Delicious.com - Discover Yourself!

TDD for Those Who Don't Need It - The Devel!

3 saves http://blog.choonkeat.com/weblog/2012/06/tdd-for-those-who-dont-need-it.htm...

I am one of those who think I do not do anything essential to write tests, but Choonkeat's post is pretty convincing why tests make writing code a walk in the park.

Fluent 2012: Paul Irish, "Javascript Development Workflow of 2013" - YouTube

10 saves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7AU2Ozu8eo

Even if JavaScript is not your thing, watch this video as it is about web development.

A lot of times, we just get by with the workflow we have because it is "okay", or "not bad". But this is a lie, what is "not bad" is sucking your energy, your love for web development, one frustrating moment at a time.

Spend a week or a month setting up your tools, your workflow. This video gives a splendid introduction to some of the tools that can help you be pleased with web development for a change. Do not forget to revise your workflow as you come across better tools.

ECMAScript Language Specification - ECMA-262 Edition 5.1

24 saves http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/

O M G. It is finally here. The JavaScript syntax spec in ACTUAL HTML.

Use IMG tags only for Images - EricLaw's IEInternals - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

8 saves http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2012/05/05/problems-with-using-...

Seems odd that this needs to be reiterated, but it does. Just like you shouldn't be using localStorage for caching assets. Seems like we forgot all the essentials while being enamoured by the mirage of cool features.

Media Query & Asset Downloading Results | TimKadlec.com

121 saves http://timkadlec.com/2012/04/media-query-asset-downloading-results/

Good news, you can override an image cascade.

Bad news, browsers cant even agree on a proper prefix syntax:

-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio / min--moz-device-pixel-ratio (wut?) / -o-min-device-pixel-ratio/min-device-pixel-ratio

The Downfall of Imperative Programming | FP Complete

1 save http://fpcomplete.com/the-downfall-of-imperative-programming/#comments

"You may be a very disciplined expert concurrent programmer and still, a less knowledgeable member of your team may break your code and nothing in the language is going to prevent it. No whistles will blow, no bells will ring."

Every language or program that requires superior output needs to pave the path for everyone to use good defaults to begin with. Making it easier to program poorly only makes it harder to be adopted widely. Luckily for us, JavaScript seems to be wanting to go in this direction than before.

Dropbox tech blog » Blog Archive » zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimatio...

149 saves http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=165

Wow, this is amazing. The dropbox team has opensourced a small JavaScript file that tests the strength of a user-typed password. This hopefully should bring a sense of rationality to password creation in the future. Please don't be annoying and ask for 2 numeric characters and maximum of 10 letters and including specific symbols like A, $, $.

About those vector icons · Pushing Pixels

142 saves http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html

Interesting post on why SVG is not ready for the web. I have two reservations though: 1. Resolutions are always getting higher, not lower. 2. The concern is to make the physical sizes relatively equal across all resolutions, not to scale up and down.

These two concerns are not addressed in any of this discussion on SVG. I do agree that hinting is essential for scaling logos across large and tiny sizes, but Apple's retina display does not quite require that.

CSS px is an Angular Measurement

42 saves http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx

Pixels as defined in radians. Now you can find out how to measure the distance of earth from the moon in pixels!!

CSS Transforms

6 saves http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-transforms/

This is where the final converged specs of 2d/3d and svg transforms is being drafted. The most significant change appears to be the lack of DOM interfaces for CSSMatrix. Not sure if anybody used them before.

Art of Isaac Sprague

1 save http://cdm16057.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p15482coll4/displa...

Very amazing illustrations of the birds, animals of New England done in the early 19th century. View full width on a very large monitor to appreciate!

The Designer’s Guide to the OSX Command Prompt

127 saves http://wiseheartdesign.com/articles/2010/11/12/the-designers-guide-to-the-o...

A good introduction to the command line on OSX. Who will write a similar one for Windows and Linuxes?

HTML 5 field guide to web applications : programming

1 save http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/po62y/html_5_field_guide_to_we...

Some really great content on architecting web apps couched in a 'book' skeumorph and loly illustrations. Funny that the design goes against the very principles this document advocates.

Make your window smaller to make this more readable.

The Criterion Collection

10 saves http://criterioncollection.tumblr.com/

The Criterion Collection recently joined Tumblr with posts of excellent photographs from some of the greatest movies (or making of). I wish they combined forces with http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Supporting Accessibility: Betsie, Text Only, and the Se...

3 saves http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/02/accessibility_betsie_text.ht...

"The browser is a better place for [accessibility] customisation to happen".

I cannot more heartily agree on this. The impetus on providing an accessible web should be on the browsers not on the web developers or even users.

Vim anti-patterns | Arabesque

285 saves http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-anti-patterns/

I keep forgetting the navigation shortcuts:

{ — Move to start of previous paragraph or code block.
} — Move to end of next paragraph or code block.
Ctrl+F — Move forward one screenful.
Ctrl+B — Move backward one screenful.

Some other awesome tips in there for new vim users :)

Graphemica - For people who ♥ letters, numbers, punctuation,

159 saves http://graphemica.com/

If you love using unicode characters as icons, graphemica is your go-to source. /via @mathias on twitter.

Path Puts a silly amount of trust in its avatars

8 saves http://sexpigeon.org/post/16729718345/path-puts-a-silly-amount-of-trust-in-...

This post talks about something I miss in web design - shabbiness - wanting to adopt something as your own, connect with an application, and don't want to give up - the application and you spending time learning about each other, delighting one another, and growing old together.

We like pets because they grow old with us and die - not because they remain cute, shiny and unlearning.

I still have my 'pencil box' from 8th grade. It is very used, very shabby and full of pencil/ink marks. Compass needle scratches all over. I do look at it, and I know it left an imprint on me like I did (literally) on it.

What apps do that to you (emacs/vim/textmate users don't answer)?

Typograph – Scale & Rhythm

1843 saves http://lamb.cc/typograph/

I have railed against 24ways's Composing the New Canon http://24ways.org/2011/composing-the-new-canon which (I still assert) has several incomprehensible statements that try very hard to associate type setting with music.

But, this page - published in 2009 - makes a case and how. The article goes back to the Robert Bringhurst's advice to compose to a _scale_ which could just be _any_ scale and what more, offers tools to adjust the text to some preset scales (pity about Opera support though :( ).

Do read his other posts on typography which are dated but still relevant: http://lamb.cc/blog/css-ligature-support/ and http://lamb.cc/blog/the-case-for-numerals/

I wonder why Iain Lamb does not blog any more :(

A brief, opinionated history of XML - bobdc.blog

12 saves http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2012/01/a-brief-opinionated-history-of.html

This is a great overview of why XML was created and how it meandered from the path it was meant to take and where it is going now.

I have been one of the XML haters and quite boggled by why anyone would use XML as a data format. But this outlines how XML is primarily a document publication format which is vastly different from the use cases webapps attempt to solve.

If you require chapters of prose, table of contents, and pages, XML(& friends) is the right way to go. OTOH if you want to create applications that you want your users to interact with, in a form that is different from reading a book, you would want to consider other media.

/ via http://twitter.com/liza

Delicious

nimbupani