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Introducing the New WordPress
The new WordPress.com codebase, codenamed "Calypso," moves WordPress.com away from MySQL and PHP. It's built entirely in JavaScript, and communicates with WordPress.com only using our REST API. Calypso uses a thin layer of Node.js on the server to build the initial web page, and much of the logic is run in the client as a Single Page Application (SPA) built in-house, leveraging many other open source JavaScript modules.
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The Pencil arrives, and it's going to change my life
Serenity at iMore has a great first look at the Apple Pencil. I'm seriously considering putting this to the top of my wish list along with an iPad Pro. Maybe even to replace my aging laptop for a bit as an experiment.
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Payment gateways in Canada integrated with ApplePay
Apple Developer documentation has been updated with info with the most popular payment gateways that are integrating Apple Pay. Here is the list for Canada as of November 20, 2015: Beanstream Braintree CyberSource FirstData Global Payments Shopify StripeDaily Links
Save "Save For Web"
Our long time shepherd of web standards, Jeffery Zeldman, makes a case for not removing Save for Web from Photoshop and forcing us to swallow Export As. I didn't even realize that Save for Web had left the interface, as I have been using the keyboard shortcut for 15+ years.
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An Eulogy For Rdio
"Rdio, on the other hand, was cool. It went with sky-blue over neon green. It felt like Internet people made it. (Partly because they actually did: I used to read the blog of one of its designers when, early in his career, he worked for a small newspaper in Kansas.) I wonder how we’ll remember it."
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the HTML/CSS Workmanship Guide
As their tag line says, "write code that would make NASA proud". Good reminders here.Daily Links
Unsplash
Looking for free stock photos to flesh out a wireframe, layout or design? Unsplash now has a pretty nice API to call them direct to your project. Designer friends make sure you bookmark this one!Daily Links
Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me I nvisible to Computers
Christopher Null explains what changeless his last name brings to him in modern computerized world.