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Article Roundup for 4.29.13

  1. WebP with Fallback
  2. The CSS-Tricks License
    Well put, Chris.
  3. One Less JPG
    Ok, you put me in my place. 🙂
  4. MYTH: Screen readers don’t use JavaScript
    BUSTED!
  5. substack in cyberspace
    I was always scared to move off jQuery because I didn’t know how to traverse the DOM in vanilla JS. This answers a lot of those questions.
  6. Twitter To Halt Internet Explorer 6 & 7 Support
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Article Roundup for 4.19.13

  1. Inspirational Podcasts: Listen, Watch And Share!
    There are some fantastic ones in here. Also some questionable ones. Like yayQuery. Pretty sure they haven’t done an episode in a few years.
  2. Responsive Multi-Level Menu
    Nice design pattern
  3. shame.css – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts
    I like this idea. Then you can revisit the hack code later down the road.
  4. WP Migrate DB Pro
    OMG can’t wait to try this!
  5. Tip: Save Money On Airline Tickets
    #offtopic
  6. The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO by Yoast: Configuration
  7. Overview And Examples: How To Benefit From CSS Generated Content And Counters
    Generated content has saved me from cutting so many images since dropping IE7 support.
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Article Roundup for 4.12.13

  1. Two Tools to Keep Your CSS Clean
    These both seem like great tools.
  2. The vanilla web diet – keynote at Anglebrackets in Las Vegas | Christian Heilmann
    Another great conference talk on performance.
  3. Why You Scared of Sass?
    SASS is the beat thing that’s happened to my css since… well ever.
  4. Responsive Nav · Advanced Left Navigation Demo
  5. Moving A WordPress Website Without Hassle
    I would like to see this process get easier by WordPress But for now, this article explains it pretty well.
  6. Death To Bullsh** at Creative Mornings
    Brad never disappoints. This is a great talk about the stupid stuff we put on our websites. Warning: He does use a certain swear word over and over again (in a thoughtful way, I think).
  7. 5 Things to Consider When Finishing a Site
  8. Seven Idiotic Rules for Managing Creative People
    Some great points to the moronic article by Harvard Business Review.
  9. HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1
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Article Roundup for 04.4.13

  1. Create a custom map using Google Maps Engine Lite
    Wait, you mean the average person couldn’t figure out the Google Maps API? #sarcasm
  2. A Pen by Anand
    Pretty impressive stuff.
  3. Must-have OS X apps for designers and developers – Sicanstudios
    There were a few in here that seemed really useful.
  4. High-Speed Coding: Goodbye, Zen Coding. Hello, Emmet!
    Once you get acustomed to Emmet, you wonder how you ever wrote html/css without it.
  5. Line Number Mapping for Sass in Chrom Dev Tools
  6. Single Element Pure CSS MacBook Pro – CodePen
    Not exactly sure why you’d want to do this, but props to the guy that got this to work.
  7. Disruptions: F.A.A. May Loosen Curbs on Fliers’ Use of Electronics – NYTimes.com
    This was way overdue IMO.
  8. The 11 Phases of a Web Developer’s Career (As Illustrated by Memes)
    Also has some great animated GIFs
  9. Tool or Die, A Web Developer’s Workflow
  10. Bricss – Forget loading spinners, use a wait cursor
    This idea could be combined with things like overlays and loading spinners.
  11. Responsively Retrofitting An Existing Site With RWD Retrofit
    Often overlooked solution for making a site responsive.
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Article Roundup for 03.15.13

  1. Phil Hawksworth | I can smell your CMS | Fronteers 2012 on Vimeo
    He points out some of the negatives of CMS’s.
  2. Immersive Internet Explorer 10 Now Runs Flash By Default
    MS had to cave unlike Apple.
  3. Adobe Closes BrowserLab, Blames Mobile Platform Rise
    BrowserStack wins!
  4. Breaking Down The New York Times Redesign – The Industry
  5. Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly
    So Google Reader shuts down July 1st. Looks like this is the first of many alternatives.
  6. Beware the free, invisible service » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks
    Good insight on our dependancy on free apps.
  7. How to lose weight (in the browser)
    There are lots of things in here I didn’t know about performance. Well worth the time to read.
  8. Modular CSS with Media Queries and Sass
    This is a great approach to writing media queries. Keeps like code in the same area of your stylesheet.
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