Albert Willis

Edmodo is best described as Twitter for students and teachers. In reality though, it’s basically a private micro-blogging service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classroom - Albert Willis

Dimdim lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet - with no download required. Remember how hard it was to get your music into your pocket before the iPod? Well, you know how hard it is to get your web meetings started on time? We made it our mission to create a web conferencing system as easy to use as the iPod. With Dimdim, a single click is all it takes to meet. - Albert Willis

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. - Albert Willis

Seemingly non-obvious details can often separate good web design from great web design. You might not appreciate the quality of a well-designed website until you start using it, looking under the hood, putting it through tests, etc. Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design is an attempt to share some of these details that matter most. By encouraging “progressive enrichment” to utilize advanced CSS and CSS3 properties that work in browsers today, to reevaluating past methods and best practices. This book will show how craftsmanship can be applied to flexible, bulletproof, highly efficient and adaptable interfaces that make up a solid user experience. - Albert Willis

Noir is smooth and elegant style for Growl, a notification framework intended to unify all passive user alerts from different applications. Growl is widely supported accross Mac OS X software, used in applications such as Adium, Transmission, Panic's Coda, and various Twitter clients including Tweetie and Twitterific. In order to fit in with the native look and feel of the rest Mac OS X, Noir aims to be as simply beautiful (and as beautifully simple) as possible. Originally created by Wilson Miner, a web designer for major websites such as EveryBlock and Apple.com, the project has since been updated and moved to its own page. Here, it will continue to be maintained and supported by Fletcher Tomalty. - Albert Willis

Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what's left so that it will run fast on browsers' JavaScript engines. The compiler also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about other common JavaScript pitfalls. These checks and optimizations help you write apps that are less buggy and easier to maintain. You can use the compiler with Closure Inspector, a Firebug extension that makes debugging the obfuscated code almost as easy as debugging the human-readable source. Because JavaScript developers are a diverse bunch, we've set up a number of ways to run the Closure Compiler. We've open-sourced a command-line tool. We've created a web application that accepts your code for compilation through a text box or a RESTful API. We're also offering a Firefox ext that you can use with Page Speed to see the performance benefits 4 your web pages. - Albert Willis

We aim to increase the adoption of sparklines on the web by providing a high-quality PHP sparkline library with the following properties: Flexible - While Sparkline is not a general-purpose graphing library, we do provide a wide range of options how your graphs are rendered. Version 0.1 supports line and bar modes, which allow for simple line, filled line, bar, and whisker graphs. Elegant - It's important that sparklines are visually appealing, especially in the restricted visual environment of the web. Web sparklines should approach as closely as possible the aesthetic of printed sparklines. Free - Sparkline is completely free to use on your personal website, company home page, or to include in your commercial product. Sparkline is distributed under the BSD license. - Albert Willis

A set of User Defined Functions for Excel to create in-cell charts : Sparklines. Sparklines are the simple, intense, word-sized graphics invented by Edward Tufte. Coded in Visual Basic for Applications. - Albert Willis

Welcome to the sparkline generator. You can start right away by dynamically creating a sparkline using the Sparkline Generator Web Application, or you can read more about sparklines and decide if you want to use the sparkline web service or if you would be better off downloading the code and running the sparkline service on your own server. This service can be found hosted at both http://bitworking.org/project... and on Google App Engine at http://sparklines-bitworking.appspot.com/. - Albert Willis