Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Caret Navigation in Web Applications. This is an insanely detailed walkthrough surrounding a troublesome issue with caret navigation in textareas. Not only is the walkthrough fantastic, I love the way the author took the time to call out exactly what we’re thinking as we’re reading. There are a few times I caught myself asking a [...]

Modern Web Development. This is an amazing walkthrough of the Web Inspector available in Google Chrome Canary. That’s about all I can say about it beyond suggesting you check it out and make sure you’re taking advantage of all the greatness. The one difference in opinion I do have is the preference for a vertical [...]

I continue to further utilize WordPress as a project framework with every project. I recently implemented a walled garden of content that contained a downloads section that got me thinking about how I could up the ante a bit and make those downloads semi-protected without becoming too invasive.

Evolution of a Web Developer: From PHP Newbie To Python Ninja. An entertaining, quick, little read. I always find it hilarious to talk to peers and discuss how we ended up where we did today. 90% of them, like me, started programming with AOL ‘add-ons’ also known as chat room flooders, punters, and other silly [...]

Demonstrating Responsive Design. Responsive design has, I think, moved beyond some sort of niche novelty buzzword. I think it’s had a great effect on Web design in general and given all of us even more to think about regarding the future and what that means for our profession. Responsive design means more work though, there’s [...]

A Baseline for Front-End Developers – Adventures in JavaScript Development. This is full of great. Front end development has matured extensively over the past few years, and rightfully so. The space itself is finally starting to come around to being a legit environment we can work in, as opposed to a world without consistency or [...]

You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors. This isn’t something I’ve really thought much about implementing but makes a lot of sense. With so much being offloaded to the client side, there’s an increased potential for errors. We’ve got our test driven development and do what we can to write bug-free code, but as things continue [...]

Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap. The Bootstrap innovations keep rolling in. This time in the form of easy extension. There are a few neat things to check out here, especially the Themes. It shows the extensive effect a few style changes can have on a design. There are a number of Themes to check out, each [...]

MacRabbit – Layer Cake – Magic with PSDs. This, for me, is one of those “I can’t believe it went until 2012 without this existing” stories. Layer Cake is the latest application from MacRabbit, the shop famous for Espresso and CSSEdit before that. When building out the front end, you may be all too familiar [...]

Rainbow – Javascript Code Syntax Highlighting. I’ve seen the question asked time and time again: what’s a good syntax highlighter for my site? It’s not the most elegant project which is why I assume many are so very dated. The highlighter I used to use on Monday By Noon hasn’t been updated since I started [...]