TThor - Issue #09

Hello!

It's been a busy week at TThor headquarters. I pushed out a redesign of the TThor site and partnered with LaunchBit. This partnership will give me a diverse selection of relevant freebies, offers and services to offer the TThor community. It will also help sustain the modest costs of producing a weekly newsletter. Please show your support by visiting these new awesome sponsors.

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//Top5//

• Funktion font by Kyle Steed (kylesteed.com)
• 8 traits of great Metro style apps (msdn.com)
• F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11 (washingtonpost.com)
• Free textures for your next web project (subtlepatterns.com | via @bigdmachine)
• iOS Boilerplate - base template for iOS apps (iosboilerplate.com)

//Design//

• Farewell to CSS3 Gradients (designfestival.com)
• 9 Things designers can learn from Target checkout form (uxmovement.com)
• An in-depth study of symbols in Illustrator CS5 (smashingmagazine.com)
• The Font-Bot project (font-bot.com | via Lost in Pixelation)

//Dev//

• Getting started with the Google+ API (googleplusplatform.blogspot.com)
• Google and the future of JavaScript (infrequently.org)
• Introductory two-day ruby course (github.com)
• Agent Orange - parse user agents with rails (github.com)
• Easily use Backbone.js with Rails (github.com)
• Mercury Editor - full featured HTML5 editor (jejacks0n.github.com)
• Resources for, and how I learned Backbone.js (lostechies.com)
• Huge collection of code snippets: HT Access, PHP, Wordpress..etc (perishablepress.com)

//Tech//

• Metro (daringfireball.net)
• Google's plan to kill JavaScript with Dart, fight off Apple (theregister.co.uk)
• Google dart email (gist.github.com)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview video tour (zdnet.com)
• Xbox Live for Windows 8 (joystiq.com)
• Tested Quicklook: Windows 8 dev preview (tested.com)
• The difference between Microsoft and Apple? It starts with communication (thisismynext.com)

//Geek//

• Russia's finest purveyors of Miniature Lap Giraffes (PetiteLapGiraffe.com | via @donmarucut)
• The quest for the golden Nintendo game (arstechnica.com)
• Epic fight choreography: Kirk vs. Gorn (boingboing.net)

//Photography//

• Sunrise in Cesky Krumlov (flickr.com)
• Lake Louise on the Rocks (flickr.com)

//App of the Week//iOS//

• Flightcard (sylion.com)

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