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In pictures: Humpback whales feeding in Alaska | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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Try as they might to project a monolith image, there isn’t one Apple — there’s multiple silos each containing multiple teams.
Some of these teams interact with web technologies, and end up building frameworks to assist in development. Here’s a run-down of Apple’s many JavaScript frameworks, some public, some not:
SproutCore is used by the MobileMe team. Publicly advertised, targeting desktop-class web applications. Chief competitor: Cappuccino. (IMO SproutCore’s gem is the DataStore layer. To my knowledge, nothing has caught up with it yet.)
Gianduia used by Apple retail. Not advertised yet, but you can see a demonstration on Apple’s One to One (requires buying a new Mac+contract) or for a limited time their holiday retail reservation system. As I previously tweeted, Gianduia is like SproutCore in that it targets desktop-class web apps.
TuneKit is a small publicly-advertised framework for targeting WebKit-in-iTunes. Published by the iTunes team.
Coherent is the publicly-advertised framework blessed by Dashcode 3. Developer tools team.
PastryKit is an Apple-internal framework focusing on iPhone-style UI in a WebKit view. Used by the iPhone team.
Thanks to Pascal Robert for suggesting some of these team categories. It was at Pascal’s WOWODC 09 that I learned about Gianduia.
Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World - NYTimes.com
LESS was inspired by its predecessors—especially Sass, a ruby project which provides an ingenious solution to a lot of the common problems CSS designers and web developers face when developping large websites.
Spencer Fry — What's A Non-Programmer To Do?
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“If you’re a Web designer, expect your CSS colors & your untagged/unmanaged images to look darker on Snow Leopard than on previous versions of the Mac OS. You’ll also see less of a visible color shift when going from Photoshop to Flash or other unmanaged environments (e.g. Internet Explorer).” — John Nack on Adobe: Why your Web content will look darker on Snow Leopard
It’s double art history with Mr Tate | Will Gompertz - Times Online -
Don’t know your Dali? No problem. All you need is one hour, irreverent company and some gusto
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World - The Amateur Gourmet -
More food related shenanigans!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles | A Hamburger Today -
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TheDieline.com: Package Design: The Dieline’s 50 Favorite Liquor Package Designs
I really fancy some of that Absolut Tropics. And the Kraken Rum (which I’ve posted previously). And that 50 year old Glenfiddich. I want a drink, dammit!
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