Campfire Stories: April 16-21
This post was originally published on the Elabs blog, before Elabs and Varvet joined forces.
Monday, April 16
stroll.js
CSS3 scroll effects.
http://lab.hakim.se/scroll-effects/
Big Beards
Most of the guys in the office envy the beard growing prowess of Anders T, but not even he can match the impressive beards of these men.
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/big-beards/
Tuesday, April 17
Integrated Design & Development
CJ talking about the secret ingredient of integrated design and development, in his talk at Scandinavian Developers Conference.
http://speakerdeck.com/u/cjk/p/integrated-design-development
Wednesday, April 18
Mailgun: Programmable Mail Servers
APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email. Nice site too.
The 10 Most Underused ActiveRecord::Relation Methods
Lots of great tips for working with ActiveRecord relations.
http://blog.mitchcrowe.com/blog/2012/04/14/10-most-underused-activerecord-relation-methods/
IKEA Uppleva
The beloved Swedish institution IKEA releases a TV. Pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0Nm7-EuctOs
20,000 Years Ago…
http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/index.htm
Thursday, April 19
Split
Rack-based A/B testing framework.
http://github.com/andrew/split
Pancakes!
Chosen
JavaScript plugin that makes select boxes more user-friendly. Developed by the people at Harvest.
http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
Friday, April 20
Filepicker.io
Web service for letting your users upload files to your app directly from their Dropbox, Facebook, or their computer.
Saturday, April 21
Valve’s "Handbook for New Employees"
The big news last week. Amazing insight into Valve’s unique company culture. Very inspiring. More about this later.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/21/2964991/valves-handbook-for-new-employees-leak
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