Sauce Labs: Cloudified Browser Testing
december 2012 by infovore
Test in multiple browsers, potentially automated, over the net. Latency might be an issue, but worth knowing about, given how much I hate setting up browser test rigs.
browser
testing
development
web
december 2012 by infovore
The Web engineer's online toolbox
november 2012 by infovore
"I wanted to compile a list of online, Web-based tools that Web engineers can use for their work in development, testing, debugging and documentation." It is a really good list (I say this mainly because the first thing on the list is RequestBin, which is the thing I always forget the name of).
tools
web
development
software
programming
november 2012 by infovore
Instagram for webpages (22 May., 2012, at Interconnected)
may 2012 by infovore
"We'll know we're doing it right when half of the pages are ugly."
web
development
media
culture
business
creativity
may 2012 by infovore
Serve - Delicious ERB, Haml + Sass
april 2012 by infovore
Simple dynamic site generator with standardised templating tools: certainly looks nice for building those early-stage prototypes before you need a full backend.
ruby
web
development
erb
haml
sass
markdown
templating
april 2012 by infovore
PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API
april 2012 by infovore
"PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG."
javascript
webkit
web
browsers
headless
testing
rendering
april 2012 by infovore
RequestBin — Collect and inspect HTTP requests, debug webhooks
february 2012 by infovore
"RequestBin lets you create a URL that will collect requests made to it, then let you inspect them in a human-friendly way. Use RequestBin to see what your HTTP client is sending or to look at webhook requests." Which is very useful.
debugging
http
web
programming
february 2012 by infovore
webkinect
february 2012 by infovore
Depth-camera (Kinect) output streamed to webgl over websockets. Gorgeous to watch, snappy to manipulate.
kinect
depthcamera
websockets
webgl
web
beautiful
february 2012 by infovore
Adactio: Journal—Image-y nation
february 2012 by infovore
"I remember when Ajax was getting popular, all the problems associated with frames rose from the grave: bookmarking, breaking the back button, etc. Now that we’re in a time of small-screen devices on low-bandwidth networks, we’re rediscovering a lot of the same issues we had when we were developing for 640 pixel wide screens with 28K or 56K modems." This is the thing.
web
design
doingitright
performance
jeremykeith
february 2012 by infovore
inessential.com: Pub Rules
november 2011 by infovore
"I’d love to run, edit, and write for a publication bigger than just me and my blog. I don’t have time, so I won’t, at least not any time soon. But if I were to run a publication, I’d have a few rules:" These are all correct. Also: they apply to everything from a blog upwards, frankly.
writing
publishing
blogs
web
brentsimmons
november 2011 by infovore
weinre - Home
october 2011 by infovore
"It's a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone." Blimey. That's, um, remarkably useful. Duly noted.
debug
ios
mobile
console
web
development
webkit
october 2011 by infovore
[this is aaronland] Towers of History
june 2011 by infovore
"The value of the web is in its history. The value of the web is that it grows over time and that it spiders out making connections, just as often doubling back on itself to find previously unseen patterns and connections. It is not a linear progression through time and space always discarding the near past. Or if it is then I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time because that sounds about as exciting, and about as valuable, as any given season of canned television programming."
archives
history
internet
web
june 2011 by infovore
Showoff
april 2011 by infovore
"The easiest way to share localhost over the web." Very nice. Smart pricing model, too.
development
web
tools
utilities
april 2011 by infovore
Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog)
march 2011 by infovore
"We were a niche site and in the course of eighteen months had siphoned off about six thousand users from our massive competitor, a pace I was was very happy with and hoped to sustain through 2011. But now the Senior Vice President for Bad Decisions at Yahoo had decided to give us a little help." Maciej on what Scaling Pinboard Fast actually looked like. Some good anecdotes in here.
architecture
web
software
performance
pinboard
scaling
march 2011 by infovore
URL Design — Warpspire
december 2010 by infovore
This is a really good checklist for what modern URL design looks like.
web
design
navigation
url
uri
usability
addressing
december 2010 by infovore
Web narrative « Commonplace
november 2010 by infovore
"Too many times proponents of interactive fiction talk as if it’s a new thing, as if interactivity were never part of the reading experience. How many of us has written in the margin of a book, turned down a corner of a page or smoothed the book back at a particular passage, felt our attention wander as we gaze out the window? We each interpret a story in different ways; it’s how we can re-read a book without getting bored, or watch the same film twice." This is cracking stuff from Kat; I am glad she's written it down.
stories
narrative
web
katsommers
november 2010 by infovore
Nick Sweeney · what Bagpuss can teach us about the internet
september 2010 by infovore
"...the internet’s endless pathways turn our simple discoveries into expeditions that reveal the worlds in which those things have lived, taking the role of archivists and archaeologists of pasts that overlay and intertwine." This is lovely.
bagpuss
archaeology
archives
internet
web
history
historiography
september 2010 by infovore
WebAPI - Team Fortress Wiki
july 2010 by infovore
"This page documents the web API calls that allow you to retrieve information from the item system in Team Fortress 2." Steam now has a Web API. Ooooooooh.
valvesoftware
games
teamfortress2
steam
api
development
web
july 2010 by infovore
Glitch
february 2010 by infovore
"Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web. It is currently in development and will launch late in 2010. Private alpha is beginning shortly and a public beta period will begin this summer." Exciting!
games
glitch
tinyspeck
social
web
february 2010 by infovore
Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up | Geek Gestalt - CNET News
february 2010 by infovore
Daniel Terdiman interviews Stewart Butterfield and Cal on Glitch, which is what Tiny Speck are making. Good interview, and worth noting just how often they threw things out.
games
tinyspeck
glitch
social
web
stewartbutterfield
calhenderson
february 2010 by infovore
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
october 2009 by infovore
"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library." Looks really rather interesting, and potentially beautiful.
javascript
graphics
library
web
vector
svg
design
visualisation
october 2009 by infovore
SPARQL By Example (1)
october 2009 by infovore
Really excellent presentation on the basics of SPARQL - lots of good examples, lots of hands-on stuff, and clear. Worth going back to.
tutorial
presentation
data
semanticweb
web
programming
rdf
sparql
semantic
october 2009 by infovore
Matasano Security LLC - Chargen - Indie Software Security: A ~12 Step Program
september 2009 by infovore
"...we roped in Nate McFeters, another local, and put together a security talk for indie Mac developers with no budget for security. What does a security talk for Mac developers look like? As it turns out, it’s very much like the talk we think every indie developer, Mac or not, should see, and it’s very much unlike the talk the rest of the security industry is giving." Good stuff: simple, clear, well-thought out, and very hard to argue with.
online
web
development
programming
security
september 2009 by infovore
Embeddable Google Document Viewer
september 2009 by infovore
"Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online." Ooh, that's useful.
google
pdf
tools
embedding
web
online
september 2009 by infovore
IE6ify Bookmarklet
july 2009 by infovore
"After years of observation and reverse engineering I am proud to say I have been able to reproduce the IE6 algorithm to break even the most standards-compliant websites." Hur hur hur.
ie6
html
development
web
browser
standardscompliance
oops
july 2009 by infovore
we are all screen readers now (tecznotes)
june 2009 by infovore
"Fast-forward ten years, and I'm now using all those accessibility features on a daily basis. At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative (browsing) devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone."
text
web
reading
mikemigurski
words
information
accessibility
content
semanticmarkup
doingitright
june 2009 by infovore
GameSetWatch - Opinion/Round-Up: The State Of Social Gaming
june 2009 by infovore
"I think that there are really obvious reasons this isn't currently happening. Tech-oriented, web-trained, fast-paced, hard-nosed Silicon Valley culture is not really that similar to game developer culture. Outside of GDC Austin... I haven't seen a lot of opportunities for the two industries to mix. Most crucially, everybody's too damn busy trying to get their jobs done to really spend a lot of time or thought on the issue." That gap in culture is something that still fascinates me.
games
social
facebook
platform
culture
web
socialsoftware
gaas
june 2009 by infovore
Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity | FactoryCity
june 2009 by infovore
"This is what Tim O’Reilly warned about in his definition of Web 2.0. He said that one of the new kinds of lock-in in the era of [cloud computing] will be owning a namespace." Chris Messina, being thoughtful about the Facebook Usernames issue...
facebook
identity
lockin
namespaces
web
socialnetworks
june 2009 by infovore
KOKOGIAK - One Year Later...
june 2009 by infovore
Alan Taylor on a year of the Big Picture. It's been a successful one, if you ask me, and it's a wonderful site; there are few updates in my RSS reader I look forward to as much as it.
photography
journalism
online
web
bigpicture
boston
blogs
june 2009 by infovore
Charles Pooter (pooter2009) on Twitter
april 2009 by infovore
Kevan is publishing parts of Diary of a Nobody on Twitter. Makes sense, really.
books
web
twitter
pooter
diaryofanobody
publishing
april 2009 by infovore
The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
march 2009 by infovore
The Guardian Open Platform launches, with their Content API, their Data Store, and a selection of client libraries for the API (one of which I did a smidge of work on). This is not just a good thing, it's a good thing Done Right, and I'm looking forward to what's next from the Open Platform team.
platform
web
guardian
data
journalism
api
content
openplatform
march 2009 by infovore
scraplab : instant sinatra deployment with heroku
march 2009 by infovore
Tom's been poking Heroku, and now, so have I. It's proper brilliant: a rackup file, a tiny Sinatra app, and the Heroku gem, and you're building webapps in ten minutes. It's crazy and brilliant, and exactly the kind of thing of which we need more of.
programming
ruby
web
brilliant
deployment
heroku
lightweight
sinatra
march 2009 by infovore
Godbit Project | Pagination with Code Igniter
march 2009 by infovore
Useful tutorial on building Pagination, that goes beyond the Pagination library and points out what you need to be doing with the Model, too.
programming
tutorial
development
web
framework
php
pagination
codeigniter
march 2009 by infovore
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
february 2009 by infovore
Some well-worn tales here, but also some good new ones, particularly when it comes to query-profiling and all forms of caching.
tips
ruby
performance
development
web
rails
scaling
deployment
february 2009 by infovore
WikipathS: The Great Web Race | Play This Thing!
february 2009 by infovore
"...you go to any page on Wikipedia; a "start" button appears on the page. You click it, and it sends you to a random Wikipedia page, and then displays your "target" page in a box at the bottom of the browser window (as shown in the illo above). Your goal is to navigate from the start page to the target page, using only links in the main body of each article; the game is timed, so presumably you're attempting to do it in the minimum amount of time." A Greasemonkey/js entrant to the Global Game Jam - unusual, to say the least, and an interesting move.
games
web
javascript
greasemonkey
wikipedia
navigation
february 2009 by infovore
Bulletproof Mobile Device Detection and Style Sheets without User Agent Detection or Server-Side Scripting - Bushido Designs Web Development Blog
february 2009 by infovore
Which is the sensible way to do things, and this feels about right.
design
mobile
development
web
markup
browser
css
devices
february 2009 by infovore
Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks
february 2009 by infovore
"...using these guidelines, and building on the experience of much more knowledgeable type gurus, I have compiled a list of font stacks that will both open up more font possibilities for web designers, and hopefully offer more appropriate substitutes:" That's interesting; not sure how appropriate it is, but they're good uses of the cascade, by and large.
design
web
typography
css
fonts
february 2009 by infovore
ABA | wonderfl build flash online
february 2009 by infovore
All Kenta Cho's code on wonderfl.
programming
flash
games
web
kentacho
code
february 2009 by infovore
nanoc: a Ruby CMS that generates static HTML » home
january 2009 by infovore
"nanoc is a tool that runs on your local computer and compiles Markdown, Textile, Haml, etc. documents into static web pages, ready for uploading to any web host." Easily build static sites with a teeny bit of templating.
ruby
generation
web
publishing
cms
html
static
templating
january 2009 by infovore
IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check -
january 2009 by infovore
"Unlike other screenshot services, we are able to process a large number of capturing jobs in parallel and in realtime, making it the fastest service that we know of." Ooh. That could be useful.
design
web
tool
utility
browsertesting
compatibility
january 2009 by infovore
XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet - OWASP
january 2009 by infovore
"This article provides a simple positive model for preventing XSS using output escaping/encoding properly. While there are a huge number of XSS attack vectors, following a few simple rules can completely defend against this serious attack." Pretty comprehensive, and some clear guidelines if, like me, you're unsure where to start when protecting against XSS.
security
development
web
reference
xss
january 2009 by infovore
AJAX APIs Playground
january 2009 by infovore
Playground for Google's Ajax APIs. Well implemented, and very useful.
development
web
api
google
testing
tool
january 2009 by infovore
scraplab : saturday saw the inaugural papercamp prototype...
january 2009 by infovore
"Compared to a standard web (un)conference where everyone knows their space, expertise and opinions, here lots (most?) of us were exploring stuff outside of our day job and business-as-usual. It was passionate and interesting and I felt completely out of my depth, which was was great. So in 2009, less of the comfort zone stuff please, and more like this." I can get behind that.
web
making
technology
comfort
papercamp
january 2009 by infovore
Justice Will Take Us Millions Of Intricate Moves
january 2009 by infovore
Leonard Richardson's talk from QCon, about REST, his work on Canonical's Launchpad and its web service, and some useful history for anyone wanting to contextualise web services as part of the web.
programming
history
development
web
api
webservices
rest
leonardr
january 2009 by infovore
12 resources for getting a jump on HTML 5 ~ Authentic Boredom
january 2009 by infovore
"This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a start. In each of these you’ll find other resources to help you dig deeper." Which, right now, is what I need. For a former front-end-dev, I'm a bit behind the curve.
tips
development
web
markup
resources
html5
dev
january 2009 by infovore
HTTP Client - Mac Developer Tool for HTTP Debugging
december 2008 by infovore
"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages." Oh, that could come in handy.
development
web
http
debugging
december 2008 by infovore
Katz Got Your Tongue? » Rails and Merb Merge
december 2008 by infovore
"Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation." Yehuda Katz weighs in with a great, informative post.
programming
development
ruby
rails
rubyonrails
web
software
merb
december 2008 by infovore
Riding Rails: Merb gets merged into Rails 3!
december 2008 by infovore
"Merb and Rails already share so much in terms of design and sensibility that joining forces seemed like the obvious way to go. All we needed was to sit down for a chat and hash it out, so we did just that." No, really. Not an April Fool. It sounds like the architecture changes that are going to be made are going to be a big win for Rails 3. Looking forward to it.
programming
development
ruby
rails
web
frameworks
merb
december 2008 by infovore
Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
december 2008 by infovore
"I’d recommend that if you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface design and recognize that when you build a “desktop in the web browser”-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave. This choice may have significant negative impact on learnability, pleasantness of use, and adoption." Yes.
interaction
design
web
ux
usability
aesthetics
billhiggins
december 2008 by infovore
Visualising a forum thread - dpreview.com Developer blog : Digital Photography Review
december 2008 by infovore
Some interesting visualisations of the way forum threads on dpreview - which has nested threads in posts - grow and progress. Interesting for the patterns it throws up, and somewhat useful, if only for rough, high-level analysis.
flash
visualization
forums
community
discussion
web
dpreview
trees
networks
december 2008 by infovore
paulhammond.org: Minimuni
december 2008 by infovore
"As the about page says, if you live exactly 6 minutes from Sunset Tunnel East Portal, 8 minutes from Duboce and Church, and 10 minutes from Church Station you may find it useful too." Bespoke tools for yourself that might happen to be useful to others. I like this a lot.
travel
muni
sf
web
application
timetable
personal
situated
software
december 2008 by infovore
i made this. you play this. we are enemies.
december 2008 by infovore
Um. An "artwork/game/digital poem/world of scribbles" from Jason Nelson. Stop trying to "get it".
satire
google
yahoo
web
flash
games
art
poem
experimental
december 2008 by infovore
The Grid System
december 2008 by infovore
"The ultimate resource in grid systems."
resource
grid
design
layout
web
reference
december 2008 by infovore
GameSetWatch - Exploring Online Worlds: The Oddness Of Trukz
november 2008 by infovore
"Though few gamers might be interested in long haul trucking, there is nothing wrong with concentrating on a small group of gamers and offering them the best experience they can get within their limited requirements. In fact, the more MMO developers who realize this—that a small group of loyal players is better than a huge group of disinterested players—the better, honestly." Very true - a nice conclusion to Matthew Kumar's round-up of a somewhat niche - but interesting sounding - browser MMO.
games
mmo
trukz
online
multiplayer
web
browser
november 2008 by infovore
Alistair.Cockburn.us | Nielsen on agile and usability
november 2008 by infovore
"Just remember, 'There’s only us.'" Some good analysis; fair and even-handed.
usability
interaction
design
uxd
ucd
agile
development
web
teams
management
november 2008 by infovore
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing
november 2008 by infovore
"IE 6 is a riskier proposition, but can show improved image resizing when the AlphaImageLoader CSS filter is applied, the same filter commonly used for properly displaying PNGs with alpha transparency." Oh, that's interesting.
ui
polish
ie6
ie
internetexplore
web
development
image
sizing
november 2008 by infovore
Lost Garden: The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides
october 2008 by infovore
"My talk was on building an application that rescued princesses. The goal was to give interaction designers some insight into how game design might be applied to the domain of more utilitarian applications." Some really good insight, presented in a very clear manner. DanC is, as usual, on fire. Need to digest this slowly, but it certainly overlaps with a lot of my thinking.
games
design
play
application
interaction
web
userexperience
october 2008 by infovore
Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs
october 2008 by infovore
A neat summary of what's available out there; I use Blueprint for prototyping, but it's interesting to see what else is available - particularly the more stripped-down frameworks.
css
design
code
web
layout
framework
prototyping
october 2008 by infovore
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
october 2008 by infovore
"Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections. Here are a few of the lessons we learned (sometimes painfully) while developing this site." Really excellent article from code.flickr on building their new mobile/iPhone site.
web
development
mobile
optimization
javascript
css
iphone
flickr
october 2008 by infovore
Huffduffer
october 2008 by infovore
"# Find links to audio files on the Web. # Huffduff the links—add them to your podcast. # Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds." It's like delicious for audio, but it spits out a podcast. Some really lovely work from Jeremy.
web
application
webapp
hfdf
podcast
filtering
social
aggregation
october 2008 by infovore
T=Machine » Cultural differences: game developers vs web developers
october 2008 by infovore
Adam's a smart guy and all, but god, most of this just really rubs me the wrong way. He's correct about business (or rather, he's correct about many of the things I hate about Web Entrepreneurship at the moment); I don't really think his views on product design ring true, though.
design
web
games
industry
comparison
development
product
october 2008 by infovore
Wilson Miner
october 2008 by infovore
Wilson Miner redesigns again, and it's _gorgeous_. The subtle transparency of the black text in RGBa values, to pick up a hint of the underlying green, is a lovely touch.
design
xhtml
css
web
grid
colour
october 2008 by infovore
zengestrom.com: Social objects, power, stickiness, and love
october 2008 by infovore
"An object provides for [the wants we define ourselves as] through the lack it displays." Jyri Engeström on social objects and the way they create wants, fulfil needs, and they way that drives our behaviour around them. Jolly good.
srs
web
socialobjects
jyriengestrom
socialsoftware
sociology
culture
needs
wants
october 2008 by infovore
Wonderland: Turbine's MMO 2.0 pres
october 2008 by infovore
Detailed write-up from Alice of a presentation from Turbine - the stuff on where to draw boundaries between game and web is really, really interesting.
turbine
web
games
mmo
play
social
socialsoftware
october 2008 by infovore
Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets « OUseful.Info, the blog…
october 2008 by infovore
"So to recap, we have scraped some data from a wikipedia page into a Google spreadsheet using the =importHTML formula, published a handful of rows from the table as CSV, consumed the CSV in a Yahoo pipe and created a geocoded KML feed from it, and then displayed it in a Yahoo map." Wow, etc.
yahoo
google
wikipedia
cloudcomputing
web
tools
scraping
october 2008 by infovore
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Web Inspector Redesign
october 2008 by infovore
Web Inspector gets an overhaul; it's looking pretty nice, now.
webkit
safari
web
browser
development
tools
debug
october 2008 by infovore
Home - Pencil Project
october 2008 by infovore
"The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use." Hmn.
design
prototyping
wireframe
web
interaction
wireframing
october 2008 by infovore
Rososo, the peaceful newsreader
october 2008 by infovore
"Rososo shows you which bookmarks have updated, and hides the rest. It is a good alternative to newsreaders, which, like your email inbox, tend to accumulate obligation and guilt." Not sure about only showing sites, rather than content, but I like the idea of peaceful software a lot.
web
feedreader
feeds
rss
news
reader
october 2008 by infovore
Nostalgia - Laughing Meme
september 2008 by infovore
"You know the [dark days] when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it — building meaningful, crazy, artistic cool stuff, and the ethos of the social web war born, back before that meant more then widget crazy/Facebook-tulip-bloom-madness. Yeah, that sure sucked."
web
business
downturn
boom
bust
startup
creativity
september 2008 by infovore
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com
september 2008 by infovore
"Director of Community Heather Champ doesn't just guard the pool and blow the occasional whistle; it's a far more delicate, and revealing, dance that keeps the user population here happy, healthy and growing." A nice SFGate piece that at least acknowledges the complexities of community management.
socialsoftware
web
flickr
communitymanagement
moderation
september 2008 by infovore
Google Analytics Hack - obtaining full referring URL
september 2008 by infovore
This might come in handy sometime.
referers
tutorial
tracking
analytics
statistics
metrics
googleanalytics
web
september 2008 by infovore
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline
september 2008 by infovore
A few notes on Flickr's queueing systems.
flickr
queue
queueing
development
scaling
scalability
web
programming
september 2008 by infovore
Gamasutra - Moving From MMO To Web: What's The Story?
september 2008 by infovore
"People think the interface is the game, and I think that is kind of backwards. I think the game is the game, and we should be thinking what are the many interfaces to it... you touch Twitter in many ways, you touch Facebook in many ways." Raph Koster. But you guessed that, right?
web
mmo
social
software
design
socialsoftware
socialnetworking
casual
play
games
september 2008 by infovore
Gamasutra - AGDC: Building Battlefield Heroes , EA's First Free To Play Game
september 2008 by infovore
"His advice for those attempting a project like this, is to get people who understand the web. DICE hired a web development director, and a web producer. "Without those people, we would have never made it as far as we have," he says. He also recommends a web tech director, which DICE did not need to hire "because we had a team in DICE who were pretty strong."" Excellent article about building games for the online age; the section on the socially-driven BH website is very incisive.
battlefieldheroes
dice
ea
games
development
casual
online
web
social
september 2008 by infovore
Bandcamp
september 2008 by infovore
"Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff." Via Waxy; looks really excellent, and some wonderful stat-gathering tools for bandowners.
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september 2008 by infovore
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