Hey,
this week was special to me. Thanks to you and all other supporters, I have been nominated as Young Developer of the Year (and also with my side-project OpenDeviceLab.com) for 2014s netawards and had the honor to join the ceremony this Friday in London. Unfortunately I didn’t win but it was a great day meeting all the lovely people there.
This week I found a couple of interesting things like writing Selenium tests in NodeJS, got a bunch of news like Jekyll 2.0, and lastly some inspiring articles.
News
- Firefox is launching new feedback channels. This means you can now propose new features for the DevTools via Uservoice.
- Firefox got a few patches for Responsive Images which means it will soon start appearing in Nightlies. Wohoo!
- jQuery 1.11.1 and 2.1.1 have been released.
- Jekyll gets 2.
- Vagrant 1.6 is out and supports Windows guests as 1st class supported systems, Docker based environments, and global status and control.
- Five Simple Steps is back, now run by Amie Duggan and Craig Lockwood.
General stuff
- If you ever wondered how the Internet works, this Level3 article gives a little insight on network traffic, provider dependencies and internet middlemen.
- Opera on Mozilla’s PDF.js technology and how well it performs.
Remote working and managing work
- 10 Secrets to becoming a great remote developer. Contribute trust every day, it’s important for your management.
Design
- Open Iconic is an open source icon set available as SVG, icon font and raster formats.
- For responsive design projects, often we don’t look at the big picture yet but we design our future now and so should you.
- “Your button should never say ‘Submit’”.
Tools
- fb-flo is a browser extension (currently only Chrome) by facebook dev enabling live editing CSS, JS, images and reloading like LiveReload but even works on remote machines and different editors.
- Thoughts on new ways to solve bug tracking.
- The Atom editor is now free and open-source for everyone.
- Who is SizerSoze and what does he do?.
- Creating CSS Diffs with Gecko and SlimerJS via NodeJS (instead of ImageMagick) to get better speed.
- Victor Garcia describes a workflow with Grunt to create a stunning Newsletter experience by automating the workflow to inline CSS and other optimizations.
- Introspected tunnels to your localhost.
Git
HTML
- Martin Wolf explains how Responsive Images’
srcsetandsizesattributes work to target dynamically sized images on responsive designs.
Web Standards
- CSS Variables Level 1 are finally in Last Call state which means it’ll be soon marked as stable.
- A recent dispute about the forks of the HTML specification between WHATWG and W3C lead Robin Berjon to write about the problems of current contention methods and how to do better.
JavaScript
- The new guide to use Modernizr responsibly. Because simply using it in the head is not always correct anymore.
- Jeff Walker, the code ranger, wrote and interesting piece about the new Minefield, JavaScript.
- Read about JavaScript promises in wicked detail.
- Identifying the current
<script>element. - Write your Selenium tests with Node—the enjyoable way.
- Learn how to test SSS States (e.g.
:hover) for regression bugs with PhantomCSS.
CSS
- Animating Images with CSS Keyframes. A supercool effect for storytelling articles. I love it.
- Improving phone number links with CSS and take control of those generated links in mobile emails.
- Team Treehouse shares an article to introduce the CSS Flexbox model to beginners.
- A good resource to learn more principles how to write and split up CSS is docssa.info. For example, learn how to set up components.
Go beyond…
- Kate Kiefer Lee about giving, receiving and reacting to Meaningful Feedback.
- Zoe Rooney on Sharing and Needing Credit.
- Derek Sivers’ transscript of his talk about “The Meaning of Life”.
- Keith Robinson on the Beginner’s Mind.
- Stop making excuses and just do it, that’s my challenge to you.
Events
- Mobile and Device Web Dev night in Seattle, May 14, 2014.
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Thanks and all the best,
Anselm