Tag: web development
All the articles with the tag "web development".
Link post: ReliCSS: The Front-End Archaeologist’s Tool
ReliCSS helps front-end developers inspect legacy stylesheets and navigate old CSS.
Photo post: Pride Versioning
Replace semantic versioning with proud, default, and shame releases.
Quote post: Automating a Ten-Second Task
Douglas Adams on the joy of spending all day automating something that takes ten seconds by hand.
Link post: Sass Style Guide
With more people than ever writing Sass, it bears some consideration how we format it. CSS style guides are common, so perhaps we can extend those to cover choices unique to Sass.
Link post: WordPress Best Practices
A community-maintained reference that collected practical conventions for writing, organizing, securing, and deploying WordPress projects.
Link post: A Perfect WordPress Theme Part 1: Bloated is Bad
A theme that registers shortcodes and custom post types, handles SEO and analytics, and does everything else is not a perfect WordPress theme. It is a bloated one at best.
Photo post: Being a Web Developer
Being a web developer… Is as awesome as Chewbacca riding a squirrel, fighting Nazis with a cross bow.
Link post: Mixture: A New Tool for Front-End Developers
Mike Kus introduces Mixture, a local front-end development environment with live updates, dynamic templates, preprocessors, shared projects, and no server setup.
Link post: Integrating File Inputs with the Filesystem API
Eric Bidelman demonstrates how selected files can be handed to the browser’s former Filesystem API for local copying and manipulation.
Link post: Musings on Preprocessing
I’ve been using Sass for pretty much everything I do recently. Here are some musings on the journey, from hold-ups and trip-ups to turn-offs.
Link post: The Open Web Needs You Now
Daniel Glazman argues that web authors should test emerging standards, report implementation problems, and participate before browser behavior becomes entrenched.
Link post: A Small but Important Change to Linear Gradients
A note on the CSS linear-gradient syntax change that made direction explicit with “to” keywords and aligned angles with the rest of CSS.
Link post: jribbble, a jQuery plugin for the Dribbble API
A JavaScript library for the Dribbble API.
Link post: jQuery Mobile 1.0 RC1
The jQuery Mobile team details its first 1.0 release candidate, including performance work, platform support, and changes made before the final release.
Photo post: Dribbble: WestMill Capital “Continue Reading” button, hover state
The hover state for a "Continue Reading" button, from a WestMill Capital web design project shared on Dribbble.