Almost every application with GUI needs icons. And they better be sexy. And stylish. And consistent. And small. Here are few tips for programatically creating icons using Java 2D features
Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.
XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese June, 2005 "I tend to define Web design as being one of many disciplines within the larger field of design (a peer to print design, industrial design, interior design, etc.)."
Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA it has now found itself been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large building that move around in the wind. It is amazing...
"You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible."
CSS allows you to create attractive navigation that, in reality, is no more than text -- text that can be marked up in such a way as to ensure that it's both accessible and understandable, By Rachel Andrew
Numbers for Fantasy Worlds, a distillation of broad possibilities drawn from a variety of historical reference points, from periods ranging from the 11th to 15th centuries as a good model for a trad-fantasy gameworld.
The term "sharding" was coined by Google engineers, and popularized through their publication of the Big Table architecture. However, the concept of "shared-nothing" database partitioning has been around for a decade or more and there have been many implementations over this period, especially high profile in-house built solutions by Internet leaders such as eBay, Amazon, Digg, Flickr, Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Friendster, and Wikipedia.
First introduced by George Spafford in this article, the law states that the more the user is presented with false or erroneous alerts, the more they will ignore real alerts in the system.