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Linkdump for April 22nd

by Rob Friesel

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 […]

Linkdump for April 15th

by Rob Friesel

Simplifying For The Wrong Reasons At Meng To's blog. The writing is a little choppy in spots, but this post is thoughtful and the message rings loud and clear: simplifying your interfaces is great, when you're actually simplifying; but if you're not careful you wind up just making something that's sterile and/or confusing. This isn't […]

Linkdump for March 7th

by Rob Friesel

Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown Ben Kamens (bjk5) breaks down the technique behind Amazon's awesome new mega menu, and then how they implemented the same technique for the Khan Academy site. And then he open sources that solution as the jQuery-menu-aim plugin. Awesome stuff. Also (from the comments): don't miss even more of the theoretical […]

Linkdump for February 20th

by Rob Friesel

The "Magic" behind AngularJS Dependency Injection Fascinating post by Alex Rothenberg wherein he digs deep into Angular.js to determine exactly why minification broke his application. (tagged: minification Angular.js JavaScript ) An Appropriate Use of Metrics By Patrick Kua, writing over at MarinFowler.com. The first (explanatory) half is a little on the long-winded side, but the […]

Linkdump for February 13th

by Rob Friesel

Opera Developer News – 300 million users and move to WebKit Big news from Opera. I can't decide if this is a relief, or a disturbing trend toward a kind of WebKit monoculture. These were my mixed feelings, and I had a hard time articulating them. Fortunately, Robert Nyman and John Resig expressed it all […]

Linkdump for January 24th

by Rob Friesel

Solving Problems The Square Way Austin Carr, writing for Fast Company: "We try to keep everything related to each other across our products and videos and marketing–they should all speak to each other," [Robert] Andersen says. "We hold each other accountable for designs that seem arbitrary at Square." (tagged: collaboration Square design ) AngularJS is […]

Linkdump for November 17th

by Rob Friesel

Chrome: Easier Web App Debugging With Multi-User Profiles Addy Osmani: I'm sure most of you know about this… No, Addy. No we did not. But that looks great, thanks for sharing! (tagged: developer tools Chrome Addy Osmani ) JavaScript DocumentFragment Short-ish piece on David Walsh's blog about using DocumentFragment. It's a bit of a review, […]

Linkdump for September 19th

by Rob Friesel

Cable Is the New Novel By Thomas Doherty, in The Chronicle of Higher Education. (tagged: essay narrative television serialization novel ) Do I Really Need A Style Guide? How to determine whether you need a style guide, and how to go about putting one together. (tagged: design style guide ) The End of Global Warming: […]

Linkdump for July 12th

by Rob Friesel

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 […]

Linkdump for July 6th

by Rob Friesel

A Software Architect On Chris Eppstein's Coderwall: A software architect lives to serve the engineering team — not the other way around. And ten more aphorisms just like that. (tagged: Chris Eppstein software architect software engineering ) Behold the Boötes void, the spookiest place in the cosmos At io9: There is another, albeit more radical […]