CreativeJS for non-coders on Vimeo
A fantastic taste of what you can expect in Seb’s Creative Coding workshop.
Tags: coding
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.