Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category

The Naive Optimist – I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons The ‘startup scene’ has absolutely proliferated my geographic area. I’ve got a bittersweet opinion on it which is nicely outlined in this article. Some of the events that roll through town feel so counterproductive for anybody but the ‘business leads’ trying to make [...]

Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters This thing is definitely bookmark-worthy. Caching is a huge deal wherever you’re working on the stack. Caching on the client side is becoming even more important as we advance in that sector but overall caching is a Really Big Deal. This document outlines caching from top to bottom, [...]

chartsnthings – Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the Facebook I.P.O. I caught wind of this pretty sweet chart outlining how the Facebook IPO correlates with other offerings through history and thought it was really well done. When I stumbled upon this walkthrough of the steps that went into its production I was bowled over. I’m [...]

Destroy Today / 10 reasons why I switched to Spine.js I know, I know, not only a ‘list’ article but also one about switching from one platform to another! I’ve broken two blogging rules at once but I really like how this article came out. The author took an objective stance on his surroundings and [...]

Make a stopwatch using CSS3 without images or javascript. There’s a lot of awesome going on here. Not only is the end product really neat, but you should truly click Play Walkthrough and check that out as well. What a genius idea for a code sample! Spying on the workflow of others is such a [...]

Pinned Pull Requests | Zack’s Blog.. I’m still learning new things about GitHub. They’re bringing on some of the biggest talent in our industry and I truly believe they’re doing too much work for me to keep up with. I’m glad to have caught this note though. As referenced in the article there are certain [...]

SpahQL – A query language for Javascript objects. JSON is arguably one of the best things ever. There’s a bit of a disconnect when it comes to actually working with it though. SpahQL aims to make that a bit easier for us in doing all the heavy lifting for us and providing a wicked nice, [...]

wysihtml5 – A better approach to rich text editing. WYSIWYG is still a topic of conversation, and it’s because of innovation like this. I’m really liking this project at first glance. It’s not so different from your average WYSIWYG editor aside from the fact that it’s likely a fraction of the payload. What I like [...]

Repurposing vs. Optimized Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox). Jakob Nielsen takes some time to analyze the overall benefit of responsive design. I don’t want to spoil the article contents for you but the overarching view is that he feels that ‘mobile’ and ‘desktop’ design issues extend far beyond layout. I know we’re all head-over-heels for responsive [...]

Google Bot now crawls arbitrary Javascript sites. I think we were all confident that the day would come where search engines would in fact browse our AJAXified websites, but it’s nice to see some logged evidence that we’re dealing with it today. I recall the days when it was severely frowned upon when equivalent data [...]