Roxstyle

catching up with Sublime Text 2 workflow

roxstyle — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:47:38 +0000

my good friend Micah passed on this link to Sublime Text 2 workflow techniques by Andrey Tarantsov. This has kept me busy all afternoon, with a bunch of new goodies. Yes! Loving LiveReload! This is a definite time saver compared to my previous workflow of multitudes of upload, refresh, edit…repeat. and SublimeSFTP means i’ll just … Continue reading →

2 steps forward, one back

roxstyle — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:10:28 +0000

On hasty advice, seeing respond.js removed from html5boilerplate i removed it from the head of my docs on my current projects. I did that on a day with 20 other things, and moved on. It wasn’t till a week later, that i had finished a section of layout for a current project UI, and it … Continue reading →

Busy Day with Rod and Asuh

roxstyle — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:51:18 +0000

MAMP Pro

set up local server

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/86-mamp/

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/87-moving-up-with-mamp/

sublimeText2

settled on Sunburst color scheme

command + shift + p > start typing in text field - "pa" get to package install takes you to a list of valuable packages

to start writing zen coding

Responsive Web Design

roxstyle — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:41:09 +0000

two years ago, i started with html5 in it’s very alpha stages, just updating my structural patterns to html5 and adding a few new form field attributes that would default to current text fields in browsers that do not understand them. at this point html5 boilerplate did not yet exist, and i was reading bits … Continue reading →

Week-ends’ reading

roxstyle — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:54:39 +0000

Perhaps the team you worked with for years has suddenly been downsized, or perhaps you just got to the point that you realize a need for an online presence and a place to host all those code experiments running around your head. Here is some of my week-end reading that you might consider for your … Continue reading →

Dissolution of the team

roxstyle — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:18:55 +0000

There is little agreeable to coming home to a letter from your companys’ 401K and pension plan, to read that you are no longer eligible for those plans. Unless, of course, it is the day that three quarters of that company team has just been let go, and you are, so far, still standing. All … Continue reading →

Flow in the process

roxstyle — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:59:31 +0000

I put together some of the reasoning behind some updates to a small section of a current project in keynote. The overall purpose of this phase, is for major back-end revamping, with moderate change to the UI. In this case, on looking at the current UI, it appears that little attention was paid to the … Continue reading →

What is UX

roxstyle — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:19:35 +0000

Nick Finck says it all…

Summer Reading

roxstyle — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:21:21 +0000

Responsive Web Design, written by Ethan Marcotte with a forward by Jeremy Keith; and The Elements of Content Strategy, written by Erin Kissane with a forward by Kristina Haverson can both be purchased from A Book Apart. More information and purchase for Adaptive Web Design, written by Aaron Gustafson with a forward by Jeffrey Zeldman … Continue reading →

textmate snippets

roxstyle — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:17:34 +0000

I recently came across this textmate tutorial “Use Textmate Bundles to Increase your Productivity”. It is easy to follow. If you aren’t familiar with adding language bundles to Textmate, you can start here Textmate Bundles, or get a list of current bundles. If you are a fan of HTML5 boilerplate, then you will be interested … Continue reading →