Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-29

• Tools for ideation and problem solving: Part 1 | Architectures | Dan Lockton

  he first article (to be split over two parts) is about toolkits (and similar things, starting with an exploration of idea generation methods), prompted by much recent interest in the subject via projects such as Lucy Kimbell, Guy Julier, Jocelyn Bailey and Leah Armstrong’s Mapping Social Design Research & Practice and Nesta’s Development Impact & You toolkit, and some of our discussions at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for the Creative Citizens project about different formats for summarising information effectively.

• Seven JavaScript Quirks I Wish I’d Known About | Telerik Developer Network

  This isn’t an exhaustive list – just a sampling – but hopefully it will shed some light on the language as well as show how powerful it can be once you get past these kinds of hurdles.

• Introducing Tamper · Tamper

  Tamper is a serialization protocol for categorical data. It achieves high compression ratios by finding the smallest possible binary representation for each category.

• taggingJS

  jQuery plugin to tagging like a charm!

• Postman - A powerful HTTP client to test web services

  Postman is a powerful HTTP client to help test web services easily and efficiently. Postman lets you craft simple as well as complex HTTP requests quickly. It also saves requests for future use so that you never have to repeat your keystrokes ever again. Postman is designed to save you and your team tons of time.

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