Last week I’ve been investigating about Web UI Patterns and anything concerning Social Media Patterns, mainly focused on building a consistent UI Pattern Toolkit that I’ll release as soon it will be ready.

In this searching I found some valuable resources with incredible useful UI Patterns solutions, with some discussions around them:

• The first resource is about patterns that applies to social media sites, there you can find a lot of ideas for implementing common interface problems in a homogeneous way. This decrease the “User first expectation” a lot by trying to apply the same solution across every site: Here’s the link: http://www.socialdesignpatterns.com/

• The second, and last, resource is focused directly on UI Patterns for the web. Here http://ui-patterns.com/ I found a lot of approaches that other sites have applied to it’s problems: drop-down menus, Calendar pickers, Activity streams, In-place editors, etc. all of them with screenshots and reviews.

Additionally, you can find a lot of books regarding this subject:

Certainly, some valuable UI Patterns solutions all of us must take in place. I hope you enjoy all of them and if you have any suggestion or tip please write a comment bellow.

When I met git, I fall in love in the moment. You can read any apointments I wrote previously here, and here (in spanish) but today I’ll explain how to restore files and directories from previous commits that it was deleted by a mistake or intentionally in the past.

It’s quite easy to revert or reset a single file from history, but what about pulling an entire directory out of the history?

The solution is simple:

git checkout ID_of_commit -- /path/to/dir

This will restore the directory from the given “commit with ID” in the /path/to/dir. Read the rest of this entry »