Coderbits: Interactive Portfolios for Developers and Designers

Programmers and creatives, you can now show your specific skills, the tools and environments you mostly use, the languages you are most familiar with, and your best traits in one place (and all up-to-date) with Coderbits.

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To Two Great Pioneers: Thank you, Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie

This has been a disheartening October to all of us. As most of you may already know, we lost a great visionary who has changed the way most of us live today. That is Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc. and the mastermind to all the i's in the world - the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and the list goes on. Unknowingly to most, we lost another pioneer who also had contributed greatly to the software and application development industry. He is no other than Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language, and one of the main developers for the UNIX system.

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Common (Stupid) Mistakes Newbie Programmers Commit

It's a regular day in webland: checking your email, browsing websites, of course signing up for services online, then you encountered a form. You started typing in your preferred username, then you are going to press the tab key after you typed your password on the field when all of a sudden, you can clearly see the password you just typed. To your surprise, you shouted carelessly and everybody in the room looked at your screen, exposing the password you've been using for years.

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10 Mindblowing Chrome Experiments You Should See

Last September, I posted about The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive website featuring the music video of Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait." It is a part of the Chrome Experiments, a collection of works built from the latest open technologies such as HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. To this date, many works have been submitted from all over the world and many are quite remarkable. Here are the experiments L-I recommends you to see.

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Scratch: Programming in Puzzle Pieces, Even Kids Can Program!

Do you find your kids spending hours on playing games? You may want to introduce them to Scratch. They can create their own games and animations, recreate others', and share them to other kids - all without having to write lines of codes. Scratch is a programming language where you program by dragging and dropping code pieces together, like those in a jigsaw puzzle.

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The Wilderness Downtown Experience

The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive movie website created using HTML5, the next major HTML on the web. As I was browsing Twitter, I've read a tweet from Reddit saying "I cannot begin to describe how mindblowing this is.... (tip: view in Google Chrome) [programming] 358 points http://reddit.com/d7vqx"

SPOILER ALERT: I suggest you should check this site first to have your own The Wilderness Downtown Experience as well. The following paragraphs will spoil you if you haven't checked the site yet. ;-)

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