I’d like to take a moment and introduce “Walkable Restaurants” (or just “Walkable” as I like to call it), a new application that I built to demonstrate how to create PhoneGap applications using Backbone.js. Built using PhoneGap, Twitter Bootstrap (UI), Leaflet (Maps), Backbone.js, App-UI, Underscore.js, jQuery, and iScroll. Walkable Source (GitHub) →
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Cordova client tool
The command line tool to build, deploy and manage Cordova-based applications. Once installed — via npm — you get to do stuff like this: cordova create ~/KewlApp cd ~/KewlApp cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android cordova plugin add http://example.org/Kewlio-1.2.3.tar.gz cordova build Great to see how the Cordova Platform (formerly known as PhoneGap — …
Geocoder — The almost missing Geocoder PHP 5.3 library.
Uses FreeGeoIp, HostIp, IpInfoDB, Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, Geoip, and CloudMade geocoding services to geocode addresses and IP Addresses. <?php // Create an adapter $adapter = new \Geocoder\HttpAdapter\BuzzHttpAdapter(); // Create a Geocoder object and pass it your adapter $geocoder = new \Geocoder\Geocoder(); // Then, register all providers your want $geocoder->registerProviders(array( new \Geocoder\Provider\YahooProvider( …
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gifsockets
This library shows how to achieve realtime text communication using GIF images as transport. The idea is pretty simple. We use Animated Gif images to stream data in real time to the browser. Since a gif image doesn’t specify how many frames it has, once the browser opens it, it will keep waiting for new …
NoPassword Pattern
NoPassword factors out the password from the registration process. You “register” with an email address and receive a link that gives you a session on that browser until you log out. If you ever need to log in from somewhere else, you can request another email with a link that will log you in wherever …
Burnside, a Tweet-to-Email Gateway
From the guys over at Panic, who handle all support tweets via e-mail using a self-built solution named Burnside which bridges the gap between Twitter and e-mail: Tweets go into a regular mailbox. When we reply, they go back out as tweets. Since multiple people can work out of the same IMAP box, it’s fast …
Adobe Edge Webfonts
Edge Web Fonts is a free service that provides access to a large library of fonts for your web site. It’s one of the Edge Tools & Services from Adobe. Use of the fonts is free and unlimited, see the terms for details. Also integrated in their new set of Edge products Too bad they …
3D Restaurant Menu
Notfound.org
Across the European Union, thousands of children go missing every year. Thanks to the NotFound project, you can make a difference. Install our application and a picture of a missing child automatically gets published on every ‘page not found’ of your website. Together, we can find them Notfound.org →
Adobe Edge Inspect
Adobe just announced that the aforementioned Adobe Shadow will be renamed to Adobe Edge Inspect. We’d like to thank you for using Adobe Shadow during its free preview period on Adobe Labs. On September 24, 2012, we will announce and ship Adobe Edge Inspect, which will replace Adobe Shadow. With this change, they’re releasing a …