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The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript

Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking that...

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Writing Testable JavaScript

We’ve all been there: that bit of JavaScript functionality that started out as just a handful of lines grows to a dozen, then two dozen, then more. Along the way, a function picks up a few more...

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This week's sponsor: Igloo Software

If SharePoint and Facebook had a baby, it would look a lot like Igloo (without the recessive balding or oversharing tendencies). Hosted, managed and with a major release every 90 days, Igloo is a...

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Matt Mullenweg on Yahoo-Tumblr

» Matt Mullenweg on Yahoo-Tumblr “We’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain.”–Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.

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MapBox Develops an Open Source Vector Format for Maps

» MapBox Develops an Open Source Vector Format for Maps MapBox's new vector-based map tiles are more stable, more scalable, and customizable to an amazing degree.

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This week's sponsor: Typekit

Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of web fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally...

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Paul Irish on Chrome Moving to Blink

I know you’ve been asked this plenty of times already, but: no new vendor prefixes, right? Right? Nope, none! They’re great in theory but turns out they fail in practice, so we’re joining Mozilla...

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W3C to Publish Encrypted Media Extensions Specification

» W3C to Publish Encrypted Media Extensions Specification The W3C announced today that it intends to publish the controversial Encrypted Media Extensions extension specification despite highly...

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Research Tips For Designers and Developers

» Research Tips For Designers and Developers How is the waterfall web design process like the childhood game of "Telephone," and how can we fix it? Bringing designers and developers into the...

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Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: You Can’t Do Everything

In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server,...

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Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier

Ilya Grigorik discusses in detail how to construct a mobile website that loads as quickly as possible. A site that not only renders in 1 second, but one that is also visible in 1 second. With hard...

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This week's sponsor: Vitamin T

Need a Designer? Front End Developer? Digital Creative? We’re here for you! Vitamin T is the only talent agency designed to meet the exclusive needs of creative freelancers and the ad agencies and...

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Karen McGrane on Content: WYSIWTF

Arguing for “separation of content from presentation” implies a neat division between the two. The reality, of course, is that content and form, structure and style, can never be fully separated....

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Magic Numbers and Progressive Enhancement

Chris Coyier explains Magic Numbers: Magic numbers in CSS refer to values which “work” under some circumstances but are frail and prone to break when those circumstances change. They are usually...

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In my first article, “Even Better In-Browser Mockups with Node.js,” I explained why Node.js makes designing applications easier and more efficient, and how to get started. Now it’s time to see your...

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Even Better In-Browser Mockups with Node.js

Designing in the browser has all sorts of benefits, like producing more accurate, comprehensive results and removing the extra step of converting from image file to markup and CSS. But even sites...

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Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript

» Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript If you’re looking for a thorough JavaScript style guide for your team, Rick Waldron’s Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript...

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Breakpoint: Really Simple, Organized, Media Queries with Sass

» Breakpoint: Really Simple, Organized, Media Queries with Sass Breakpoint is a Compass extension designed to simplify the creation and management of media queries.

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Unheap: A Tidy Repository of jQuery Plugins

» Unheap: A Tidy Repository of jQuery Plugins A nice-to-look-at, easy-to-use reference library of jQuery plugins. ℅ @candicodeit

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The W3C on Web Standards: Digital Publishing and the Web

Electronic books are on the rise everywhere. For some this threatens centuries-old traditions; for others it opens up new possibilities in the way we think about information exchange in general,...

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One Less JPG

» One Less JPG Before you go worrying about how to minify every last library or shave tests out of Modernizr, try and see if you can remove just one photo from your design. It will make a bigger...

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This week's sponsor: An Event Apart

Coming to the Marriott Copley Place June 24–26, 2013, An Event Apart Boston is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care...

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Scott Berkun Speaking at AEA: The Five Most Dangerous Ideas

In this 60-minute video from An Event Apart Boston, Scott Berkun tackles designer disempowerment. He discusses how power actually works, and why developing salesmanship skills is a must, even if...

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David Sleight on New-School Publishing: Passing On Our Rights

Last month, a U.S. District Court handed down a decision that’s pretty awful if you care about consumer rights and digital content. It all started in 2011, when a company called ReDigi launched a...

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This week's sponsor: Mobilism

Don’t miss Mobilism 2013, May 16-17 in Amsterdam. Featuring talks from leaders like Peter-Paul Koch, Stephen Hay, Anna Debenham, and Mat Marquis; workshops with Josh Clark and Max Firtman; and a...

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It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web

» It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web The makers of Forecast.io struggle to explain the concept of "installing" web apps. (Spoiler: They succeed.) ℅ @paul_irish

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Cennydd Bowles on UX & Design: Hellish Other People

Childish, inaccurate, bizarre, and condescending? Perhaps—but you can’t just ignore articles like that. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic’s Seven Rules for Managing Creative People1 has caused some serious...

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Two Tools to Keep Your CSS Clean

Courtesy of Cody Robbins, here are two tools that will help your CSS stay lean and mean: csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations....

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Hack Your Maps

Web maps have come a long way. Improved data, cleaner design, better performance, and more intuitive controls have made web maps a ubiquitous and critical component of many apps. They’ve also...

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The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript

Writing Testable JavaScript

This week's sponsor: Igloo Software

Matt Mullenweg on Yahoo-Tumblr

MapBox Develops an Open Source Vector Format for Maps

This week's sponsor: Typekit

Paul Irish on Chrome Moving to Blink

W3C to Publish Encrypted Media Extensions Specification

Research Tips For Designers and Developers

Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: You Can’t Do Everything

Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier

This week's sponsor: Vitamin T

Karen McGrane on Content: WYSIWTF

Magic Numbers and Progressive Enhancement

Node at Work: A Walkthrough

Even Better In-Browser Mockups with Node.js

Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript

Breakpoint: Really Simple, Organized, Media Queries with Sass

Unheap: A Tidy Repository of jQuery Plugins

The W3C on Web Standards: Digital Publishing and the Web

One Less JPG

This week's sponsor: An Event Apart

Scott Berkun Speaking at AEA: The Five Most Dangerous Ideas

David Sleight on New-School Publishing: Passing On Our Rights

This week's sponsor: Mobilism

It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web

Cennydd Bowles on UX & Design: Hellish Other People

Two Tools to Keep Your CSS Clean

Hack Your Maps

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