HTML5Pattern – A list of patterns that can be applied to many common form inputs To celebrate the 12th birthday of metafilter @mathowie bought the domain of the first site ever submitted: cat-scan.com Very long but good article about keyword research 6 Essential PPC Landing Page Optimizations Lessons From A Rewrite by Rebecca Murphey. I’m always impressed […]
The other day I ran across some very old code and decided to push it up to the interwebs. It’s a game I wrote when I was first learning jquery. That said, I wouldn’t recommend using the code to learn jquery best practices. It works though! Check it out: Wrong to Right – A Word […]
I was poking around on my desktop tonight because, let’s be honest, there’s nothing quite like a thursday night spent playing with .oh-my-zsh. Quick Aside: I just noticed that in looking for the most “canonical” link to use for .oh-my-zsh in the previous paragraph I googled it and saw a few possibilities in the first […]
Sometimes it’s good to just hack. Don’t worry about scalability or maintainability, don’t sweat coding standards, ignore DRY but mutter YAGNI as often as possible – just duct tape things together as you think of them. It’s like sketching, but instead of a pencil you have a text editor. You pop around the control flow […]
When your livelihood depends on what you can do with your brain, fighting depression and the fatigued fog that swirls around it is a frightening battle. I read a post written by Noah Kagan of appSumo.com tonight in which he honestly and plainly described what that fight is like from the inside. He also shares […]
I was looking at this Chrome Dev Tools Cheatsheet that was put together by Boris Smus and Paul Irish when something caught my eye: I was instantly excited. This is a feature I’ve always wished for but couldn’t find in firebug – saving your changes while messing with things in the dev tools. I’ve always found […]
Adding HTML5 Geolocation to your web applications One of the interesting and useful addition to the HTML5 specification is the Geolocation API. The Geolocation API allows users to share their location with web applications so that they can enjoy the benefits of various location-aware services. Geolocation enables you as a developer or website owner to […]
In The 7 Kinds of Software Developer Wushu , Bob Warfield seven types of software developers and how they contribute to successful products. All of us are a mix of different skills, opinions and passions. Comparing yourself, either positively or negatively, to other developers is inevitable but not always helpful. I’ve often found myself discouraged […]
I found myself inadvertently mousing over to the red swoop in this ad every time I saw it today. I realized that my brain was catching the bit of red in the thin band of blue with white letters and impulsively moving the mouse over to click it. I don’t know if the designer of […]
I just read an interesting tutorial over at David Walsh’s blog about Facebook Open Graph Meta tags. In it he discusses how to use custom meta tags to tell facebook what image and text to use when someone "likes" your page.