The new Google Web Fonts page has some nice features: currently up to 180 font families, filters to select font genre and thickness, view short or long text samples, view styles within a font family…
Tags: fonts, webfonts, google, googlefonts, fontface, typography
Convert Flash .SWF files to HTML5 animation. Won’t work on every .swf, but still pretty neat.
Tags: flash, swf, conversion, convert, swiffy, html5, animation, svg
An alternate jQuery function reference browser. Nice compact layout, but missing the category cross-referencing of the official API docs site.
jQAPI – Alternative jQuery Documentation
Tags: jquery, javascript, js, api, documentation, docs, webdev
This points out how to install and configure a ‘tcp’ module for nginx which will allow it to proxy websocket connections to multiple backend servers.
Reverse-proxy websockets with nginx and socket.io
Tags: nginx, websockets, socket.io, nodejs, loadbalancing, ha, proxy
I think I might have a use for this. And I need to see if I can get it to work server-side with node.js. Hmm…
ICanHaz.js | client-side templating with Mustache.js and jQuery or Zepto.js
Tags: javascript, js, webdev, jquery, templating, templates
“XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows.”
Tags: xbmc, mediacenter, streaming, video, media, television, tv
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node.js resource sites, selected by their Alexa rank.
Tags: nodejs, javascript, webdev, node, nodecloud, tutorials, resources, services
Just heard of this dessert on Twitter. Sounds like a good one try out some time.
Tags: recipes, food, desserts, vanillaslice, australia, noms