BraveDave's musings: February 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

states as fonts

Stately is a symbol font that makes it easy to create a map of the United States using only HTML and CSS. Each state can be styled independently with CSS for making simple visualizations. And since it's a font, it scales bigger and smaller while staying sharp as a tack.

Monday, February 25, 2013

JacpFX RCP framework

JacpFX is a RCP framework built on JavaFX and Spring.

Friday, February 22, 2013

sDashboard javascript portal framework

sDashboard is a simple lightweight dashboard framework in javascript

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Quandl public datasets

Quandl is the wikipedia of public data sets, downloadable in common formats.

Friday, February 15, 2013

codiqa

codiqa is a cloud-hosted mobile app development tool.

tiggzi mobile app development

tiggzi is a cloud-hosted mobile app development tool.

Monday, February 4, 2013

GFX jQuery animations

GFX integrates CSS3 transforms and transitions into jQuery, making it stupidly simple to create sophisticated and gorgeous animations.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Programming fonts

See this Slant blogpost for a review of the top programming fonts.

Writeability in-browser text editor

Paste this into the URL to get a browser-based text editor:

data:text/html;charset=utf-8, <title>Writability</title><body OnLoad='document.body.focus();' contenteditable style="font-size:21px;line-height:1.6;font-family:'Chaparral Pro',Georgia;max-width:21em;margin:0 auto;padding:3rem;background-color:rgb(233,233,225);color:rgb(68,68,68);" spellcheck="false">

Kara is an open source web framework for the JVM using the Kotlin programming language. It uses Kotlin's unique syntax to allow developers to write succinct, statically-typed HTML and CSS all in one language.