Ever since I started teaching at the New York Code and Design Academy , I have been thinking about the core qualities of a successful designer and developer. The class aims to teach the students enoug
Part I | Part II | Part III For the last few months, I've been cautiously testing a radical-sounding hypothesis on smart people: entrepreneurs are the new labor . Or to put it in a more useful way, the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a…
April 22, 2013 by I’m going to talk today about what goes on in inside developers’ heads whenthey make estimates, why that’s so hard to fix, and how I personally figuredout how to live and write softw
In his recent post The Dire State of WordPress , James Shakespeare predicted doom for WordPress if it doesn’t undergo radical architectural change. Henri Bergius followed up with a similar argument in Why WordPress needs to get Decoupled . I appreciate where they are coming from: I can say without…
I’ve a great deal of experience with two open source content management systems: WordPress and Drupal. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, which I won’t get into here. If I had to pick the
Apr 12, 2013 How To Benefit From CSS Generated Content And Counters About The Author Gabriele Romanato is a web developer. Contributor of the W3C CSS Test Suite, he is also skilled with jQuery and Wor
Why do we want to write single page apps? The main reason is that they allow us to offer a more-native-app-like experience to the user. This is hard to do with other approaches. Supporting rich intera
I'm getting more and more requests for "Element Queries", and it's getting annoying to address them via Twitter, so I thought I'd discuss the limitations and challenges of this idea right here and jus
I used to be a Google fan. I must have tried most of their services as early as possible. But lately, they are pushing towards a version of the WWW that I don’t like. A WWW where things only happen if you use the “right” browser, where URLs are second class web citizens, where you have to have a…
Illustration by Luke Pearson Who wouldn’t want a job where you only have to work five hours a week, you get summers off, your whole job is reading and talking about books, and you can never be fired? Such is the enviable life of the tenured college literature professor, and all you have to do to get…
A Place for Sharing Ideas and Stories There is plenty of media in the world already. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushi
December 21, 2012 Page Weight Matters Three years ago, while I was a web developer at YouTube, one of the senior engineers began a rant about the page weight of the video watch page being far too larg
I keep seeing this topic push up about how data is affecting creativity. Some say we are losing our sense of narration and storytelling. It’s not this at all. We are just experiencing a shift that oth
Preface: Nothing in this post is necessarily new, or even anything I thought of first (save for a name or two). However,I’m writing it because I’d like to start building some consistency and naming co
Most developers nowadays are recognizing that if you’re developing large applications that have different views and states, it is best to take a modular or object-oriented approach to your CSS develop
Learning to design is learning to see , an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to our profession. Our mind is not a camera. Seeing is not a passive act. We
By David Walsh on March 22, 2013 A few weeks back, I tweeted that I loved functions that returned functions. I got quite a few replies to the tune of.... WTF?! It's important that people understand th
Mar 11, 2013 Responsible Considerations For Responsive Web Design About The Author Jordan Moore is a Web designer and front end developer based in Bangor, Northern Ireland. He is a responsive web desi
Welcome to the second part of Using Backbone Within the WordPress Admin. In the first part, we set up the 'back-end' of our plugin and now in the second part we'll finish off by adding our 'client-sid
As JavaScript is slowly moving out of the browser, several tools have emerged that significantly improve JavaScript's robustness. One such tool is called Underscore.js and that's what we're going to t
Mar 5, 2013 We’re Gonna Need A Bigger API! About The Author Jake is a Developer Advocate at Google who’s keen on Web performance. He developed Sprite Cow to help ease the pain of sprite sheets. Jake s
mir.aculo.us Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of Zepto.js , of script.aculo.us , and I'm a Ruby on Rails core alumnus . With Amy Hoy I'm building cheerful software, like Noko Time Tracking and Eve
Nicolas Gallagher ( @necolas ) is a front end developer at Twitter and has worked on big projects like HTML5 Boilerplate and Normalize.css . Nicolas talked about questioning old assumptions about fron
btf-D18 07.07.11 BACK TO THE FUTURE: Hypertext the Way It Used To Be Theodor Holm Nelson and Robert Adamson Smith Project Xanadu ABSTRACT. Others imitate paper (Word, Acrobat) and the constant 3D worl
Who are they talking about? Why haven’t I ever heard of him? I was at SRI , a research institute by the Stanford campus. Around me was a lively group of some of the best minds in Computer Science, som
Note: this article was originally sent out in my newsletter. Sign up now to receive design tips like this once a week, and in addition you’ll also receive my Color Theory for Startups eBook for free! My friend/ nemesis Jarrod Drysdale recently released the landing page for his new project, Cascade .…
As 1942 began, the Americans had joined World War II and the Battle of the Atlantic began to intensify. German U-boats were picking off merchant ships at an alarming rate. From January 13 to February
Eric is at An Event Apart in Atlanta talking about Strong Layout Systems . Following on from Brother Jeffrey’s presentation , he begins with a reading… In the beginning Sir Tim created the server and
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Get the Kindle version: If you're paying attention to what's going on in the design world, you've probably noticed the ongoing debate around skeuomorphism vs flat design . So here's a quick test. Which of these two calculators feature a skeuomorphic design? Which of these two apps is skeuomorphic?…
It's easy to think of writing as something that flows through a writer, an already-perfect string of words and phrases that simply needs to be put to paper or screen. There's something romantic about a solitary writer channeling some paragon of creativity or another, able to have a masterpiece…
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