#1: Walkway Walkway is a simplified means of animating SVG elements. Developed by Connor Atherton, this small library re-creates the animations from Polygon’s PlayStation4 review. It creates new Walkway instances with a supplied options object, using .draw to start animating the call on the returned instance, providing an optional callback for when drawing is complete, along … continue reading
Microsoft has weathered the storm of Windows 8 criticism for more than two years, amid a tectonic shift away from desktop computing. Windows 10 is the company’s life raft, or at least that’s what it’s perceived to be. The truth is, as important as Windows 10 is to Microsoft’s future, the company’s flagship product is … continue reading
Research firm Gartner recently released its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015 that organizations can’t afford to ignore, but it missed a huge category—Drones, also known as unmanned aircraft systems, unmanned air vehicles or unmanned systems. While one could argue that drones fall under the organization’s smart machine category, so can the Internet of … continue reading
Steve Ballmer is finally becoming a man…in the eyes of the Jewish people, anyway. In the closing presentation of the WSJD Live tech conference on Wednesday, the former Microsoft CEO and new NBA owner gave a wide-ranging onstage interview touching on his life, Microsoft, his ownership of the L.A. Clippers—and the revelation that he’s studying … continue reading
Happy Halloween, GitHub fans! Sadly there is nothing remotely spooky about this weeks trending open-source projects, but they’re awesome just the same. #1: Openage Openage is a volunteer project organized by SFT Technologies to create a free engine clone of the Age of Empires II game, primarily aimed at POSIX platforms such as GNU and Linux. According … continue reading
Some tech companies manage to transcend technology. Under Steve Jobs, Apple defined itself as a purveyor of beautiful devices for artists and renegades. Under Marc Benioff, Salesforce is defining itself as a San Francisco-centric cultural force. His company’s annual Dreamforce conference, which this year hosted 140,000 attendees, celebrated SaaS, live music, philanthropic action, self-improvement, data … continue reading
#1: PerfMap This front-end performance heat map from Mark Zeman is a bookmarklet to of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API. Once installed, the bookmarklet overlays a performance heatmap over the web page to indicate user experience with interactive timing when the mouse hovers over a particular spot. PerfMap is only available on … continue reading
#1: SweetAlert Created by Tristan Edwards, SweetAlert is a replacement for JavaScript’s alert. It automatically centers itself on the page and works with desktop computers, mobile devices and tablets. Instead of having a generic alert come onto your screen, SweetAlert is visually appealing, according to Edwards, and customizable. It can implement text, animations and images. … continue reading
New wearable devices flood the market every day, and not all are created equal. While a certain level of weirdness is to be expected when dealing with a smart device strapped, worn or stuck onto your body, some wearables are a bit more bizarre than the rest. We pulled together 13 of the weirdest, wackiest … continue reading
The time has come for HP to roll out the axes and chop itself up into smaller units again. The last time this happened was in 1999 when the real HP, the portion of the company dedicated to measurement instruments, was spun off as Agilent Technologies. Funny, as about that same time, HP was buying … continue reading
#1: Material design for Bootstrap This week’s top project is an easy way to use the new Material Design guidelines by Google in Bootstrap 3-based applications. Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and add JavaScript at the end of the document, and the theme converts everything to Material Design style. Developed by … continue reading
Were you Left Behind? Did your company experience some Fallout? Are a Boy and His Dog all that’s left in your IT department this morning because all your admins were up until 2 a.m. every day this weekend rebooting Amazon images? You were not alone. This weekend, Amazon pushed all of its users through the … continue reading
Before we begin, I should fully disclose that I am about to discuss my personal non-profit and the work we’re doing. I am extremely compromised, super invested, and heavily opinionated about my non-profit, so we’re leaving Neutral Journalism Town and heading for Bias Avenue. That being said, I have spent the past year working on … continue reading
I’m calling it now. Keeping in mind while I do this that I have been fabulously wrong in my predictions before, I am now, as we speak, calling this the peak. The bubble might get a little bigger, but it’s coming time for it to pop. Again, I’ve been very wrong before. I called tablets … continue reading
