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A Look Inside Santa’s Engineering — Google Santa Tracker

Google Santa Tracker is a to-be-launched Google Maps showcase of the technology behind Santa Claus’ developed by the elves.

santa A Look Inside Santas Engineering    Google Santa Tracker

On Christmas Eve, the Santa Tracker will show a dashboard giving developers and engineers from all the world valuable insight about the technology used by Santa Claus.

 

There is some cool stuff to do right away, though. Visitors from the US can send text messages through the website, and there are some games and other Googl-ish oddities, too.

500 Megabytes of Design Stuff In One Bundle — ByPeople

ByPeople, a design website yet to be released to the public, is giving away a huge pack of design goodies.

bypeople 500 Megabytes of Design Stuff In One Bundle    ByPeople

The free stuff includes all things design: CV templates; divisors; textures; social icons; sliders; patterns; etc.

Your email is requested, and they’ll probably send an email upon the website’s opening. It should be worth it, however.

An All-in-one Website For Responsive Design Tactics — This Is Responsive

This Is Responsive is a website with patterns, resources and news useful for those willing to create responsive designs.

responsive An All in one Website For Responsive Design Tactics    This Is ResponsiveIt’s true that creating a responsive design is no joke. Although tools (browsers) for creating such designs are becoming more common, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s becoming easier to create them.

This Is Responsive features patterns and modules for responsive design, a list of resources to get you started, and responsive design news — as it’s definitely an area of web design that’s changing at a fast pace.

Follow PHP Best Practices — PHP: The Right Way

PHP: The Right Way is a web reference for best PHP coding practices.

phptheway Follow PHP Best Practices    PHP: The Right WayThe website lists popular apps for running servers on your local machine, and features tons upon tons of useful information about PHP, its best practices and newest functions.

If you’re an ex PHP developer and want to refresh your knowledge, or are aspiring to become a PHP developer, this is definitely a good place to start.

Advanced File Upload Techniques — Chunked Uploading

The folks at CreativeJS have posted a wonderful tutorial showcasing the development of a failure-resilient file uploader.

multi upload 300x282 Advanced File Upload Techniques    Chunked UploadingThe tutorial has only a single part as of now, but it sheds light on chunked uploading and pausing/resuming uploads.

Only JavaScript and HTML are used for achieving this. Stay tuned for the next chapters of this enlightening tutorial.

Impressive Tree Generation With WebGL

SnappyTree is a neat WebGL demo by Paul Brunt, the creator of GLGE.

snappytree Impressive Tree Generation With WebGL

The demo lets you fool around with various presets, introduces the creation mechanics, and even allows you to save generated trees.

As there aren’t enough links in this small post already, it’s pertinent to note that @Brendan Zabarauskas has a similar project up for quite some time.