Well, the day has finally come, and thanks to a 5-hour train trip each way for a business trip, I have finally made the time to update both my WordPress Boilerplate Theme & HTML5 Boilerplate Plug-in! The plug-in is already … Continue reading
Category Archives: best practices
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I have long been a fan of the Creative JS community and the progressive work they produce. While most of it is not-yet-ready-for-prime-time, it is great, ground-breaking work. I especially love the interaction of music and visual of Rocking Dendrites! … Continue reading
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Tired of loading/progress bars/circles/stupid-things? Then a loading/progress favicon might be just the thing for you! We’re all building responsive sites now, right? So every time a user rotates their stupid little device, our sites all bounce to the proper width, right? … Continue reading
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I have to admit, I’m a total sucker for numbered-lists-of-shit, but Things I didn’t know about the WebKit inspector? I’m all in! (Okay, well, it obviously was numbered at one point, thus the URL, but I guess that changed at … Continue reading
Responsive Test Environment: Test Multiple Screen-Sizes, in One Browser Window, with One Refresh
So I had a thought on the bus the other day: Wouldn’t it be cool if I could test my responsive websites in multiple screen-sizes, without having to rubber-band my browser width back-and-forth, and back-and–forth, and back-and–forth? If I could … Continue reading
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I created many things out of cardboard when I was a child; it never occurred to me to build a bicycle… I don’t host my own site, so I can’t play with mod_pagespeed myself, and I do not know nearly … Continue reading
The Netbiscuits Tactile Team Blog
Shortly after starting to work for Netbiscuits in March of 2012, I suggested to my team that we start documenting issues, solutions, tips, tricks, etc. that are mobile-related, which inevitably resulted in a WordPress blog: http://tactileteam.wordpress.com/ There will be some … Continue reading
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Wow, check-it out!!! Apparently they’ve finally made a computer that is portable! So, this actually works, and pretty well… You can do one letter at a time, or just keep writing (assuming you don’t run out of screen, but if … Continue reading
How to Do the “Right Thing”
I just read an article from one of my faves, Jeremy Keith, titled How do I convince…?, and I chuckled to myself several times because it is also something I’ve heard many times, something to the effect of “But how … Continue reading
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When I think of all the butts on couches around the world, I think we just found our greatest renewable energy… I cannot wait to start using box-sizing… How did support get so good without me knowing it??? And as … Continue reading