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Article Roundup for 09.27.2013

  1. Responsive Image Container: A Way Forward For Responsive Images?
    mobile
  2. Alfred Developer Workflows in OSX
    Some really great workflows in here for those that use Alfred on OSX.
  3. Top 9 US News Sites Race for Fastest Site
  4. Dear Web Font Providers
  5. What fold?
    Ah the “fold”. With different screen/window sizes, and especially now with responsive design, the “fold” is in fact still not a thing.
  6. WordPress Inline Access Concept by Mark Root-Wiley, MRW Web Design
    This is a great concept! It would help editors connect areas of the site to it’s corresponding admin page/section.
  7. Introducing BrowserSwarm – Less time testing, more innovation on the Web.
  8. Photoshop Extension: BlendMe.in: Accessing Font Icons Without Leaving Photoshop
    As we start using icon fonts more and more, this can help our Photoshop workflow.
  9. Designing for iOS7: Perils & Pluses
  10. Powerful WordPress Tips And Tricks
    Wow! A must-read for WordPress Devs. Lots of great tricks in here.
  11. 7 things about working in I.T. you don’t learn in school
    You can replace “IT” with “the Web” in this title for our purposes.
  12. IE11 Changes
    Whats new in the forthcoming IE11
  13. rainyday.js
    Not much practicality, but cool effect
  14. element: Modals made easy – HTML5Rocks Updates
    modal windows are a pain to build in html/css/js. It will be interesting to see how customized you can get the styling. Nevertheless, this will be a welcomed addition to html5. In the mean time, there is a polyfill if you want to start using it today
  15. Samsung’s 38 million Galaxy Note sales show that large phones are here to stay
    It looks like Phablets are here to stay.
  16. Fancy Node.js-based blogging app Ghost goes live to backers | Ars Technica
    We all love WordPress for it’s CMS, but let’s not kid ourselves, WordPress as just a blogging platform can get kinda bloated. This app brings things back to the basics.
  17. WordPress › Automatic Core Updates, an update « Make WordPress Core
    Have been waiting for this forEVER! Let’s hope its reliable.
  18. LukeW | Data Monday: iOS7 Adoption Rates
    I was really surprised how many of my non-tech friends of Facebook were excited for iOS7. I thought normal people didn’t care about this stuff. 🙂
  19. A Five-Step Process For Conducting User Research
  20. So, You’re a Web Designer, Right?
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Article Roundup for 09.20.2013

  1. Speech Synthesis: Web Speech API, part one – Broken Links
    Check out the demo in Safari in iOS7 or Safari in OSX.
  2. Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview Now Available for Windows 7 Customers
    Great news for web developers. To give some perspective, at one point, we weren’t sure if IE10 was going to be on Windows 7 at all.
  3. Good Content Is Too Valuable To Die
  4. Mobile Design Details: Avoid The Spinner
    Spinners draw attention to the fact that you are waiting.
  5. The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7
  6. Creative Loading Effects
    A lot of these are much better than an animated gif.
  7. Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs | Breaking the Mobile Web
    What’s changed in iOS from a web developer’s standpoint.
  8. and iOS’ numeric keypad – Blog – Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
    Trying to get a number pad on an iOS device? There’s a trick.
  9. Speaking Tips
  10. modern.ie
    You can now run their validator to see find common coding issues.
  11. Setting up Sublime Text for Python development – dbader.org
    For all you Pythonistas out there…
  12. Create a Windows 8.1 tile for your site
    Making Win8 icons for your site is pretty easy to do.
  13. Quality Wallpapers for Mobiles and Tablets – Mobiles Wall
  14. Collective #81
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Article Roundup for 09.16.2013

  1. explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text
    It looks like this does a little more than command help does.
  2. Create an Instant Web Server via Terminal Command Line
  3. Internet Explorer 11 To Load JPG Images Up To 45% Faster
  4. How to ship good design — Medium
  5. PageSpeed Insights
    How does your site score for page speed? This site gives scores on mobile and desktop.
  6. how to blog about code and give zero Bleeps
    Can apply to other parts of the web, not just developers. Write about what you are doing!
  7. Photoshop CC update brings open source ‘Adobe Generator’ tool for real-time image asset generation | 9to5Mac
    Really great feature for developers/designers slicing up PSD’s! BTW, only available in Adobe Creative Cloud.
  8. On Creative Leadership
  9. The Parallels Between Personal Health and Website Health
    Great analogy, Chris!
  10. Safari Push Notifications – Apple Developer
    With the next release of OSX, you can do push notifications from your website through Notification Center. Too bad that user needs to be running a Mac and Safari. Kind of a small niche.
  11. https://www.justareflektor.com/
    Another cool interactive music video from Arcade Fire.
  12. Responsive Navigation On Complex Websites
  13. WordPress 3.6.1 Maintenance and Security Release
    We finally got the bug-squishing .1 release of 3.6. Looks like there are some security things in there too, so update ASAP, kids!
  14. Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue
  15. Sustainable Value in WordPress Products | @thetorquemag
    This could be applied to any product, not just WordPress. A good read on Product Value.
  16. Starting to Write CSS
    This does a good job of summing up what css should look like today.
  17. Progressive Enhancement Is Faster
    TLDR “I’m open to examples to the contrary, but I don’t think a JS-rendered page can beat a progressively enhanced page to rendering core content”
  18. ChocolateChip-UI
    Native look for web apps
  19. Flat And Thin Are In
    It’s crazy how fast these design trends grow.
  20. Designing For Emotion With Hover Effects | Smashing Coding
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Article Roundup for 08.02.2013

  1. Techniques for mobile and responsive cross-browser testing: An Envato case study. – We build Envato
  2. WordPress › WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”
    Next major version is out! BTW, did you know they plan on 4.0 being auto-updating?
  3. Responsive Web Design Performance
  4. 7 Useful SublimeText Plugins for Web Development | Coders Grid
  5. Google Launches New Ad Unit For Responsive Sites | TechCrunch
    This took way too long to get here.
  6. State of the Union: Page Speed & Web Performance [INFOGRAPHIC]
  7. Google Nexus Website Menu | Codrops
    Really cool design pattern.
  8. LukeW | Mobile Design Details: Performing Actions Optimistically
  9. Debugging and Tuning Web Sites and Apps with F12 Developer Tools in IE11
    Wow! IE dev tools have greatly improved in IE11
  10. Awesome CSS libraries, boilerplates and frameworks | CatsWhoCode.com
  11. Google Chromecast | WeedyGarden
    Responsive web design isn’t just for mobile. Have to check out TV’s too. And wait until Apple comes out with their TV.
  12. Collective #74 | Codrops
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Article Roundup for 07.26.2013

  1. The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS | Christian Heilmann
  2. Mobile Web Problems and How to Avoid Them
  3. Why Web Performance is More Important For Mobile | Zoompf
    mobile
  4. How to Create Super Cool WordPress Category Pages – WPMU.org
    Yeah, my category pages DO suck! 🙂
  5. Website Deployment: Let Us Count The Ways! | CSS-Tricks
    I’m using the Git post-receive hook method. It’s a good free option but takes a little bit of setup.
  6. Samsung ships twice as many smartphones as Apple, but smaller brands chipping away at lead: IDC | The Verge
  7. Sneak peek of Macaw – The code-savvy web design tool
    Ya know that holy grail wysiwyg html/css editor? This could be it. Very impressed so far!
  8. Windows 7: Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview Released
    Good on Microsoft for cranking these releases out. Now if we could just get XP users off of IE8 somehow.
  9. Following Through with Post-Launch Strategy · An A List Apart Article
  10. csswizardry/CSS-Guidelines
  11. GitHub’s on your phone
  12. normalize.css in scss
    …and you can install via bower.
  13. Looking Into the Future of Sass
    What we can expect in the new version of sass.
  14. LukeW | Breaking Development: Is Flexbox the Future of Layout?
    An interesting take on flexbox.
  15. Egghead.io – Free AngularJS Course
  16. Quick Bits: What’s new for Web Devs in Safari 6.1 and 7? | Web Directions
  17. Colliding Particles in Canvas – CodePen
  18. Troubleshooting CSS | Codrops
    I like his solutions on the display: inline-block spacing bug.
  19. Blueprint: On Scroll Effect Layout | Codrops
  20. How Web Tech Concerns Change | CSS-Tricks
    Gives you an idea of where you are at in each respective language that Chris looks at.
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