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msurguy

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Design Technologist at Amazon. Former Front end dev at NBC News, creator of Bootsnipp.com, PlotterFiles, DrawingBots, Laravel-tricks.com and more. Author of few books

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unnecessaryui.com 4mo ago

Unnecessary UI – Satirical UX / UI Demos

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www.patreon.com 4y ago

Restoring HP7475a Plotter

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drawingbots.net 6y ago

Show HN: Drawingbots.net – Website for Plotter Enthusiasts

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msurguy.github.io 6y ago

Show HN: Mathematical art SVG creator with infinite variations

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: Sample App for Nuxt and Express and Automatic Now Deployments

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msurguy.github.io 7y ago

Show HN: Rad Lines, a free tool for creating SVGs for CNC machines

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www.carbondesignsystem.com 7y ago

IBM’s open-source design system for products and experiences

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codepen.io 7y ago

Show HN: Mathematical Art for plotters

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msurguy.github.io 11y ago

JQuery plugin for blurring images on the client

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codepen.io 11y ago

Dynamic Avatar Background Blur

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codepen.io 11y ago

Triangle Background generator

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github.com 11y ago

Stream http push technology for your Nginx. Comet made easy and really scalable

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codingmath.com 11y ago

Coding Math

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designcode.io 11y ago

Design with Swift

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maxoffsky.com 12y ago

Show HN: An e-book about integrating front end libraries

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vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk 12y ago

VIPS – very fast image processing with any amount of RAM

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panopanda.co 12y ago

Show HN: PanoPanda – service for sharing panoramas

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maxoffsky.com 12y ago

Show HN: Delaunay triangulation wallpaper creator with PNG/SVG export.

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msurguy.github.io 12y ago

Delaunay triangle pattern maker

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maxoffsky.com 12y ago

Creating bar graphs with AJAX and Morris

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bookpag.es 12y ago

Show HN : A site for creating launch pages for books

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github.com 12y ago

Source of Laravel-tricks.com website

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vintagemessage.com 12y ago

Show HN : a site to create vintage computer terminal messages

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maxoffsky.com 12y ago

Implementing Smart Search with Laravel and Selectize

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maxoffsky.com 12y ago

Using Polymorphic relationships in Laravel for SEO content

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www.laravel-tricks.com 12y ago

Show HN : Laravel Tricks

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builtwithlaravel.com 12y ago

Built with Laravel

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bootsnipp.com 12y ago

Snippets and Playground for devs that use Bootstrap framework

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maxoffsky.com 12y ago

Announcing new Bootsnipp

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cheatsheetr.com 12y ago

All your cheatsheets belong to us

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I work with Arduino on ESP chips.

I could not imagine embedded development without PlatformIO. With just so many types of hardware, each having slight dofferences and intricacies, it quickly becomes wasteful to use individual solutions. PlatformIO accomplishes so many goals at once, I am deeply grateful for this product!

Sure. I'll clarify about the material and progression so that it's clear.

First you build the HTML of the form (chapter 1 covers that). Then you learn how to work with visual feedback (spinners and alerts, chapters 2 & 3). Then creating AJAX contact form integrates the stuff from chapters 1-3 to create AJAX contact form and connect it with the backend. Chapter 5 goes a step further - building login and registration forms using stuff from chapters 1-4 plus inline validation, integrating all previous components and things you built.

The book isn't for noobs. The prerequisites section (https://leanpub.com/frontend/read#leanpub-auto-about-the-aut...) clearly explains that so the developers who don't understand JS semantics or don't know the basics of web applications should learn something else before they get back to this book.

Thanks for the tip. What's wrong with using jQuery? When you do the hiring are you looking for someone who takes up a couple months and rolls their own libraries or someone who can get the job done quickly by using existing open source projects? The AJAX file uploaders are super tricky, the one used in the book has a jQuery wrapper but can work without it, you'd only spend about 300% more time integrating it.

[dead] 12 years ago

Love it, simple and effective. I like the linking between the pages and the clean UI. I think using icons for the formatting buttons would make it even better.

Thanks for the feedback! The purpose of the book is to feature complete integration of various libraries and frameworks with a backend. Laravel is chosen as an example framework so that the developer can have a complete solution instead of just some theory.

In the prerequisites to the book it clearly states that novice developers will have a hard time unless they have some backend experience.

Making around 500$/month from a carbon ad on my http://bootsnipp.com (free Bootstrap snippets), plus a couple hundred from affiliate income that I link to from the site... Time spent originally was 4 days.

Released a new improved version of the site two weeks ago (the rewrite took about 60-80 hours total but has bigger potential for the site). Now thinking of selling templates or skins on the site too - that would be a whole lot more $ than the ad...

Creator of Bootsnipp here, in fact the new Bootsnipp that I am building will be something along the lines of snippets+ interactive prototyping + hand coding if needed. Anybody will be able to build up on existing templates right there on Bootsnipp, no code editor needed.

I'm the creator of Bootsnipp.com and I will put a nice centralized resources page on bootsnipp soon, right now I have all the resources in the Bootsnipp twitter account @bootsnipp. Hopefully that will be helpful!

Bootsnipp.com creator here... I really do not appreciate that somebody just ripped off my idea completely, the layout, the thumbnails styles, etc.

Maybe you can change it up a little? There is also Foundation by Zurb that does not have a site like bootsnipp, feel free to make that isntead =)

Divshot 14 years ago

A bit unrelated, but I wanted to thank Mark and @fat, I think the president of the United States and the governor of the Universe should personally award them for creating so many jobs throughout the world. Bootstrap created lots of opportunities for people, startups, established companies and everyone in between. I really appreciate the work of @markdotto and @fat making Bootstrap. You guys rock!