OpenDNS > Support > CacheCheck OpenDNS has huge caches, which is one reason OpenDNS makes your Internet experience faster. With CacheCheck, you can check what OpenDNS customers see when they request a domain. If there’s something amiss, you may refresh OpenDNS’s cache for that domain.
A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. When interrupted during an edit of a method, only 10% of times did a programmer resume work in less than a minute. A programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day (via Programmer Interrupted )
Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 19 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek (…) They call their series Exactitudes : a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. ...
This tool was born from the daily toil of finding sample avatars for UI mockups (via User Inter Faces )
Visualizing CAMediaTiming To show the different timing related properties, both on their own and in combination, I’m animating a color from orange to blue. The block shows the progress of the animation from start to finish (orange to blue) and the ticks on the timeline are one second apart. (via Controlling Animation Timing )
Heap – Capture Everything Analytics for web and iOS Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.
Intercom | Communicate personally with every single customer Activate and retain more customers. Intercom combines marketing automation, CRM, and support in one simple app, making it remarkably easy to communicate with your customers at every stage of the funnnel.
Ravi Parikh’s Website Wonderful visualisations made by Ravi Parikh.
Size Calculator Nick Sherman demo’d Size Calculator , a web application created to bring screen design a capability that print design has enjoyed for 500 years. (via Web Type, Meet Size Calculator ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post )
Support Guidelines « Vesper Dave Wiskus ’ guidelines for handling @vesperapp support emails: Use Names Everyone Gets a Reply No Arguments Keep Records Be Honest Sooner is Better Ask for a Favor Say ‘Thank You’
WORDOID – Creative Naming Service Wordoids are made-up words. They look nice and feel great. They are good for naming things. And more…
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. Invictus , poem by William Ernest Henley in 1875 (Victorian)
Mocks Aren’t Stubs Meszaros uses the term Test Double as the generic term for any kind of pretend object used in place of a real object for testing purposes. The name comes from the notion of a Stunt Double in movies. (…) Meszaros then defined four particular kinds of double: Dummy objects are passed around but never actually used. Usually they are just used to fill parameter lists. Fake objects actually have working implementations, but usually take some shortcut which makes them not suitable for production (an in memory database is a good example). Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what’s programmed in for the test. Stubs may also record information about calls, such as an email gateway stub that remembers the messages it ‘sent’, or maybe only how many messages it ‘sent’. Mocks are what we are talking about here: objects pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the calls they are expected to receive. The classical TDD style is to use real objects if possible and a double if it’s awkward to use the real thing. So a classical TDDer would use a real warehouse and a double for the mail service. The kind of double doesn’t really matter that much. ...
::: {style=“margin-bottom:5px”} If programming languages were religion{target="_blank"} from katherine goodier{target="_blank"} ::: (via If programming languages were religion ) I originally wrote this article in December 15, 2008, and posted it on the Aegisub blog. I’m re-posting it here for archival purposes. — Rodrigo Monteiro ( Source: http://www.slideshare.net/ )
::: {style=“margin-bottom:5px”} O macaco de rabo cortado{target="_blank"} from teresaneves{target="_blank"} ::: (via O macaco de rabo cortado) Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160411095831/https://www.slideshare.net/teresaneves/o-macaco-de-rabo-cortado-16342709 ( Source: http://www.slideshare.net/ ) —//— O Macaco de Rabo Cortado, por António Torrado https://www.lapismagico.com/contos-tradicionais/macaco-rabo-cortado/
Luis Correia Carmelo conta a A Viagem do Tio Armindo – SAPO Vídeos
As a doctor, I don’t have to convince someone that vaccines don’t cause harm; I just have to convince them that not vaccinating does. Saul Hymes (via Give It Your Best Shot — The Magazine )
CAPPTIVATE.co Capptivate.co captures fleeting transitions between app screens and delightful animated UI elements that we’ll otherwise lose forever as apps and operating systems continue to evolve. Categories: Basic Motion Fade Grow or Shrink Motion Path Move or Slide Point At Spin or Rotate Camera Focus or Blur Frame Parallax Rotate Around or Sweep Zoom Simulations Align to Motion Attract or Repel Bounce Collide Ease Drift Gravity Orbit Around Spring Vortex
How Much Does It Cost To Make An App? Estimate the cost of an app easily using this handy tool. This budget range is a rough estimate based on the amount of time it will take to complete your project and a recommended budget of $60-100 USD per hour (market rate for quality talent is typically in this range). Considering the base rates stated in the tool, we can derive the following effort estimates which, in my opinion, are much more interesting to analyse (from a development point of view): ...
Docracy – Free Legal Documents the web’s only open collection of legal contracts and the best way to negotiate and sign documents online. Very interesting “Terms & Conditions” and “Mobile Privacy Policy” examples/templates from Docracy Inc.’s Documents .