Category: Links of Interest

1. Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown – Ben Kamens
   I think I’m going to be adding this to my drop menus.
2. The Command Line is Your Best Friend
3. Windows 7 (finally) gets Internet Explorer 10
   Another IE! One step closer to using FlexBox! Look it up if you don’t know what it is. It’s amazing!

1. Learning How to Program to Become a Better Designer
2. SwipeOut: Swipe-to-delete goodness for the mobile web
   Cool little javascript plugin
3. Font Sizing with REM
   You could write a quick mixin to do this so your authored css is in px, but they are converted to rems (relative ems).
4. Keep it short.
   huh…
5. Why All Browsers Should Move to WebKit
   more #hotdrama
6. Speed geek’s guide to Facebook buttons
   I hate how these social widgets are such preformance hogs. This shows some ways to make them faster.
7. Stop Working More than 40 Hours a Week
   interesting…
8. Obama endorses required high school coding classes
   I like it!
9. I want a website like Amazon for $1000
   lols
10. CSSmarkupwand
    select layer in your uploaded PSD; Gives you the css for it.
11. Group Advice: Working on an Anti-RWD Team
    I’m glad I don’t have this problem. I don’t know how I would handle it.
12. How the Heck Do I Use GitHub?
    A good intro to using GitHub.
13. Opera browser switching to WebKit & V8
    Wow! This is a pretty big deal. What it means for developers is that they have one less rendering engine to worry about (soon to be Gecko, IE and WebKit). But let’s be honest, web developers never checked their sites in Opera anyway. 🙂
14. Git Tips From the Pros
15. Where to Start
    Trent Walton talks process

1. Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs
   Mac Web Devs have been waiting for this for a long time.
2. Using the <main> element
3. Simple Popup Gallery without jquery plugin
   After reading this, I’ve come to realize a lot of jQuery plugins can be overthought.

1. Internet Explorer Market Share vs. Homicides Rate (Picture)
   lol
2. Defeating Busy – Cognition: The blog of web design & development firm Happy Cog
3. Be Guilt Free
4. You can’t create a button
   Some good stuff on button html symantics
5. Credit Card Info in One Field
6. Apple finally abandons its sad claim to the ‘Multi-Touch’ trademark
   Finally!
7. Sublime Text 3 Beta Released
   My favorite text editor has a new beta!
8. Man uses GitHub as a bug tracker for his house
   Ha!
9. 1 in 7 cab drivers has a bachelor’s degree
   I’m seeing more and more articles on college educations.
10. Teamwork Gantt
11. Drive-by criticism must die
12. caniuse.com redesign – feedback wanted
13. Original Mac Lego Model

After going from Dreamweaver to Coda, I finally settled on Sublime Text 2 as my text editor. The developer has just released a beta version for all current ST2 license holders. Check out Jeffrey Way’s screencast showing off some of the new features.