New on the blog: Typography for the Web. miranj.in/bl…pography-web[+]
@sunil_abraham Re-designing @cis_india? Ooh, I like the sound of that. @gonsalves_r
@gonsalves_r @joshu @jasim_ab Someone called for sane and awesome web chops?
The holiday season is here and we’re breaking off for two weeks. Have a merry Christmas and and a happy New Year everyone!
We recently dabbled in a bit of movie making for our @bellycentric food blog.
Take a look: vimeo.com/34023128[+]
@nikhilv Sure, thanks!
@gonsalves_r Thanks Rahul! :) @nikhilv
@nikhilv Hi Nikhil. We’re based in New Delhi. miranj.in/[+]
Our homage to Steve Jobs now features on @mediaqueries. Yay!
Appetizers, main courses and desserts for restauranteurs — Better Restaurant Websites. better-resta…ebsites.com/[+]
/via @turmericdesign
@stanimationINK @rasagy Thanks guys!
@jackerhack Thanks Kiran!
@xAbhishek Thanks Abhishek!
@rashmiswamy Thanks! Nice to have the details appreciated. :)
@GnrlMxms Thanks for the feedback. This one’s at the top of our list.
The RESSET design is as much an ode to Skolar (via @typekit, of course) as it is to help the young minds of India. resset.in/[+]
Our latest project for the wonderful folks at RESSET (Chandigarh) just went live. resset.in/[+]
That privileged feeling of receiving a wax sealed letter in 2011. instagr.am/p/X8Zb5/[+]
Design for Developers (and designers).
It’s the 1st of December and we’re eagerly awaiting this year’s @24ways. 24ways.org/[+]
There. The secret is out!
Now go add SEO to your site. bcolbow.tumb…secret-sauce[+]
Brent Simmons on curly quotes: “When you don’t use them, I think you’re an amateur.”
We strongly agree. inessential….curly_quotes[+]
Long outstanding fixes for the TextMate HTML bundle (doctype, tag folding, attrs): gist.github.com/1386199[+]
Instructions: gist.github….omment-64725[+]
WTF Mobile Web? wtfmobileweb.com/[+]
Heh.
InstaCSS – handy find-as-you-type CSS reference / docs search (with regex support). instacss.com/[+]
Meet rem. CSS3 unit, just like em but always relative to the root element. Wowza! w3.org/TR/cs…es/#rem-unit[+] /via @beep’s blog.typekit…ible-letter/[+]
More on information architecture, mental models and designing user experiences in @iA’s interview by Dorm Room Tycoon. dormroomtyco…nces-design/[+]
“One reason why there are few simple websites is simply because it’s difficult to reduce anything to its essence.”
– Oliver @iA Reichenstein
Mou – an upcoming OS X Markdown editor for web developers. Currently in beta. mouapp.com/[+]
@rasagy Yup, the aim was not to get rid of scroll bars altogether. We were okay with vertical scroll after a certain point.
@rasagy Ah, yes, intentional again. Maybe you find it odd as you are resizing the browser. In most practical scenarios we want the padding.
@rasagy If you mean the current width/height when the scrollbar(s) appear, then yes, we didn’t want to go any smaller than that.
Media queries afford us not just horizontal but also vertical responsiveness. Our very first site featured both. v1.miranj.in/[+]
More on the change from
Old, detailed look at
This removal of
Winding up ‘early’ today.
Happy Diwali folks!
“What do you love about the web?”
Sharing. Community. Passion. vimeo.com/30905911[+]
@gonsalves_r Thanks, but we really can’t brush aside your contribution to either of the two. Or even PPT Salon’s, for that matter. :)
For more on information architecture for mobile experiences, here’s an extract from @lukew’s latest book: alistapart.c…zing-mobile/[+]
@mighty_boosher Thanks Ankit. That Droidcon artwork by PPT Salon is hard to not like. :)
@s0h4m Thanks Soham.
Graceful acceptance of drawbacks, in spite of an interface that leads the pack.
We salute @Cleartrip’s humility.
@rasagy Mr. Irish has the history paulirish.co…-html5-shiv/[+] @divya
The शिवलिंग from @rasagy’s sketch notes has got to be one of the finest Indian contributions to the HTML5 scene. flickr.com/p…27930121190/[+]
@aralalobo @akshaydashrath Thanks folks! Glad you like it. @jackerhack
@rakeshrach Thanks Rakesh!
@rasagy Artwork directed by @gonsalves_r and created by the fine folks at PPT Salon. pptsalon.com/[+] @droidconIN
Oh and it’ll response your socks off! Big thanks to @hasgeek & @gonsalves_r for the opportunity & PPT Salon for the art.
What do you think?
Attn. Android geeks, your premier dev conf is coming home. Say hello to Droidcon India: droidcon.in/2011/[+]
We helped build the site. Yay!
RIP Google Labs (and more). googleblog.b…l-sweep.html[+]
An accessibility review of ~1500 Indian Govt. sites finds them severely lacking. Surprise surprise! cis-india.or…all-citizens[+] /by @VasuTweets
Creative Mornings Chicago with Jason Fried vimeo.com/28150404[+]
Thanks Steve. stevejobs.miranj.in/[+]
diveintohtml5.org is HTTP 410 Gone!
Long live diveintohtml5.info/[+]
Also, Love Your Scrollbar http://t.co/uuP3LKIY
/by @coda_za
Tuesday humour, courtesy @danrubin thereisnofold.com/[+]
Pricing decisions are hard. While time & material is preferred, @souvikdg says fixed price ain’t undoable. His slides — speakerdeck….-fixed-price[+]
The ‘Subject of a Selector’: w3.org/TR/20…929/#subject[+]
p > $a > img { border: thick solid silver } put a border on the a tag!
/via @dalmaer
It’s been on many wishlists (qualified selectors shauninman.c…ed_selectors[+], jQuery’s :has api.jquery.c…as-selector/[+] ). Might finally arrive with CSS4.
Pitney Bowes Scrum India NCR meet – tomorrow (Oct 1st) at 2:30pm in Noida. @souvikdg will be around and this time he’ll have some slides.
Samosa and Kachori!? Kaam gaya bhaand mein. :)
E.J.Stocks’ redesign illustrates so well the power of constraints: 1 day, 1 fontsize, browser-only. Who’d have guessed? elliotjaysto…cks-dot-com/[+]
We applaud @Zomato for releasing a public API. Be sure to read their “intense internal debate” for & against this move: zomato.com/b…y-learnings/[+]
@rakeshrach How about using good old auto_incrementing numbers and casting them to a base64 alphabet [A-Za-z0-9+_] ?
Addendum: Speaker Deck by @orderedlistinc and brought to our attention by @gonsalves_r.
A non-embarrassing way to share slides. speakerdeck.com/[+] We can’t wait to use this.
Someone has a sore behind, don’t you think?
High contrast can be just as bad as low contrast. Go easy on the light-on-dark design. Find the sweet spot. ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/[+]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s enchanting qawwalis in the air.
Ganapati and @happycog. That’s right. himalayanaca…apati-kulam/[+]
Everything you always wanted to know about touch icons. Tsk tsk. mathiasbynen…/touch-icons[+] /by @mathias
“I should’ve built in that integration with the international space station! That would’ve floored her!” @ytvinay in ytvinay.post…ction-vs-exp[+]
A Date With a Browser esupportguid…h-a-browser/[+]
@xAbhishek :) :) :)
Now hunting for tweets quoted in the slides to favourite
Slides from Jeremy-@adactio-Keith’s recent talk at @bdconf, There is No Mobile Web: adactio.com/…obileweb.pdf[+] [PDF]
Oh, as did Amazon. amazon.com/[+]
Dynadot, our preferred domain name registrar just underwent a re-design. dynadot.com/[+]
A Dashboard widget for keeping track of your Google Analytics. Finally. zoltanhosszu.com/gaget/[+] /via @nitinmgarg
The story behind ‘Our 4 Questions’: miranj.in/bl…-4-questions[+] [Blog Update]
The Patent Pledge: “No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people.” More like this please. thepatentpledge.org/[+]
Finding good web designers/developers can be tough.
Here’s a shortcut: miranj.in/hire-us[+]
Talk about visual hierarchy (in the footer) wanelo.com/[+]
T-shirt survey for @hasgeek: docs.google….JfckF0WFE6MQ[+]
Vote for the cool ninja! twitpic.com/6abesa[+]
Unicode proofing your web stack: rentzsch.tum…ur-web-stack[+]
You do strive for UTF-8 compliance, right? joelonsoftwa…Unicode.html[+]
The extensive Twitter (web) style guide. Also a good primer on designing interfaces in HTML & CSS. twitter.gith…m/bootstrap/[+] /via @Shalin10
Bring your work week to a close with the Slicehost Story: http://t.co/wTkvinp [Blog Update]
The Loading Spinner, now in JS + CSS. Sweet! fgnass.githu…com/spin.js/[+]
Some of the finer details of what accessibility means on the web: netmagazine….ccessibility[+]
Sites we like: Crane Brothers miranj.in/bl…ane-brothers[+] [Blog Update]
Death to the ‘noreply’ mailbox. josscrowcrof…ply-mailbox/[+]
Raining outside, hot coffee inside.
Oh, it’s here!!
HTML5 Boilerplate is 2.0! — html5boilerplate.com/#v2[+]
Also, let’s wish @h5bp a Happy Birthday.
And hot on the heels of the last tweet, a crash course in the Evolution of Web Design by the folks at KISSmetrics. blog.kissmet…-web-design/[+]
Pursue tweets from the just concluded An Event Apart Minneapolis for a crash course in web design best practises. afeedapart.com[+]
The Web is Agreement. blog.whatfet…s_agreement/[+]
New on the blog: Ryan Singer on learning “apprentice-style”. miranj.in/bl…/knowing-how[+]
It took a while, but we’ve finally found our sweet spot. Say hello to the Miranj blog. miranj.in/bl…1/sweet-spot[+]
Personal names around the world and their implications on form and database design. Excellent article by the W3C! w3.org/Inter…rsonal-names[+]
This is Why Your Newspaper is Dying: bradcolbow.c…er_is_dying/[+] /via @cameronmoll
Ooo, a Government of India website that does not, umm, suck — moef.nic.in[+] /via @gonsalves_r
“We finally feel that we have a UI which we think will last for more than 6 months this time.” —Zomato co-founder Pankaj Chaddah, today.
@jackerhack We’ve been banking with Kotak Mahindra. Only been a few months but no frustrating experiences so far.
A startup event centred around food! This one cannot be skipped. startupsatur….php?eid=140[+] #SSDel
@konarkmodi Got it at the #scrumindia meet at Xebia, Gurgaon. Try reaching out to the folks at @XebiaIndia. They can help you get you one.
@konarkmodi Selected cards that we value the most from the deck of “Xebia Essentials” essentials.x…s/index.html[+]
Thanks @XebiaIndia for making the walls of our office more colourful and wiser. Extended thx @vikramadhiman & @goodagile twitpic.com/5ild3m[+]
The @itfoundry re-designs India’s chaotic, bilingual film certificate in the debut of their new column on Typography: indiantypefo…/articles/1/[+]
Minimum Viable User Experience 37signals.co…able-product[+]
R.D. Burman crooning the Miranj HQ stereo on the occasion of his birthday.
Cartoon: Browser wars shoze.blogsp…er-wars.html[+]
“That’s How Our Love Must Be, IE6” visitmix.com…-must-be-ie6[+] by @rainypixels
Today should be a day of learning and sharing. Will be there at #scrumindia meetup at Xebia, Gurgaon. Come say hi.
@hasgeek Most definitely! We’re based quite close to Nehru Place, but anywhere in NCR should be fine.
@hasgeek Unfortunately not. Patiently waiting for you to start your Delhi operations though. :)
Scaling PHP in the Cloud: A proper techie event, with a great website to boot. phpcloud.hasgeek.in/[+] Another awesome @hasgeek thing.
Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud. Them: 37signals.co…bootstrapped[+]
Us.
50% man-power. 100% productivity.
C42 Engineering, Year One: blog.sidu.in…ear-one.html[+]
Wishing the guys at c42.in[+] all the best for creating their product division.
Look what our weakness for food has gotten us into bellycentric.in/[+]
@xAbhishek Woah, that’d be something. One day though…
We do miss the sunlight from time to time, but boy are we glad to be sheltered from the heat in our basement office. No air cons required!
@rashmiswamy @rakeshrach Don’t blame him. After looking at the back of our brand new business card, anyone would! yfrog.com/hs2v6ivgj[+]
“Tap Tap Tap Tapori” and other 90’s numbers in the air today. grooving at work
Jobs on our latest creation: “The back of this thing looks better than the front of the other guys.”
Gee, thanks Steve! #nomodesty
The food devil taketh over. Lunch at Karim’s, Chandni Chowk.
Impart that web design gyaan to your clients. weenudge.com/[+]
/via @jasonsantamaria
Some unfortunate state of affairs in India, especially with mobile transactions. shashanknd.w…an-startups/[+]
Just overcame another unexpected hurdle. An operational bank account is now at our disposal.
Change is afoot. Thought provoking take on economic eras: http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/internet/get-ready-for-a-new-economic-era
If you’re looking to startup, here is a tip: Don’t underestimate the process of bank account opening.
Not everyday do you get to name an interface action ‘Chicken Out’.
We’ve got to stock this in our fridge! ohbeautifulb…3/work-beer/[+]
Scrum India Meetup at Noida this Saturday. Be there! tech.groups….scrum-india/[+]
हमारे पास निगमन प्रमाण पत्र है, partnership deed है, PAN card है. तुम्हारे पास क्या है?
“मेरे पास bank account है.”
:’(
We’re the three thousand nine hundred and sixth LLP in a country of one billion. Hmm.
I Yabba-Dabba Do!
