Does CoffeeScript Have a Future? The most interesting bit in here was Joel Turnbull quoting Tom Dale: I’m not so confident now. What has shifted? Tom Dale states in the thread “Every CoffeeScript developer knows JavaScript. The inverse is not true.” This rings true for me, and it’s not so much that something has shifted. […]
Decoupling Your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Philip Walton: Almost every type of coupling between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be lessened with an appropriate use of classes and a predictable class naming convention. Long read, but he has lots of good points. And as he points out, a lot of these are easy (and tempting) […]
Do the right thing, Wait to get fired Brendan Sterne: In general these rules are better than the alternative – no guideposts or structure. They help new managers and teams to function effectively. They push employees to do things in a good way. But greatness rarely happens by following rules, process and structure. That is […]
Five Patterns to Help You Tame Asynchronous JavaScript Decent post by Jim Coward (writing for the Tech.pro blog) covering callbacks, the observer pattern, messaging, promises, and finite state machines — all as approaches to dealing with your async JavaScript. It's a decent read and is a fairly comprehensive survey. There is some nit-picking that can […]
The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things At The Verge — a great collection of LHC images. For some reason, I get a kick out of the "MAGNET STATUS" sticker every time I look at it. (tagged:
Sass Style Guide By Chris Coyier, writing at CSS-Tricks. I largely agree with this list, but I'm not sure I get the assertion that you should put @includes after "regular" styles. If you're ordering the CSS properties according to some specific scheme (e.g., Zen Ordering) then wouldn't you want the output of your mixins to […]
Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie David Storey, on the Smashing Coding blog, and taken from Redesign The Web (The Smashing Book #3). (tagged: CSS flexbox ) Vermont Food System Atlas (tagged: food Vermont ) gitignore.io Interesting. Terribly interesting… (tagged: gitignore.io git ) CSS content and attr Awesome tip and somewhat […]
Haruki Murakami and the Art of Japanese Translations Roland Kelts, writing for The New Yorker: Rubin said that the first time he translated a Murakami novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, he phoned the author several times a day to nail word choices and correct inconsistencies. “In one scene, a character had black-framed glasses. In another, […]
Agile in name only James Turner: In contrast, a company that’s agile in name only will cling to a distant release date and a laundry list of features, but still insist on short sprints and closing stories. (tagged: Agile ) shame.css Harry Roberts: You’d be forgiven for thinking the point of this whole exercise is […]
Animation in AngularJS At yearofmoo.com — looks like first class support for animations is well under way as part of the core AngularJS library. (tagged: animation AngularJS JavaScript ) Building a strong foundation for Vermont’s technology future Interesting piece by Pete Brown (writing over at Beerlington) on the local Vermont tech scene and really building […]