Mari0, the game that cleverly mixes Super Mario Bros. and Portal, has been released over the weekend. Available for Mac, Windows & Linux. Source included (written in LÖVE) Download Mari0 → UPDATE The 1.1 download seems broken on OS X. Can be fixed by viewing the package contents and deleting mari0_1.0.love from the Resources Package …
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PHP 5.4.0 Released
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.4.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.x series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Support for traits has been added. Short array syntax has been added, e.g. $a = [1, 2, 3, 4]; or …
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The Inverted Bike Shop
Couple of years ago I had a bike stolen and in the process of looking for a new bike I had some friends convince me that I should build a bike. They walked me through it online and I fell in love with the process, I fell in love with acquiring parts, researching parts. 718 …
Microsoft Holoflector
Holoflector is a unique, interactive augmented-reality mirror. Graphics are superimposed correctly on your own reflection to enable a novel augmented-reality experience. Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012, Holoflector leverages the combined abilities of Kinect and Windows Phone to infer the position of your phone and render graphics that seem to hover above it. (via teusje)
See Through 3D Desktop
Users can casually open up the See-Through 3D Desktop and Type on the keyboard or use a trackpad as in traditional 2D operating environment. Windows or files are perceived to be placed in a 3D space between a screen and the input plane. The user can lift up his hands to reach the displayed windows …
jQuery Anystretch
Anystretch is a jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized background image to any page or block level element. The image will stretch to fit the page/element, and will automatically resize as the window size changes. Handy when having a fluid layout/responsive design. Anystretch Demo → Anystretch (GitHub) → UPDATE: Reader Oemebamo pointed …
The slow elephant in the responsive images room
The past few weeks a lot has been going on around one of the challenges of responsive web design, namely responsive images. The gist of it is pretty straightforward: it’s not a good idea to let a device download a big image if that device is a small-screen device. It’s better to serve that device …
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