Month: June 2013

Reading on the current state of front-end development

Another timely article “8 Reasons why Pageless Design is the Future of the Web” to add to this frame of thinking. We are on this brink of a better way of working, more appropriate tools in the browsers for the work we do in this “internet” medium. Time to let go of the old paradigm …

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Connecting to TFS on a Mac

For over 10 years now, I have worked on a Mac with a .net back end. Depending on the tech teams setup, there are several ways to connect to TFS (Team foundation Server) method 1 use parallels, with windows installed, mapped to a shared folder install a visual studio shell (isolated) for windows8 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30670 for windows7 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1366 …

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Structuring SCSS and @media queries

i have run across a question on structure… and have not yet found the answer in this SaSS Reference. below i have  footer[role=”contentinfo”] and nested in the container is a ul, li, h1, and small styles. then there are two @media queries – i have nested the  footer[role=”contentinfo”] rules for each query is this correct? it compiles, but i’m …

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coding today

it’s been a heavy thinking week, that is, considering the hours outside of work and pushing boxes on screens around. this is a very insightful article into the industry I am surrounded by Are coders worth it? and on a grand scale ethics on a world scale (hint: Edward Snowden NSA discolsures). All this while moving …

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Web Design IS the Code

Update: Just finished reading Other Flexible Media: balloons and tattoos, which fits right in with the thought process below. This always happens, I start on a train of thought and I find others writing in the same vein. Just sayin’ “good” design is to succinctly take a concept and translate it into a tangible form through …

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REM, BEM, Grids

it has been a busy week. Lots of inspiration driving thought. REM Hotrod started this discussion on using REM units The REM Fallback with Sass or LESS i’m currently using EM because of REM support issues. With a fallback , i’ll consider the move forward. Asuh commented yeah, i’ve already decided that XXXXX.com will use …

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