The last days i spent a lot of time reading about and getting my head around SVG, which can be kind of complex and sometimes confusing if you’re just starting out. This talk by Sara Soueidan at Beyond Tellerrand helped me a lot to understand some of the basic concepts behind SVG.
Some good advices on writing Professional JavaScript Code by Cory House.
Some very interesting insights on what goes into building a huge CSS Framework for an Enterprise Solution like Salesforce.
At Salesforce UX, we are guided by four design principles. In order of importance, they are — clarity, efficiency, consistency, and beauty . These principles assisted us in prioritizing competing goals and helped us make tough calls.
I’d like to share some of the decisions we made while architecting the framework. Some of these choices may be unexpected. And there have been times when our ideas have morphed while building, as we discovered yet another platform or situation we needed to solve for.
Worth a read!
Pssst… https://t.co/hLS6A2rfgj
— picu (@picu_io) September 1, 2015
Since yesterday you can download picu from WordPress.org as a Public Beta. We hope to gather as much feedback as we can from an even broader range of photographers.
Download it, test it, rip it apart, review it, send us your inputs. But please don’t forget that picu is in “public beta” and just learned to walk, so please be kind to it :)
A crazy experiment that generates a particle field using WebGL which reacts in real-time to your webcam.
Baymard conducts original large-scale research studies on e-commerce usability.
The research is published in articles, reports, and benchmark databases. Topics include e-commerce search, homepage and navigation design, the checkout process, and mobile sites.
If you are looking for extensive research on E-Commerce Usability, look no further. The full guidelines are priced at $150 each but there’s also a lot of articles for free.
Handpicked code snippets you can use in your web projects. Find web design inspiration with code samples.
A nice collection of Tutorials and Code Snippets from all around the web.
Even if 18 months from now, one set date is the only way to disentangle the dependencies and upgrade the whole ecosystem at once.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) July 12, 2015
Yes please!
The Verge: Facebook’s new chief security officer wants to set a date to kill Flash
When we went to Hungary during the Christmas period last year I bought a 1GB data plan on a prepaid card. However, soon after I went online with my laptop the entire data allowance was used up. Strangely, I wasn’t able to add another data package. Instead, T-Mobile limited my internet access to 32kbps till the end of the month.
Since there was no easy way to fix it and I had nothing critical to do I decided to embrace the situation as an opportunity to understand how it feels to be on a slow network most of the time. I had already started reading the book Responsible Responsive Design at that time anyway so I was curious.
To be on a slow connection for a longer period of time can really be an eye opening thing if you work on the web. As Gabor mentions in his post it’s not only that pages load slowly, but some just won’t load at all.
I experienced the exact same thing in the last weeks when we were on vacation in Spain after WordCamp Europe. I had a 200 MB mobile data package, and at our AirBnB apartment we had a very slow WiFi. So i had to choose between a moody and sluggish WiFi or the tiny bit faster but crazy expensive mobile connection.
It was frustrating, to say the least. But if you work on the web, you should force yourself into this situation while developing. Gabor recommends to turn on device mode in Chrome and simulate a slow connection right from the beginning, because as he puts it:
I need to feel the pain as soon as possible so that I immediately notice the changes that are bad for performance.
This should be an exercise we should do on a regular basis and – even better – we should integrate them into our project workflows. Imagine if everyone involved, from your client, project manager, boss to the content creators would have experienced a few weeks of bad connection first hand.
I’m sure performance wouldn’t be an afterthought anymore.
Three takeaways for web developers after two weeks of painfully slow internet
If you’re building things with WordPress, it’s important to deliver quality code. Especially if it’s going to be released to the public or used by a client. There’s a good post on the WPMUDEV Blog covering many aspects from HTML/CSS, JavaScript or PHP to the WordPress Coding Standards or Accessibility.
It’s a great starting point if you are unsure how to improve your code but also a good reminder for experienced developers.
Stop Cowboy Coding: 10 Tips for Improving the Quality of Your WordPress Themes and Plugins