat sheets – http://neilarey.com/
learn online – https://learni.st/
Scrolldown interactive page showing distances of solar system and where mankind has reached – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/index.html
well… check it out 🙂 http://madeinthefuture.co/
learn online – https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/all
A New Kind of Instant Messaging
With the rise of government monitoring programs, Tox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is totally free, and comes without advertising.
What Is MINIX 3?
MINIX 3 is a free, open-source, operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a number of isolated, protected, processes in user mode. It runs on x86 and ARM CPUs, is compatible with NetBSD, and runs thousands of NetBSD packages.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2014/09/whats-new-for-designers-september-2014/
Several good links on this post.
Use http://www.initializr.com/ to get an HTML5 Boilerplate template with jQuery, Bootstrap and more (you can choose what to put in and what to leave out)
Then goto http://bootstrapzero.com/bootstrap-templates or http://bootswatch.com/ and get one of the beautiful free templates.
On bootstrapzero, there is also some extra functionality in some themes. But I haven’t tested them yet.
Thinking on using one of these two on my next app.
Bash scripts to set up/bootstrap low end virtual servers
Parse Core – Everything your app needs to save data, be social, and more. Create the perfect app with Parse Core.
Parse Push – Creating, scheduling, and segmenting push notifications just got a whole lot easier.
Parse Analytics – Track any data point in your app in real-time.