We’re starting a weekly post series about interesting and impressive development related links we collect during the week. We’re always amazed at the amount of creativity and innovation out there and would like to share what we find with our community.

1. Textify by Hakim El Hattab


Textify is a webapp that recreates images from colored symbols. It’s quite amazing to see it in action – you upload an image and in real-time you see it being drawn using only textual symbols. The author, Hakim, has several other impressive experiments on his website – you should check it out if you like smart usage of Javascript and HTML5.

2. 3D animation using CSS


That’s right – 3D animation without Canvas or SVG (and certainly not Flash), using transformation properties – translate, rotate, skew and scale. Check out the link for an impressive demo rendering of a 3D polygon.

3. Layer Styles


A photoshop-like interface for generating advanced CSS such as inner/outer shadows, gradients and rounded corners. We’re not far from the day that “designing in the browser” is as powerful as using dedicated tools like Photoshop.

4. How to apologize after breaking the nightly build


How would you make amends after breaking the nightly build of a project on your first commit? an active debate on the programmers StackExchange is dealing with this very issue.

5. iOS Media Query Previewer


Test how your site looks in iOS devices – iPhone and iPad – when your device specific media-queries are applied. Useful for you out there developing sites and web-apps that cater to the mobile market.

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