Thursday, June 27, 2013

SkyFonts web fonts on desktop

SkyFonts is a handy app that allows you to install web fonts directly onto your computer, akin to the new Adobe Creative Cloud Typekit Desktop feature. SkyFonts has the entire collection of Google Webfonts available, making it much easier to produce realistic webpage mockups that use webfonts. 

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Qlikview with Google BigQuery

See this post in the Big Data/BI Zone on using Qlikview with Google BigQuery.

Angular Kendo UI

The Angular Kendo UI project aims to provide deep integration between Kendo UI Web/DataViz and AngularJS.

Stick-N-Find Stickers

Stick-N-Find Stickers are quarter-sized Bluetooth transmitters with a Range of about 100 feet and a Battery that lasts for over a year. The Stick-n-Find uses a standard watch battery, so it is easy to replace the battery.

Kiji HBase app framework

Kiji is a framework for building big data applications that provides a Java API, command-line tools and DSLs (domain-specific languages) for developers. Built on top of HBase, Kiji scales linearly to support the largest workloads, but also provides simple interfaces and easy to manage environment to build the best big data applications.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Fuel UX Bootstrap widgets

Fuel UX extends Twitter Bootstrap with additional lightweight JavaScript controls. Other benefits include easy installation into web projects, integrated scripts for customizing Bootstrap and Fuel UX, simple updates, and solid optimization for deployment. All functionality is covered by live documentation and unit tests.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Emmet HTML toolkit

Emmet (previously known as Zen Coding) is a web-developer’s toolkit that can greatly improve your HTML & CSS workflow by providing shortcuts for boilerplate HTML.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013