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Dave Klein: Interview with Paul Irish, HTML5 expert and community leader (Inspire Magazine)
I think it’s important to publish what you learn. There’s really no school for front-end development. You can’t go to a university for a JavaScript degree or a class about how browsers work. Most of us learn from blogs and Twitter. Early in my career, I learned a bunch of things whenever I worked on a project, but I never told other people about them. So my general advice is to publish what you learn, share with the community, and collaborate on projects that help move the community forward.
inspiration  webdevelopment  css  html  design 
9 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
StateFace
United States state shapes as a font.
A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element.
font  icons  maps  typography  webdevelopment 
9 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Annie Lowrey: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers. (Slate Magazine)
Mixed into a story about the author trying to learn to program.
education  programming  ruby  webdevelopment  hacking  computers 
10 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Dan Hill: If You Get eval(base64-Hacked on Wordpress/Dreamhost
wordpress  webdevelopment  hacking  programming  security 
february 2012 by matthewmcvickar
David Heinemeier Hansson: All or something (37signals)
‘The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.’
business  startup  webdevelopment 
february 2012 by matthewmcvickar
Paul Irish: High-res browser logos
‘They are 32bit PNGs, each have their own official shadow treatment, and no background matte color.’
browser  icons  webdevelopment 
february 2012 by matthewmcvickar
HTML5 Please
‘Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are.’
html5  css3  webdevelopment 
january 2012 by matthewmcvickar
Mathias Bynens: Notes Archive
As Paul Irish put it, ‘Some of the finest research and writing about HTML & CSS & JS.’
html  js  css  webdevelopment 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
CSS Prototyping
‘This is a simple trick to overlay a grid or a mock-up over a page you're styling. It will also allow you to edit content directly in the browser to see how your layout behaves depending on various lines of text.’
css  webdesign  webdevelopment  copywriting  grid 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
webexpedition18: Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets
css  webdesign  webdevelopment 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
David Walsh: Change Mobile Safari Highlight Color with CSS
Change the tap highlight color in WebKit Mobile-using devices (many of them).
webkit  css  ios  webdesign  webdevelopment 
october 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Matt Legend Gemmell: SEO for Non-dicks
‘I’m asked sometimes for advice on building an internet presence, and I usually have to fumble for an answer ± because I haven’t pursued any particular strategy beyond the glaringly obvious: create original, relevant content repeatedly.’
seo  webdevelopment  web  internet 
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Design Basics
The essentials of being an effective, successful, and professional designer.
socialmedia  work  society  webdevelopment 
september 2011 by matthewmcvickar
CSS Lint
Looks at your CSS and tells you what's wrong with it.
css  webdevelopment 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Yahoo! Developer Network: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
“The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 35 best practices divided into 7 categories.”
performance  webdevelopment 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
HTML5 Rocks: Improving the Performance of your HTML5 App
html5  webdevelopment  webdesign  performance 
june 2011 by matthewmcvickar
PageUp People: Front end standards
Return to this. A good set of standards, including some things that I wasn't aware of and would like to implement.
css  html  reference  webdevelopment  performance 
may 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Andre Torrez: an empathetic plan
“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”

…

“Worse is when the people doing the complaining also make software or web sites or iPhone applications themselves. As visible leaders of the web, I think there are a lot of folks who could do a favor to younger, less experienced people by setting an example of critiquing to raise up rather than critiquing to tear down.”
development  software  webdevelopment  startup 
april 2011 by matthewmcvickar
placekitten
“A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width and height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.”
webdevelopment  cats 
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
tumblr2wp
“Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install. This tool will create a WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) file from your tumblr site which can be imported into WordPress.”
blog  web  webdevelopment  wordpress  tumblr 
march 2011 by matthewmcvickar
GitHub: mailchimp/Email-Blueprints
For sending HTML email.
email  webdevelopment 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Smarterware: How to Ditch GoDaddy (Redux)
Move to NameCheap, which is cheap, and there is a discount code.
domain  internet  webdevelopment  godaddy 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Utilu IE Collection
This works. Goodbye and good riddance, three IE-dedicated VMs.
browser  webdevelopment  iebug  windows  software 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
1stwebdesigner: 20 snippets you should be using from HTML5 Boilerplate
Sounds stupid and listy but it's actually a good introduction to some of the more useful and practical pieces of the huge insane HTML5 Boilerplate (html5boilerplate.com).
css  html  html5  performance  javascript  webdevelopment 
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Safari Developer Library
apple  safari  mobilesafari  webdevelopment  html5  css3  documentation  reference  mobile  web  webkit  ios 
november 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Presenting Design Like You Get Paid For It
How to present and sell design: 1) Don't wing it — postpone until you're ready. 2) Really sell your design — the idea that 'good design speaks for itself' is a myth. 3) Don't get subjective or allow your feelings to get hurt — tell them to tell you when it doesn't work. 4) Don't embarrass the client — make them look good, be honest, listen to them.
webdevelopment  business  design  communication 
november 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Cognition: Bloodhounding Budgets
How to figure out what a client's budget really is. "Don't be smarmy. Don't be curt. Be respectful, be honest, and inform your prospect during the sales process. If you do it right, right from the start, you'll build mutual respect and communication into the entire project."
webdevelopment  business  money  pricing  sales  communication 
november 2010 by matthewmcvickar
ReinH: A Git Workflow for Agile Teams
What we (try to) do at FamilyID.
git  workflow  programming  agile  webdevelopment 
november 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Camen Design: How to Centre and Layout Pages Without a Wrapper
webdesign  webdevelopment  html  css  howto 
august 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Efficiently Rendering CSS
Jury's out on how much this really matters in 2010, but still a great set of tips.
css  webdevelopment  performance 
august 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Font Squirrel
"Create Your Own @font-face Kits."
fonts  webdesign  webdevelopment  type  typography  free  css3  design 
august 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Ping Brigade
"Ping Brigade is a service that lets you measure how quickly your website loads from around the world. The time it takes to load your web pages has a huge impact on how your visitors perceive you. For example for every 0.5 second delay you may lose 30% of the visitors waiting for your website to load. Additionally, Google has recently announced that it will be taking web server speed into account when determining you website's page rank."
webdevelopment  usability  architecture 
august 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Metric Mail
"Every week, you get a PDF report via email that gives you an overview of your website's stats. All you need is a Google Analytics account."
google  analytics  email  statistics  webdevelopment  googleanalytics 
august 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Font Matrix
"Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite."
fonts  osx  windows  adobe  adobecs  msoffice  typography  webdesign  webdevelopment 
july 2010 by matthewmcvickar
When Can I Use
"Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies."
html5  css3  svg  html  css  webdesign  webdevelopment  ie  browser 
july 2010 by matthewmcvickar
A List Apart: Articles: Supersize that Background, Please!
How to make an background image scale without using a ton of JavaScript.
webdevelopment  webdesign  css  css3  design  html 
july 2010 by matthewmcvickar
git read: Learn git One Commit at a Time
I'm going to read and internalize all of this one day. Yes I am.
howto  programming  reference  software  git  documentation  development  webdevelopment 
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Dark Crimson Blog: Getting Started with HTML5 Local Databases
Saved for later…
html5  webdevelopment 
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Ben Ward: Understand the Web
What 'the web' actually is, and why building desktop-class applications on it is not what it was built for.
adobe  apple  web  internet  html  css  webdevelopment  webstandards  history 
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
The New Yorker: Andrey Ternovskiy: Roulette Russian
The story of Chat Roulette's teenage creator. Where will it lead?
chatroulette  russia  webdevelopment  startup  internet 
may 2010 by matthewmcvickar
jQuery Tutorials for Designers
Total linkbait I know but there's some useful stuff here.
jquery  jqueryui  javascript  webdesign  webdevelopment  tutorial 
april 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Mislav on Uniqpath: Detecting device size
Using CSS to detect device size (for things like iPads and iPhones).
css  ipad  iphone  mobile  webdevelopment  webdesign  css3 
april 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Raphaël
"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library."
webdevelopment  webdesign  javascript  animation  graphics  visualization  jquery  svg 
october 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Google Code: The Golden Grid
This may be worth looking into. I waffle on whether this sort of thing is ultimately a good decision — you're relying on someone else's framework, it takes a while to learn and master, and once you decide to go with it you're essentially stuck with it. But isn't that the case with any pseudo-framework developed for a website design? I should test this on a little project.
webdevelopment  design  webdesign  css  html  grid  code  opensource 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
GitHub: Scaling Background by Justin Ouellette
As seen on Normative.com.
design  webdevelopment  webdesign  html  css  opensource  javascript 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
GitHub: Sliding Frames by Justin Ouellette
As seen on Normative.com.
opensource  javascript  webdesign  webdevelopment  design 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
WebAIM: History of the browser user-agent string
Short, irreverent, accurate, and funny.
webdevelopment  browserwars  Internet  software  history  funny 
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
HTTP Client
"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."
software  osx  web  webdevelopment  opensource  internet  http 
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
IETester
A "free browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."
browser  webdevelopment  webdesign  windows  software  utilities  IE 
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Microsoft: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Invaluable for troubleshooting web development in IE. Wish I'd known about this before today!
CSS  IE  webdevelopment  windows  software  utilities  browser  bugs 
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Coding Horror: Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?
"I'd much rather rely on a subset of trusty old HTML than expend brain cells trying to remember the fake-HTML way to make something bold, or create a hyperlink. HTML isn't perfect, but it's an eminently reasonable humane markup language."
html  webdevelopment  text  usability 
may 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Jeremy Smith's Blog: Success! IE 6, 7, and 8 Running on Same Machine (Plus 5.5 and 5.01)
hack  IE  webdevelopment 
march 2008 by matthewmcvickar
37signals: Fire the Workaholics
In response to Calacanis' "fire people who aren't workaholics" bullshit. "If your start-up can only succeed by being a sweatshop, your idea is simply not good enough."
business  startup  webdevelopment 
march 2008 by matthewmcvickar
The Hivelogic Enkoder
Hide an email address from spammers with Javascript-powered character encoding. Sweet.
email  javascript  webdevelopment 
january 2008 by matthewmcvickar
User First Web: Problems with Web Standards: Part II
"Given the coming battle for dominance over the mobile web and the size of the potential market (over half the world’s population), the most likely outcome is that we will see a return to proprietary extensions—a replay of the browser wars..."
webstandards  webdevelopment 
january 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Particletree: Reflections of an Interface Designer
Some rather obvious reflections, but valuable all the same -- the continued appearance of articles like this shows how important these lessons are. On the volatility of web apps, designers, the relationship thereof, and how important the user is.
webdevelopment  design  webdesign  webapp 
january 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Global Moxie: Great Finish! Now Start Running
Big Medium developer Josh Clarks talks about the many miles to go after completing the launch milestone, the importance of long and consistent hours, and the constant refinement of software development and support.
business  startup  software  webdevelopment 
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
The WebKit Open Source Project
"WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications."
webdevelopment  software  opensource  apple 
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
ZDNet.com: OpenID 2.0 specification released
What's new in OpenID 2.0. There are "160 million already existing OpenIDs." Still, we need "support for OpenID-authenticated commenting by the major blog hosters."
openid  privacy  webdevelopment  internet 
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
ies4osx
Run IE5, 5.5, 6, and 7 in OS X under X11 emulation. It actually works perfectly and installs in minutes with a few clicks.
IE  osx  software  webdevelopment  free 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
rsaquo
text  typography  webdevelopment  character 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
A List Apart: Articles: How to Size Text in CSS
Finally, a tutorial for getting size and line height to render and scale exactly the same in all browsers for a given font size. Requires some basic math in the stylesheet.
typography  web  webdevelopment  webdesign  css3  howto  grid 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
From Plaxo, the black sheep of Web 2.0. Good instructions.
openid  tutorial  webdevelopment  socialnetworking  identity 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Paparazzi!
Free Mac software for taking webpage screenshots. Can capture the entire length of a page (beyond the "fold").
mac  software  webdevelopment  utilities  webdesign  osx  free  screenshot 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
urlgreyhot: OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette
An excellent resource for wireframing.
webdevelopment  webdesign  design  free  gui  osx  software  wireframe 
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Adactio: Journal: Semantic brevity
On using microformats in posts and the like. Takes a considerable amount of extra effort, but that's what being an early adopter is all about.
microformats  webdevelopment  semanticweb 
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Sakuzaku: I Am Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X -- Automatically (And So Can You!)
Like it says, a shell script to automatically install the perfect Ruby on Rails development environment on OS X. Useful!
rubyonrails  ruby  subversion  mongrel  mysql  webdevelopment  osx  shell  unix  terminal 
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
User First Web: Speed of a Site and Usability
Notes on optimizing for speed and the benefits thereof. Note: "If someone completes their task on a site successfully, they will feel the site was faster than it truly was. If they can’t succeed, they will perceive it as being slower."
usability  webdevelopment  webdesign 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Edgework by Brian Oberkirch
Great interviews with web developers and luminaries, including Khoi Vinh, Jason Fried of 37signals, Jeff Veen, Merlin Mann, Heather Champ, Dan Cederholm, and Guy Kawasaki.
podcast  webdevelopment  internet  interview  inspiration 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Keryx (X)HTML Elements Best Practice Sheet
Detailed to the point of being almost unreadable!
html  css  webdevelopment  webdesign  webstandards  cheatsheet  reference 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Functioning Form: Overlap 2007
Notes on the growing importance of design in business. Good short reads.
webdevelopment  webdesign  design  business  technology  internet 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Blogging Persai
Persai is the Web 2.0 app of the guys who write Uncov. They've been pre-blogging the app for months now. I'm not sure how many people are reading this because I've seen zero mention of it anywhere, but it's a nice model to follow anyway.
blog  web2.0  webdevelopment  startup 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Shaun Inman: Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM
Ugly "Browse..." buttons be gone!
CSS  webdevelopment  webdesign  javascript  html  forms 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Joel on Software: There's no place like 127.0.0.1
On starting over. "It's better to have something we're both proud off than to try and salvage the work done so far. Sometimes you have to go all the way through the design process before you realize that you've built the wrong thing."
design  webdevelopment  webdesign  business  agile  process 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Luke Wroblewski: The Continuing History of Amazon’s Tab Navigation
A history of Amazon's site design, and a preview of what's next.
amazon  webdevelopment  webdesign  internet  history 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Adactio: Journal: Parroting Pareto
Discussion, in regards to mircoformats and WHATWG , of the value of the "Pareto Principle," which states that 80% of the problems should be solved with 20% of the effort.
pareto  whatwg  microformats  webdevelopment  html5 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Vitamin: How to price your web application
business  pricing  finance  internet  webdevelopment  webapp 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Interview with Leah Culver: The Making of Pownce
The technologies that went into the latest one-to-many message-tumblr-filesharing-social web app.
pownce  webdevelopment  interview 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Read/WriteWeb: Twitter's Open Platform Advantage
The API, which "has 10 times as much traffic as the site itself," has been arguably the biggest reason for Twitter's success. I'd say its simplicity and the fact that it was more or less the first of its kind were just as important. Good article.
socialnetworking  social  web  webdevelopment 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Coudal Partners: What We Do
An awesome collective of creative/design types. A great "About" page.
design  webdevelopment  creativity  inspiration 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
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