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iOS Boilerplate is a base for creating native iOS applications with support for 4.0+ versions of the operating system.
Right now, it is not a complete/true XCode template but an XCode project which makes developing easier for anyone who is looking to build a project by modifying and extending an already ready one.
The boilerplate includes helper classes and examples on:
- HTTP requests and an image cache (both in-memory and disk-based)
- UITableViews and UITableViewCells: fast scrolling, async images, pull-down-to-refresh, swipeable cells,…
- Maps and locations: directions between two points, autocomplete a location, etc.
And, there are few other projects already bundled including ASIHTTPRequest, JSONKit, SVProgressHUD and few others.
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This coming weekend, two WordCamps will be going on simultaneously — yep, it’s WordCamp season again! This weekend will be the first of many this autumn with multiple WordCamps. Tomorrow (not quite the weekend but close enough) is WordCamp Cape Town, and then this weekend, first-time WordCamp Albuquerque coincides with 4-time returning champ WordCamp Portland, a cool juxtaposition of a more established local community with one that is just getting started. If you’re anywhere near the Portland area, you should try to attend. The WordPress Foundation will be sponsoring some special activities around Software Freedom Day, and some members of the core team (me, Nacin, Koop) will be there.
Is there a WordCamp coming up near you? Let’s find out!
Sep 15: WordCamp Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa
Sep 16-18: WordCamp Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM
Sep 17-18: WordCamp Portland Portland, OR
Sep 24: WordCamp Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
Sep 24: WordCamp Germany Koln, Germany
Sep 25: WordCamp Sofia Sofia, Bulgaria
Oct 1: WordCamp Louisville Louisville, Kentucky
Oct 8-9: WordCamp Sevilla Seville, Spain
Oct 15-16: WordCamp Jabalpur Jabalpur, India
Nov 5-6: WordCamp Toronto Toronto, ON
Nov 5-6: WordCamp Gold Coast Gold Coast, Australia
Nov 5-6: WordCamp Philly Philadelphia, PA
Nov 12: WordCamp Caguas Caguas, Puerto Rico
Nov 12-13: WordCamp Kenya Nairobi, Kenya
Nov 12-13: WordCamp Detroit Detroit, MI
Nov 12: WordCamp Richmond Richmond, VA
Nov 12-13: WordCamp Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark
Dec 17: WordCamp Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV
Feb 3-4 WordCamp Atlanta Atlanta, GA
There are also a number of WordCamps still in the early organizing stage that do not yet have dates set. These include: Ft. Wayne, IN; London, UK; Edmonton, Canada; Baku, Azerbaijan; Oslo, Norway; Sacramento, CA; Birmingham, Alabama; Pittsburgh, PA; Omaha, NE; Orlando, FL; Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France; Zagreb, Croatia; Nashville, TN, Washington DC, Baltimore, MD; Bangkok, Thailand; Istanbul, Turkey.
Hope to see you soon at a WordCamp near you!
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The giveaway of 3D Covers Pro -fastest way for creating 3D eCovers- which was announced last week has ended today. The winners are selected and announced below.
Here is a short reminder on "what 3D Covers Pro is" in case you missed:
It is an advanced yet easy-to-use set of Adobe Photoshop action scripts and smart objects for creating such 3D outputs quickly.
They are Win + Mac OS X compatible and support creating the following items with each having more than one designs:
- binders (3 designs)
- magazines (10 designs)
- DVDs (7 designs)
- brochures (3 designs)
- books (13 designs)
- spirals (6 designs)
- boxes (15 designs)
- CDs (11 designs)
- business cards (4 designs)
The winners
- k19s (comment #392870)
- Michael Kaiser (comment #392452)
- Niju mohan (comment #393242)
Congratulations and thanks to everyone for joining the giveaway.
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Mobile HTML5 is a project that displays a comparison chart displaying the HTML5 features support in popular mobile and tablet browsers.
The presentation is very slick easing finding out if that feature should be used on a mobile web app or not.
Currently, the browsers included are Safari on iOS, Android, Blackberry, IE, Opera, Firefox, webOS and Symbian (by mentioning on which device they were tested).
Also, it is possible to see which versions of the browsers support each feature.
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For years, MS Powerpoint was almost the only option for easily creating and managing slideshows.
Although it is still a popular tool in the market, today, there are other options for the web-friendly people like: Google Docs Presentations, Prezi, Zoho Show and more.
Also, there are free and open source JavaScript libraries or templates that are specially built for this case and enables web designers/developers to build presentations with a flexibility which any other tool can not offer.
Web-based presentations work in all modern browsers -including mobile-, can include any media, be scripted for advanced usage and coded to be dynamic.
Here are the 9 great and well-known HTML-JavaScript-powered engines for beautiful presentations:
Deck.js is a lovely JavaScript library for creating HTML presentations.
While advanced users can build totally custom outputs, there are templates and themes for novice users to create a standard slideshow with no effort.
This is a jQuery plugin that lets us to create the slides in HTML, style them with CSS and control the presentation logic with JavaScript.
Navigation can be handled with keyboard, mouse or scrolling.
As a unique feature, it allows defining a video for synchronizing the slideshow with.
html5slides is a presentation library developed by Google.
It has 2 built-in themes and support 3 different layouts (regular, faux-widescreen, widescreen).
A single file HTML5-CSS3 template for building presentations.
It also offers 2 shells: for embedding the output into other pages and for showing slides with a control panel.
A popular standards-based presentation engine that has all the features we can ask for, including:
- auto-scaling of text (responsive)
- incremental display
- unique URLs for each slide (bookmarking works)
- progress indicator (handy for long slideshows)
and much more..
A simple, easy-to-use and standalone presentation library that has support for theming.
Slippy is a jQuery-powered HTML presentations library that comes with a responsive layout.
Besides browsing the slides with the prev-next keys it lets users to directly go to the desired slide by using the number keys.
A CSS-powered slideshow that displays slide numbers as a header and supports mouse-based navigations.
Every page has its own #url for direct links and doesn't break the browser history.
P.S. Check its source for the code.
The presentation engine has support for 3D effects using CSS3 3D transforms.
And, an interesting feature is its ability to display nested slides (by pressing "down" rather than "next").
P.S. Check its source for the code.
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BaseKit, a powerful yet easy-to-use application for building websites online, is giving away 3 Business Packages (1 year term) to WRD readers.
In order to find out more about the stuff in the package and to join this giveaway, make sure you check the bottom of this article.
What is BaseKit?
Creating websites over the web is not something new. But, if you used such tools in the past, you should have experienced that there are usually too many limits forcing users to build websites in a fixed way.
BaseKit comes with a better approach that is flexible on every level and allows users to customize every part of the website but still keeping everything integrated. And, making it simpler for many.
There are 100+ templates (personal and business websites) to choose from with each having lots of ready-to-use color variations which functions as a base for the website and it can be customized/improved as you wish.
The websites are created with a slick drag 'n' drop interface which functions as a true WYSIWYG editor, things look exactly as the output, no surprises.
BaseKit has an impressive set of widgets that can be inserted into web pages. Besides inserting text, images and video, it is possible to place a Google Maps map, in-site search, sitemap, image carousel or commenting into any page with a click.
That's not all, a form builder helps creating any type of custom forms and collecting information. And, social widgets make sure the website is connected with your social profiles with the ability to display Twitter timeline, Flickr photos or RSS feeds (there are "Tweet This" and Facebook "Like" buttons too).
If you need further customization, it lets you to insert site-wide or page-specific scripts and edit the whole HTML-CSS.
BaseKit is an all-in-one package for creating a website meaning it handles hosting and domain management (optional) for you.
Also, one account can control many websites (which is great for web agencies or people with multiple websites) and multiple users can work on the same account. And, it has a multilanguage interface that supports various languages by default.
How to win the licenses?
BaseKit is giving away 3 Business Packages ($168 value/each) which includes:
- Unlimited access to our website builder
- Amazon S3 Hosting
- 1 Free Domain
- E-commerce (Google Check-Out) integration
- £30 Google Adwords voucher
- Premium Support
In order to get a chance to win one of them, simply comment to this article and winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 19 September 2011 (a week later):
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2459 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
Good luck!
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chainvas is a lightweight (1kb minified) JavaScript library that is built to make <canvas> API chainable (like the ones in jQuery, MooTools, etc.). And, it will work for any JavaScript APIs.
It adds methods to the prototype of CanvasRenderingContext2D and replaces the existing ones with a wrapper that calls the original function and returns this if and only if the function didn’t return undefined.
There are also extra helper methods like the ones for setting properties in a readable format, drawing circles and rounded rectangles.
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RestKit is an open source Objective-C framework that simplifies interacting with RESTful web services for iOS apps.
It comes with a clean and easy-to-use HTTP request/response API with a powerful object mapping system that minimizes the amount of code to be written.
The framework provides integration with Apple’s Core Data framework which allows it to persist remotely loaded objects directly back into a local store, either as a fast local cache or a primary data store that is periodically synced with the cloud.
And, RestKit supports JSON via the SBJSON and YAJL parsers.
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Mercury is a HTML5-powered WYSIWYG editor similar to the popular ones like TinyMCE or CKEditor but with a different usage experience.
Rather than being positioned inside a given element, it appears over the complete web page and can be used to edit the whole page or any number specified areas.
It supports previewing the edited content and inserting links, images, videos or tables. File uploads can be accomplished with drag 'n' drops.
Snippets can be defined and inserted quickly with the help of a sidebar. And, a similar sidebar exists for taking notes.
Also, collaborative editing is supported. Just edit any page that others are working on at the same time and see their changes in real time.
Mercury can be either installed as a Rails gem or by including the necessary JS and CSS files into our web pages.
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Few days ago, FitText, a jQuery plugin that auto-arranges the size of fonts according to the size of the element wrapping them -so they don't break-, was shared at WRD.
And now, it is FitVids.JS, again a jQuery plugin and a similar solution but, this time, for videos.
It automates the Intrinsic Ratio Method by Thierry Koblentz to achieve fluid width videos in your responsive web design.
Usage is simple, just call the fitVids function by targeting a video and the element will be auto-wrapped with a <div> and CSS for resizing it will be applied.
Currently, it is compatible with major services like Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.TV or Viddler.
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