Open by Default – Brad Frost at TEDxGrandviewAve
January 7, 2015I like TED Talks. And i liked this one in particular. You should watch it, too.
Creative exhaust, the power of being open by default: Brad Frost at TEDxGrandviewAve
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
January 6, 2015
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst is one of those books that sits on my “to-read” list for far too long. Many people have praised this book as the “bible of typography” and i heard the phrase “if there’s one book about typography you read, make it this” more than few times.
Richard Rutter took the time to take it to the next level and apply the Elements of Typographic Style to the Web. I only skimmed through some of the chapters and have already learned a thing or two. Definitely something to bookmark.
An Introduction to Backbone.js
January 2, 2015After several not so successful attempts to understand Backbone.js by just staring at the code in WordPress Core that makes up the Media Uploader, i decided it is time to jump in and learn some more about it from scratch. It’s pretty overwhelming at first, especially if your JavaScript knowledge is only basic, which is one thing i’d like to change this year.
I might share some of the best tutorials and introductions i found useful along my way in a later post, but for now here’s a good short video introduction to the basics of Backbone.js by Sidney Maestre that i just found:
Responsive Email Patterns
August 16, 2014
Coding HTML Newsletters can be a painful thing. Especially if you want them to be responsive and work across most email clients. Luckily there’s this site called Responsive Email Patterns, which collects snippets and modules you can use in your next project.
A Real Time, Open Data powered Traffic Map
June 23, 2014Watch real-time traffic in your city, beautifully visualized. It’s just amazing to see what’s possible with a bunch of open data feeds.
webdesignrepo
April 1, 2014webdesignrepo is a curated collection of helpful links from around the web. Primarily the repo is for webdesign links, but there is a large overlap with web development and graphic design.
Huge collection of all kinds of links related to webdesign, sorted in “Daily Visits, Blogs/News, Inspiration, Learning, Tutorials, Snippets, Plugins, Architecture, Tools, Resources and Community”. Definitely something to bookmark!
Am I Responsive?
January 17, 2014A pretty nice tool that let’s you enter a URL and then displays the page rendered on different viewports.
URL Rewriting for Beginners
January 2, 2014URL rewriting can be one of the best and quickest ways to improve the usability and search friendliness of your site. It can also be the source of near-unending misery and suffering. Definitely worth playing carefully with it – lots of testing is recommended. With great power comes great responsibility, and all that.
A beginner’s guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples
Headroom.js
December 26, 2013This neat little JS plugin let you hide your header by reacting to the user scrolling up and down, kinda like we all are familiar from the facebook app.
Convert Apache Configuration to nginx
December 25, 2013This comes in handy if you want to migrate from Apache to nginx and have some custom .htaccess Instructions you want to take to the new environment.
First of all, the service was thought as a mod_rewrite to nginx converter. However, it allows you to convert some other instructions that have reason to be ported from Apache to nginx.