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Thursday again, and it’s time for our reading tips!
Weekly links October 6th 2011
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other mean.
The picks this week are:
Christian Heilmann
CSS Shaders – a new proposal to bring cinematic effects to HTML
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Christian, he’s available on Twitter as @codepo8.
Havi Hoffman
In case you missed it, You’re Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified is a thoroughly helpful, developer-friendly guide from Smashing Magazine.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Havi, she’s available on Twitter as @freshelectrons
Jay Patel
Check out BrowserStack, a cross-browser testing tool that is now out of beta and ready to help developers test websites for compatibility in the cloud.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Jay, he’s available on Twitter as @jaybhai
Jeff Griffiths
WebGL support for rendering a PDF on a cube, because cubes are awesome, using CubicVR.js and PDF.js
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Jeff, he’s available on Twitter as @canuckistani.
Joe Stagner
A Jumpstart for using an incredible library for professional JavaScript development.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Joe, he’s available on Twitter as @MisfitGeek.
Rob Hawkes
Here are a few templating options for Node.js applications. I’ve been looking into some of these for projects that I’m working on that need to serve Web files using Node instead of Apache.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Rob, he’s available on Twitter as @robhawkes.
Robert Nyman
Adobe Announces Agreement to Acquire Nitobi, Creator of PhoneGap – Nitobi has created a great product with PhoneGap to create applications with HTML5 and deploying it to various platforms, and now they have been acquired by Adobe.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Robert, he’s available on Twitter as @robertnyman.
Stormy Peters
“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.” – Steve Jobs. Luckily, I think developers tend to love what they do far more than people in other professions.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Stormy, she’s available on Twitter as @storming
About Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
Technical Evangelist & Editor of Mozilla Hacks. Gives talks & blogs about HTML5, JavaScript & the Open Web. Robert is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web and has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web - in Sweden and in New York City. He regularly also blogs at http://robertnyman.com and loves to travel and meet people.