Introduction to RequireJS Jack Franklin, writing at The JavaScript Playground, gives us this decent introduction to RequireJS. It doesn't go into too much depth, and I wish he'd spent a little more time to discuss using it in a larger project–but it's enough to get you off the ground if you're new to RequireJS. (tagged: […]
Sass Tutorials A video series on YouTube re: using Sass. (tagged: video SCSS CSS Sass ) Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming By Stephen Wyatt Bush. Good advice, no matter what field you're in. (tagged: essay advice programming ) Prismatic Architecture: Using Machine Learning on Social Networks to Figure Out What You Should […]
DevRates "Open source reviews by real users" (via @kheiligh) (tagged: open source ) Lessons for devs from a responsive build Peter Gasston, writing at Broken Links. (tagged: media query responsive design mobile first ) Bless Bless provides an elegant solution to a lesser-known bug in Internet Explorer which causes CSS to be completely ignored. (tagged: […]
DARPA Wants to Create Space Scavengers to Leech on Dead Satellites At Gizmodo. (tagged: research space robot ) Share Cropping By Kathryn Flagg, writing for Seven Days. Speaking for myself, I have kind of a love/hate relationship with the CSA model. On the one hand, it's incredibly convenient to get a weekly stash of straight-from-the-farm […]
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings Nice round-up by Peteris Krumins, with good explanations. (tagged: bash ) Shall we use Clojure A presentation by Andrew Jones. Have you heard all these points before? Hear them again. (tagged: Andrew Jones Clojure ) Guide to CSS support in email At Campaign Monitor. Looks handy. (tagged: […]
Single-direction margin declarations By Harry Roberts, writing at CSS Wizardry: I’m not sure how I arrived at this rule, but I’m really glad I did and I would likely never ever change it. The basic premise is that you should try and define all your margins in one direction. This means always use margin-bottom to […]
My Perception of CoffeeScript Leon Gersing: CoffeeScript sees the world through OO’s eyes. When I see JavaScript, I find beauty in it’s ability to be a dynamically typed Functional programming language. (that’s your TL;DR;, friends.) The post is a few months old now, but I feel like it's still relevant and captures a lot of […]
CSS3 Animations: the Hiccups and Bugs You’ll Want to Avoid At Webdesigntuts+. Note to self: review these suggestions against the personal blog's stylesheets and see if it fixes that one little thing… (Bonus points if you've noticed that one little thing as well.) (tagged: CSS3 ) idiomatic-css Nicholas Gallagher: The following document outlines a reasonable […]
Real world Clojure Wonderfully thoughtful and balanced bullet-point style post by Alex Miller at Pure Danger Tech on their experience at Revelytix with "Clojure in the real world". (tagged: Clojure Alex Miller ) Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team Colin Steele: […]
JavaScript Study Guide By Chris Shiflett (via my Prismatic feed). I'm working on a similar list myself, and was glad to see something else like this out there. Shiflett's is an interesting list with some great choices. Three things that came to mind while browsing it: [1] “That’s a lot of PHP…” [2] I’ll ding […]