Thinking Async
Mar
7
2012
27
Here’s the rub: when you load JavaScript from a third party you should do it asynchronously. …
SXSW 2012
Mar
6
2012
I’m headed down to Austin in a few days here for my 2nd SXSW. Hope to see some of you folks there. I’m trying not too have much of a plan, but here’s a few things I’m doing:
There is a SurveyMonkey party and a crew of us from Wufoo / SurveyMonkey will be there hanging out. Free food and drinks. RSVP here and come.
My ShopTalk Show cohort Dave Rupert lives down there. We have no official plans but …
Designing for Decoder Glasses, Print and Web
Feb
29
2012
Michael Buchmiller of BlueHornet walks us through the process of designing a poster for tinted decoder glasses, and then bringing the same idea with a similar interaction to the web with the AnythingZoomer.
Places It’s Tempting To Use Display: None; But Don’t
Feb
27
2012
Help yourself be better at accessibility by using better hiding techniques that don’t use display: none;. This involves some tricks like using more clever class names, being fancier with how you deal with JavaScript library animations, or avoiding hiding all together.
How To Create a Notebook Design with CSS
Feb
23
2012
This tutorial, a guest post by young developer Allen Lawson, will show you how to create a notebook themed website using only CSS.
Latest Snippets
- Corner Ribbon
- Layered Paper
- Base64 Encode of 1x1px Transparent GIF
- Post Data to an iframe
- Append / Prepend Files
- Subdirectories URL Internally Redirect to Query String
- Get Object Size
- Redirect to SSL
- Remove Specific Value from Array
- Paste Events
- Year Shortcode
- Turn on WordPress Error Reporting
- Detect Location by IP
- Send a Text Message
Latest Screencast
#109: Getting off FTP and onto Git Deployment with Beanstalk
In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven't had much experience with this, so forgive me if it's a bit rough.
We start by moving the live website local, including bringing all the files down and copying the database. Then we set up a Git repository in Beanstalk and push it all up to that. Then we give Beanstalk our FTP credentials and set up how we want deployment done. Then we make some local changes to our site, and commit/push them to Beanstalk, which does the deployment for us. By then end, it's all working perfectly.
If you've got questions/comments/suggestions on this workflow, I'd love to hear!
Links from the video:
- Coda
- WordPress
- Plesk / phpMyAdmin
- ChrisCoyier.net / MediaTemple
- Sequel Pro
- Sublime Text 2
- Beanstalk
- MAMP / MAMP Screencast [1] [2]
- Git Tower / GitHub Screencast
Followup:
Mark Jaquith on Working with WordPress Locally (specifically, dealing with plugins and config).
Hot Links
LessMoney →
I love Allan and Steve from LessEverything. I was just recently at my third trip to LessConf, which is a really fun web startup oriented conference. The fellas are at it again already, throwing a new conference called LessMoney. From them:
LessMoney Conference is a 2-day event where 50 people come together to learn & discuss how to become a more profitable, less stressful business owner or freelancer.
Learn from these two guys who have lots of experience with their own small business, as well as other speakers in the same game. It's June 6th & 7th in my old stomping grounds, the lovely Tampa, Florida.
The Industry Podcast →
I joined the gentlemen from the new blog and podcast The Industry for a chat about loads of different web industry related stuff.
The Non-Breaking Space Show →
Remember those three fellas from the last ShopTalk Show? Those guys are from the new(ish) podcast The Non-Breaking Space Show. Dave and I join them in this episode to talk about preprocessors, Git, and other stuff.