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I'll be there from July 27th until August 6th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Mitchell McKenna

So your working on your WordPress theme, and need to include some javascript or css, just throw it in the header or footer right? Well, actually Wordpress has it's own preferred way of including js and css. If you follow their best practices, you can avoid the risk of conflicting with other themes and plugins. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

I recently posted a link to "Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrap" which allows you to pick different colors for your bootstrap elements, but this goes a step further. It provides examples of how easy it is to swap out color palettes and fonts for Bootstrap. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

jQuery UI Bootstrap offers a clean implementation of the Twitter Bootstrap design as a jQuery UI theme that can be applied to widgets . It also includes a 'cleaned up' version of Bootstrap which *can* be used alongside this particular theme without needing to worry about styles colliding. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

One of my only issues with ever popular LESS.app is that it's not available on Windows or Linux; I often switch between linux and mac environments so I was glad to see SimpLESS does just that, a less compiler for all 3 big operating systems. SimpLESS will watch files for when you save them and compile your LESS files on the fly to css. It supports @import parsing, minificaiton, and will display syntax errors if you have an error in your syntax. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

CSS3 button set with 42 login/social icons. It’s image-free, small and easy to use. CSS buttons have a number of obvious advantages in comparison to image buttons: editable labels, smaller bandwidth consumption, graceful degradation, and editable size. Available on github. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

An extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. Just adjust the sliders on the left and copy the CSS in from the box below. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

A blank WordPress theme to start your next custom WordPress theme from. Available as both a responsive and static theme. Using the 960 Grid. Built Around HTML5 Boilerplate. Insanely Detailed & Organized CSS File. Easy to Customize & Expand Upon. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

See more in my Dopplr profile. - Mitchell McKenna

I'll be there from December 15th until January 2nd. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Mitchell McKenna

Iconic is intended to be minimal renderings yet unique in form. Alternatives for several marks have been added for greater choice in style. Works in all sizes; one main goal for these icons were to have them maintain high legibility over a large scale range. Almost all of the icons in this set will work from 8×8 pixels to however large you need to go. To give the greatest flexibility, the icon set packages all icons in PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats. All raster-format icons come in 5 sizes; 8×8, 12×12, 16×16, 24×24 & 32×32 pixels as well as 14 colors. This set is currently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Mark Dotto of Twitter has created GitHub buttons to provide consistent, easy-to-use links back to a GitHub project. The buttons are very similar to the kind of social buttons for twitter and Facebook you see on blog posts. For their initial release functionality is limited to a static link back to your repo and dynamic counts for the number of watchers and forks on any public repo. In the future it will expand on this to support user profiles and dynamic buttons via oAuth. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Neo4j is an open source graph database, storing data in the nodes and relationships of a graph. An intuitive graph-oriented model for data representation. A disk-based, native storage manager completely optimized for storing graph structures for maximum performance and scalability. Neo4j can handle graphs of several billion nodes/relationships/properties on a single machine and can be sharded to scale out across multiple machines. A powerful traversal framework for high-speed traversals in the node space. Can be deployed as a full server or a very slim database with a small footprint (~750k jar). A simple and convenient object-oriented API. Unlike twitter's FlockDB, neo4j can handle multiple levels of hierarchy. However where FlockDB is better is it's low latency, high throughput and inherent distributed nature. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

A simple, no-frills, robust jQuery plugin for creating beautiful slideshows for your featured content. Basic jQuery Slider has been developed to be as simple and lightweight as possible. Only the essential functionality has been included combined with clean semantic mark-up. This means instead of removing features and bending a slider plugin to suit your needs, you can use this slider and as a base and extend it to be as feature rich, or as simple, as you need. Slides can contain any valid HTML markup. Slide and fade animations. Supported in all major browsers. Easy to theme. Supports keyboard navigation. Super lightweight, at 4.6kb minified. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Exhibition Theme is clean and modern WordPress theme with a blog like design. Great theme for artists to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work. Check out the demo page or the theme video provided to see how it works. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

VideoHive by Envato is a Marketplace for buying royalty free open/title sequences and tutorials on motion graphics. The site is home to a bustling community of motion graphics junkies! - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

"Notificon is a javascript class for providing client-side favicon notifications. Instead of requiring a number of favicons be created and served up to the client, you can specify a label and a favicon (default being the current favicon) and it will generate a favicon notification." - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

The boilerplate includes the following libraries: ASIHTTPRequest, JSONKit, SVProgressHUD and few others. It also includes helper classes for: - HTTP requests and an image cache (both in-memory and disk-based). - UITableViews and UITableViewCells: fast scrolling, async images, pull-down-to-refresh, swipeable cells. Maps and locations: directions between two points, autocomplete a location, etc. Note: Some of the libraries here may become obsolete once iOS 5 is released, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Makes it easy to visualise and construct custom HTTP requests to test with any RESTful web service. Syntax highlighting, custom headers and construct POST or Put body via raw input. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

The HP TouchPad has a very active homebrew community that makes patches available to help speed up and improve the OS. HP has actually made modifying the OS generally easy to modify. This guide will walk you through step by step instructions how to get the software and patches installed to get the Touchpad overclocked and running as fast as safely possible. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

See more in my Dopplr profile. - Mitchell McKenna

I'll be there from July 22nd until August 5th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Mitchell McKenna

Looking for something to give a simple lightbox effect (maybe just a login prompt), but don't really want to include something like jQueryUI for just it's dialog effect? This little function is less than 1 KB. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Show a stream of your online activity with jQuery. Great if you want to toss your lifestream into a sidebar on your website. Very simple stream with a icon of the service you posted to and a link to the post. Over 25 social networks supported so far and growing. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

"Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows." - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Interesting music choice. - Andy Bakun

I thought the same thing! I was like "wait, who invited Eminem to my MI trailer party?!?" but then I watched it a 2nd time and it totally grew on me. Then I watched it like 8 times. - Mitchell McKenna

"Project Hamster is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track." - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

"A template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc. While not plug and play, it will provide some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design rendering as true-to-form as possible. We use Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate as our starting point. And after a little jquery love, 960 peace, and html5 grease; this site came to be." - Mitchell McKenna from Mento

Great video and nettuts article from Phil Sturgeon on how we can use CodeIgniter to create a RESTful API for your existing web applications, and demonstrate how to interact with your own API or other RESTful web-services, such as Facebook and Twitter. - Mitchell McKenna from Mento