Nick Rivers

Free themes for Twitter Bootstrap - Nick Rivers

Bootstrap is an HTML5 & CSS3 framework designed to help you kickstart the development of webapps and sites. WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates. Impress your clients and visitors while using a single, rock-solid foundation. - Nick Rivers

The original favicon was a 16x16 pixel file named favicon.ico that lived in the top directory of your public web files but with “retina” displays becoming more common, and with favicons used in many places other than browser tabs, the approach now is to provide a much larger image, at least 64x64 pixels. - Nick Rivers

I love being super fast in the shell so I decided to do a new article series called Bash One-Liners Explained. It's going to be similar to my other article series - Awk One-Liners Explained, Sed One-Liners Explained, and Perl One-Liners Explained. After I'm done with this bash series, I'll release an e-book by the same title, just as I did with awk, sed, and perl series. The e-book will be available as a pdf and in mobile formats (mobi and epub). I'll also be releasing bash1line.txt, similar to perl1line.txt that I made for the perl series. - Nick Rivers

With GoDaddy’s entire DNS service down, I figured it would be a good time to write up a quick migration guide for anyone looking to use this opportunity to jump the GoDaddy ship. This guide assumes that your domain name is with another registrar, and you are only using GoDaddy for hosting. If your domain name itself is controlled through GoDaddy, you’re out of luck until they come back online. - Nick Rivers

On September 7th of 1982, advertising legend David Ogilvy sent an internal memo to all employees of his advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather. The memo was entitled "How to Write," and consisted of the following list of advice. - Nick Rivers

Knockback.js brings Knockout.js magic to Backbone.js - Nick Rivers

Welcome to my (in-progress) book about the Backbone.js framework for structuring JavaScript applications. It's released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license meaning you can both grab a copy of the book for free or help to further improve it. - Nick Rivers

After posting this answer, I was asked by Jeremy Ashkenas if I would like to help maintain the Backbone.js wiki. While I will keep my answer below, you should check the backbone.js wiki for the most recent information: https://github.com/documen...... - Nick Rivers

Steve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month, 270 million page views per month, and 20+ database servers. - Nick Rivers