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as Article Beyondtellerand Conference The last week was a special week for me. First, the awesome (and probably best web conference I know of) beyondtellerand 2013 took place. I met a lot of new people and had a great time enjoying all the well chosen speakers. The second day was something special for me – my first SmashingMag article was published this day. Open Device Labs – Why Should We Care? On … -
as Article It's about testing, better code, typography, accessibility and – of course – web performance! Geri Coady's book about Color Accessibility has just been published by five simple steps. It's as cheap as £2 as an E-Book. "Welcome, Recent Graduates!" Summary slide deck about web performance: "Putting Your Site on a Diet" Smashingmag published the "Typographic Design Patterns And …Reading List #9
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as Article Last weeks cool stuff in the webd development blogs. Mapbox announced that they have a new technique serving vector map tiles which is super-awesome. Unfortunately this seems yet to be a closed beta You now can Detecting WebP support with Header Vary Accept on Apache servers Benedikt Kastl wrote a comparison of the current jpeg libraries and Photoshop does best! Yoav Weiss blogged his quick …Reading List 8
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as Article I just read that article which gives an overview on what average websites consist of and compares to responsive websites: What are Responsive Websites made of?. What I saw there made me think what is wrong with the average website: First, it is about the pagesize itself: 1.4MB is the average. I cannot imagine why so many websites need so much 'information' that they are this large. A normal …The (missing) Awareness Of Pagesize
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as Article A short list of the past seven days in web technology. shame.css is an approach to self-identify messed up quick-fix code in its own file so you can get this fixed afterwards when you have the time for it. Care about Type first says typecast and points to the importance of typography in responsive webdesign. Chris Heilmann wrote about how to show multimedia fallback content properly when no …Reading List 7
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as Article Short list of the last week's best articles in web technology What is this <template>-element Keeping Open Source secrets. Tom Ashworth writes how to keep shared secrets or similar private data secret in your open source projects. Stylemanual is an important resource to look at from time to time especially for writers. How to style console.log() by Adam Schwartz grunt-concurrent by the …Reading List 6
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as Article I bought a new camera and decided to go with the Fuji X-E1. It loosk so damn beautiful and retro and is one of the best small cameras technically right now.Fuji X-E1
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as Article Gosh, it has been some weeks already that I've published my last reading list. A new issue now. Progressive Reduction is a nice UI technique focussing on reduction. Before you file an issue, please read this before I am really hoping this will be regarded more often. responsive-nav.js by Viljami Salminen its an UX approach of offering a simple and good usable navigation on different devices. …Reading List 5
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as Article After switching my content from a CMS to Jekyll based github pages I still had to deal with some drawbacks. Now I am using a CDN for static files… Isn't github a CDN? Yes it is. Github serves your content of github pages via several servers around the world which basically means it is a Content Delivery Network. Unfortunately as it only serves static files you are not able to modify headers or …Use a CDN on GitHub pages
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as Article This element being a rookie to HTML5 is still very unknown. I assume many normal developers never even heard of it yet. I want to quickly write up why every developer should know this element. Steve Faulkner proposed the <main> element some months ago to the WHATWG and W3C and it now went into specification of HTML5. As the name already says, the <main> element is a one time per …Why you should use <main>
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as Article As already announced I now switched my engine behind the whole site. From MODX CMS I am now using static files generated through Jekyll and rendered on GitHub's pages CDN. What has changed? Pretty much changed. Beginning with the backend which I dropped completely in favor of Jekyll, followed by rewriting the complete frontend code including a complete design change. It is a fresh, new website …Blogging with Jekyll, Markdown and GitHub pages
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as Article Catch up! Second reading list for this week. Again wonderful content came up so I decided to show them to you as usual on Friday even the last list was published only two days ago. A draft how to order your CSS selectors. Many good thoughts in it, so if you care about your CSS read it! Mariana Mota wrote a lovely blog post for Designers, have you ever attended a hackday? Do it. and mentions good …Reading List 4-13
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as Article Boom! New link list this week has some very cool stuff for you! Read: After several months of work my project with Andre Jay Meissner and Christian Schäfer called opendevicelab.com just launched! This project helps you to find places where you can test websites, web-apps on many mobile devices. Problematic of the HTML5 semantic elements describes why several HTML5 elements do not work. Everyone …Reading List 2-13
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as Article Lots of new interesting articles have been released in the past days that are worth sharing: [infographic comparing a centralized service with a distributed client-web] http://thenittygritty.co/content/home/004-the-future-of-the-web-a-draft/fossystart@2x.png Today The Nitty Gritty published a huge article by Bastian Allgeier: A draft for the future of the web. This is an excellent read going …Reading List 3-13
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as Article From time to time I find enough time to read technical books. When I heard that a book for HTML5 Boilerplate, my favorite HTML framework I've been using for years now, is coming I just had to read it. First, the book starts with the basics of the HTML5 Boilerplate. It explains the components of it, like clearfix, normalize.css, modernizr, etc. Most of you won't need to read that but it adds to …Book: HTML5 Boilerplate Development
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as Article Freshly recovered from one week of holidays I now catch up the latest things happened between Christmas and now. And as usual I am again a bit late with the list. Ooh, that is a harsh title. But Yoav Weiss knows what he's talking about when he says: Bandwidth media queries we don't need them Bryan Jones introduced its own HTML preprocessor in CodeKit 1.4. This means you now can use variables in …Reading List 1-13
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as Article This will be the last Reading List for this year and at that time also a space for some announcements. Unless tomorrow world explodes, 2013 will be an awesome year! Holidays First, I will be in holidays for the next few days and back on January, 6th. Don't expect an answer or anything else via email, twitter oder other communication. I won't have access to phone or internet during this time. …Merry Christmas and… a Reading List
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as Article I missed last weeks reading list due to some outage of my site. I apologize and hope to compensate with this list which is even longer. Enjoy! Last week: The Nitty Gritty is a new frontend development resource with high-level articles created by fellows @drublic and @hellokahlil. jQuery - The little things - 2 by @rodneyrehm tells you about JavaScript security and some useful jQuery helpers Think …Weekly Reading List
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as Article Yesterday Rupert Murdoch announced the end of 'The Daily' for the iPad. Media gone wild but actually the failure is no surprise. Rupert Murdoch is a clever man who invested a lot of money in his tablet product very early. He was one of the men who did understand that a tablet magazine cannot be a print-derivate and also costs money you won't get back after just a few months. Nevertheless he now …You wonder why 'The Daily' failed?
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as Article After another week not maintaining my list (I apologize!) here are a bunch of new and interesting links. Offline First shares some thoughts why you should decouple your webapp from the server and other online dependencies Again W3C, WHATWG and developers are in a fight about a new element. After picture it is now about the <main>-element a rather sad story for web standards as this element …Reading List #26
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