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Responsive design works for websites, why not for digital comic books?
In a keynote speech at the Books in Browsers conference, Pablo Defendini (@pablod), the interactive producer at Open Road Media, discussed responsive comics and the opportunities digital tools afford...
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Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap — cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and “puffiness”. CMU iPad Course — iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming....
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Permission to be horrible and other ways to generate creativity
I met Denise R. Jacobs (@denisejacobs) the old fashioned way, not through Twitter or LinkedIn: a mutual acquaintance introduced us. We corresponded via email and actually got together in person a few...
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Christopher Schmitt and Simon St. Laurent discuss HTML5
Are we entering a new revolution on the web? HTML5 author and conference organizer Christopher Schmitt sat down to talk with O’Reilly editor Simon St. Laurent about why it’s a great time to be a web...
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Velocity Profile: Nicole Sullivan
This is part of the Velocity Profiles series, which highlights the work and knowledge of web ops & performance experts. Nicole Sullivan Architect Stubbornella @stubbornella How did you get into web...
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O'Reilly Radar Show 5/10/12: The surprising rise of JavaScript
Below you’ll find the script and associated links from the May 10, 2012 episode of O’Reilly Radar. An archive of past shows is available through O’Reilly Media’s YouTube channel and you can subscribe...
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The key web technologies that work together for dynamic web sites
The technologies that led to an explosion of interactive websites — PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS — are still as popular today, and a non-programmer can master them quickly. In this interview, Robin...
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Eric Meyer, the author of CSS: The Definitive Guide (and much more) has taught thousands of people CSS through his books, his talks, and his articles. I’ve always enjoyed hearing his take on the state...
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Emerging languages spotlight: Elm
Over the next few months I’ll be taking a look at new and emerging programming languages. The following piece is the first in this series. The Elm Programming Language, created by Evan Czaplicki,...
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toolbar — tooltips in jQuery, cf hint.css which is tooltips in CSS. Security Engineering — 2ed now available online for free. (via /r/netsec) Economics of Netflix’s $100M New Show (The Atlantic) — Up...
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My Little Geek — children’s primer with a geeky bent. A is for Android, B is for Binary, C is for Caffeine …. They have a Kickstarter for two sequels: numbers and shapes. Visible CSS Rules — Enter a...
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Compiling Android from Source (Jethro Carr) — not as easy as you might think. The documentation is minimal, and each device has its own binary blobs of not-open-source crap necessary to make them...
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Responsive design works for websites, why not for digital comic books?
In a keynote speech at the Books in Browsers conference, Pablo Defendini (@pablod), the interactive producer at Open Road Media, discussed responsive comics and the opportunities digital tools afford...
View ArticleIt’s the end of the web as we knew it
For the past 15 years, Google has enforced the classic “HTML as foundation” architecture at the heart of the Web. Content creators and the developers who support them had to present content and link...
View ArticleWhat it really means when people say “Everything in JavaScript is an object”
When you begin programming with JavaScript you might run across books, tutorials, and people who say “Everything in JavaScript is an object.” While it’s not 100% true (not *everything* is an object),...
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It’s time for a web page diet
Earlier this year, I was researching online consumer preferences for a client and discovered, somewhat unsurprisingly, that people expect web sites to be fast and responsive, particularly when they’re...
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Power of the platforms
After decades of work on programming, we finally got a development environment with massive reach and tremendous power. Somehow, though, the web isn’t centered on a comprehensive programming...
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How to build up to good CSS
A long time ago (circa 1999) a creative director tried very hard to convince me how great working in print design was compared to web design. One afternoon before a big event for a Fortune 100...
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Pandora’s box model
This post is part of my personal notes about the benefits currently specified in Shadow DOM, but contentious and held up in committee. We’ll work it out in standards, I’m sure — but given the number of...
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Full-stack tensions on the Web
I expected that CSSDevConf would be primarily a show about front-end work, focused on work in clients and specifically in browsers. I kept running into conversations, though, about the challenges of...
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