So I’ve been learnin’ me some mo’ JavaScript. I know the basics, and I know
jQuery fairly well, but jQuery != JavaScript. I’m
reading Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript: The Good Parts while listening to his Yahoo! videos on pretty-much the same content.
I just ran across a few posts on JavaScript interview questions; these are a good reminder of key parts of JS to pay attention to:
Stoyan Stefanov (@stoyanstefanov) is known as one of the ‘sultans of speed’. In December 2009 he wrote a 24-day series on page speed which turned into a book offer. He’s now writing that book in true open-sourced fashion.
Stoyan’s work-in-progress book is available to read at Book of Speed. If you have anything to add or even edits, you can fork the project on Github and submit a pull request with your changes.
Note: Take a look at the Github project just to see how it’s structured. Chapter text is in the /src folder with a build script to generate the TOC. This could be made into a very nice book starter project for anyone.
MailChimp has revolutionized they way email newsletters are sent out. Their best feature is embracing the designer in their products; they know the design makes the email.
They’ve published 35 email templates open-sourced on Github
Be sure to check out their entire resources section. Great stuff in there.
My wife is originally from Ohio and still likes to keep up with the happenings in her town. Recently, the Canton Repository and Massillon Independent erected a pay-wall similar to the New York Times. You get 20 free articles, then you must be a member for any additional articles. The problem is when you follow a link into the newspaper website, you get a large signup box that covers the screen, and closing it redirects you back to the homepage leaving you to hunt down your article again.
Below is a quick fix to stop that pesky box from coming up. Just set this as your user stylesheet in your favorite browser.
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An Event Apart just wrapped up, and the interwebs are buzzing with links, talks, and ideas. Luke W and Jeremy Keith both live-blogged several talks. Links to talks and Jeffrey Zeldman’s post-envent follow up are below.
Missing:
Google’s new fancy web book — “20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web”. I haven’t actually read the book; I’ve been too busy just looking at it.
I can only hope this is somehow a HTML-book framework to be reused. That would be great.
http://www.20thingsilearned.com/
UPDATE John Gruber at DaringFireball has a nice writeup on the book and a few links.
I wanted to run Windows 7 BootCamp on my new MacBook Air. I didn’t want to spring for the external SuperDrive for a one-time use, and BootCamp says you have to have a physical drive. Turns out, with a little tweaking, you can use a USB flash drive instead.
It looks like IE7 and IE8’s PNG transparency isn’t quite perfect. If you use a transparent PNG and a IE filter, then it looks like you’ll loose your alpha transparency.
I’m about to start a small new project, and I was thinking it’d be a perfect time to start testing HTML5. However, this project must work in IE6 - there’s no negotiation on that.
Here are my brief findings while research HTML5 in general, and if it’s viable for an IE6 world.
This post will be continuously updated as I discover more sites.