Good Looking Data
Important information as great data visualization From Information is Beautiful
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Sunday Mind Munch
had a wonderful time walking around Long beach after an intense time at JSsaturday. Then, later that night, something invaded my dreams. Nothing about the end of a great javascript learning day. Something about “how technical and abstracted this field is becoming, and how tough it is to keep up”. It’s true, it isn’t easy …
Playing with :nth children
Two fun visual playgrounds to help understand the advanced usage of nth-child: http://nthmaster.com/ http://lea.verou.me/demos/nth.html for a great explanation of how it works, start with Chris Coyiers article http://css-tricks.com/how-nth-child-works/. where Chris has his own visual tester linked at the end of the article. But of course, IE is late to the game on this, with no …
2 steps forward, one back
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 …
Responsive Web Design
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 …
Week-ends’ reading
Perhaps you’ve just gotten 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 new online presence. The books pictured are part of the growing library from A …
Minifying Tools
We all know there may be numerous tools for any job. Time permits, perhaps a cursory glance, before going with one tool. In a team environment the decision to go in one direction, with a tool or framework will set the path for years. Recently, i have been reconsidering the process surrounding the gzip, CSS/js …
Wolfram Alpha: next generation browser
watching the Wolfram Alpha screencast. (via @feather)
Great CSS/Javascript reading
http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2009/03/27/reflows-repaints-css-performance-making-your-javascript-slow/ we need more discussions like this