Seb Lee-Delisle: Playing With Code
A nice feature on Seb in the latest issue of Make magazine.
Tags: coding
JoshEmerson.co.uk · Blog · Code Club Raspberry Pi Hack Day
Code Club + Raspberry Pi + Hack Day = Awesomeness from Josh
Learnable Programming
It’s a long one, and it’s kind of meta, but if you have any interest in the idea of programming, this in-depth knowledge bomb from Bret Victor is well worth your time.
Work is being done here on Vimeo
A short piece on the experiment that James conducted with Lighthouse in the foyer of the Cleareft office building, trying to show some kind of physical representation of coding.
Creative JavaScript Training on Vimeo
I’m going to be attending Seb’s CreativeJS and HTML5 course in Brighton on September 13th and 14th …and I strongly suspect that it’s going to be great.
If Hemingway wrote JavaScript by fat xxx
This is a rather lovely way to show that in JavaScript, as in Perl, there’s always more than one way to skin a cat (in whatever idiom you prefer).
How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
Some good database character-encoding advice from Mathias.
Code Club - The Interview - YouTube
It’s kinda nuts that in the space of just a few months, Code Club has gone from being an idea by Clare and Linda into something with an all-star promo video.
necolas/idiomatic-css
Some sensible ideas about having a consistent CSS writing style.
CreativeJS for non-coders on Vimeo
A fantastic taste of what you can expect in Seb’s Creative Coding workshop.
Code Club
This is an excellent idea: get a whole bunch of after-school code clubs going to teach kids how to code in Scratch.
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
A genuinely amusing alternative history of programming languages.
Home - Transloadit
A very handy looking API that turns file uploading (and conversion) into a service.
New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
Some of the best neologisms in programming, many of them to do with bug-fixing.
Entity Code - A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Entities Codes
A handy page for looking up HTML entities.
?C ?V Character
A very useful tool for getting character entities (use the "as HTML" option) in one click.
Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics
A cautionary tale that explains just why the password anti-pattern needs to die. Coding horror indeed: in this case, 1,777 GMail accounts were compromised.
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
A handy tool for grabbing the geocoordinates for a location.
Snipplr - Code 2.0
One of many code-snippet sharing sites out there but this one has some nice features like tagging and popularity. The interface is yuck though. dpaste,com is nicer but more ephemeral.
Mysql database migration and special characters | Orthogonal Thought
This article is a life-saver for me. I'm constantly having trouble with special characters when I'm backing up databases for local copies of my sites.
Monkey Bites
A brilliant list of New Year's Resolutions for Coders.