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Article Roundup for 12.19.2014

  1. 19 exceptionally well designed mobile app experiences
  2. WordPress 4.1, “Dinah”
    Ready to download!
  3. WordPress is an army
  4. Dreamweaver CC: The Web Development Tool That Opens PSDs?
  5. Managing CSS Stacking Contexts in a “Hostile” Environment
  6. No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Integration with WordPress
  7. Sass for Big Sites, Part 1
  8. SMACSS-Press
  9. The UX of Error Messages
  10. A Holiday Wish
  11. The Top 50 Code Posts of 2014
  12. The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang
    Pretty funny.
  13. Learn Regular Expressions in 20 Minutes
    RegEx’s can be really daunting at first. They appear to be unreadable strings, but once you get the idea, they aren’t so bad.
  14. Filling Out and Signing Forms With Preview on OSX
    This is something I use all of the time to sign and fill out PDFs. No need to buy any extra software.
  15. Our favorite third-party email app for OS X
    I love this app. Changed the way I use email.
  16. Researching the Performance costs of JavaScript MVC Frameworks
  17. Support the old, optimise for the new
    I like this idea. I’d be curious how well the polyfills work in the older browsers. Has to be better than zero polyfill, right?
  18. Know thy reference
    Don’t quite get "this" in javascript?
  19. Why You Should Avoid Sass @extend
    Just one man’s opinion. I’m not sure I’m completely sold on this, but he brings up some good points.
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Article Roundup for 12.12.2014

  1. Is Agile Harder for Agencies? ◆ 24 ways
  2. Do you know where your Apple ID recovery key is? ↦
    PSA: If you have 2 factor on in iCloud, make sure you have a key. If you don’t and you forget your password you are not getting back into your account ever again.
  3. Tuning WordPress to Handle High Amounts of Traffic
  4. Images Are King: An Image Optimization Checklist for Everyone in Your Organization
  5. Accelerate your front-end website development with Harp
    …interesting
  6. Announcing the redesigned F12 developer tools interface
  7. SSL Performance Diary #4: Optimizing the TLS Handshake
  8. Stylesheet Download Tests
    wah wah
  9. Getting Started With WordPress Plugin Development
  10. Grunt And Gulp Tasks For Performance Optimization | Yeoman
  11. Sorting Tables with Tablesorter
  12. Watch President Obama write his first line of code
    JavaScript, specificially.
  13. Dialog Effects
  14. Flexbox Cross-Browser Inconsistencies
    We are all very excited to start using flexbox, but let’s know the pitfalls first.
  15. SamHerbert/SVG-Loaders
    Finally, something that’s better than animated gif loaders (which you can’t use PNG24-like transparency on).
  16. Google Santa Tracker
    So cool.
  17. Everybody Scrolls.
    “But… but… but… The Fold!!!!”
  18. Enhancing User Experience With The Web Speech API – Smashing Magazine
  19. Google Online Security Blog: Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”
    Anything that improves upon Captcha is a win in my book. A wise person once said “reducing spam on your site is not your user’s problem, so don’t inconvenience them.” -unknown
  20. How to optimize your website for speed, and why you still should
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Article Roundup for 12.05.2014

  1. Fliqlo – Flip Clock Screensaver
    pretty cool screensaver for both osx and win.
  2. Zuckerberg rejects Tim Cook’s notion that turning people into products is bad
  3. HTTP 2.0 is coming, be ready
    This is something that could really help a lot of pain points for front-end developers. It could eliminate “optimizations” such as concatenation, and image sprites. Essentially, anything related to reducing server requests. This is still IE11+, but it’s unclear to me if it degrades gracefully. If it does, we could use it sooner rather than later.
  4. What Is Vagrant and Why Should I Care? ◆ 24 ways
    Best way to do local development.
  5. What’s new and exciting in WordPress 4.1
  6. Bursting our Bubble: Mobile Performance Outside the First World
  7. Google’s Inbox team promises cross-browser support and a host of other features soon
    The “works in Chrome” thing gave us nightmares back to “optimized for IE”. Sounds like they are working on other browsers.
  8. WhatFont iOS 8 Extension Identifies Fonts in Safari
  9. Page bloat update: The average top 1000 web page is 1795 KB in size
  10. Clipping and Masking in CSS
  11. New Course: Better Web Apps With AngularUI
  12. Is The Grid a better web designer than you?
  13. Dealing with Emergencies in Git ◆ 24 ways
  14. Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On F12 Developer Tools
  15. When to use @⁠extend; when to use a mixin – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts
  16. Using Chassis for WordPress Development
  17. Google is killing CAPTCHA as we know it
  18. Focusing on a Team Workflow With Git
  19. Understanding CSS Stats: How to Make the Most of the Numbers
  20. COMIC: How Browsers Market Themselves
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Article Roundup for 11.07.2014

  1. Just what is it that you want to do?
    Jeremy Keith talks progressive enhancement and the difference between an enhancement and a functionality.
  2. What Android 5’s Updating WebView Means for Mobile Apps -Telerik Developer Network
    The faster Android drops “Android Browser”, the better. This is a step in that direction.
  3. jQuery 3.0: The Next Generations
    More info on the next version of jQuery.
  4. HTML5 Specs Finalized, HTML 5.1 & HTML 5.2 Already In Development
  5. 12 Essential Responsive Design Tools
  6. Unusual tricks via Array .some()
  7. An Ansible Tutorial | Servers for Hackers
  8. Windows 10 Includes a Linux-Style Package Manager Named “OneGet”
  9. 5 Easy Ways to Get Started with PHP on Vagrant
    My new favorite tool for local development.
  10. Datalists for Different Input Types
  11. Designing for Large Screen Smartphones
    It’s too bad that it took the iPhone 6/6+ to get is talking about big phone UX.
  12. Using Object-Oriented CSS with Sass
  13. It’s a mobile-first world. Is your website fast enough for mobile shoppers? [INFOGRAPHIC] – Web Performance Today
  14. Let’s Talk About It
    Mental heath is very important.
  15. Creating a ‘Hello World’ App with Swift
  16. A First Look at Google Inbox
  17. Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts
  18. Playing Nice in the Inbox
    HTML email is no fun.
  19. Web design trends for 2015 that will change your job forever
    Hard pill to swallow. Paul Boag has been around for a while and I trust his opinions. Let’s just hope he’s not 100% correct.
  20. Windows 10 touch features available to test in next few months
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Article Roundup for 10.30.2014

  1. 12 Essential Responsive Design Tools
  2. HTML5 Specs Finalized, HTML 5.1 & HTML 5.2 Already In Development
  3. Unusual tricks via Array .some()
  4. Datalists for Different Input Types
  5. 5 Easy Ways to Get Started with PHP on Vagrant
    My new favorite tool for local development.
  6. Windows 10 Includes a Linux-Style Package Manager Named “OneGet”
  7. Using Object-Oriented CSS with Sass
  8. Designing for Large Screen Smartphones
    It’s too bad that it took the iPhone 6/6+ to get is talking about big phone UX.
  9. It’s a mobile-first world. Is your website fast enough for mobile shoppers? [INFOGRAPHIC] – Web Performance Today
  10. Let’s Talk About It
    Mental heath is very important.
  11. Creating a ‘Hello World’ App with Swift
  12. Playing Nice in the Inbox
    HTML email is no fun.
  13. Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts
  14. A First Look at Google Inbox
  15. Web design trends for 2015 that will change your job forever
    Hard pill to swallow. Paul Boag has been around for a while and I trust his opinions. Let’s just hope he’s not 100% correct.
  16. Windows 10 touch features available to test in next few months
  17. How To Run A Content-Planning Workshop
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