crazy layouts
I've been playing with the idea of creating crazy, magazine style, layouts since I Attended Jen Simmons and Rachel Andrew workshops at An Event Apart last year. I came up with this crazy idea, build...
Web Components as pattern libraries: Styling the element
Styling the element # Insert the following CSS in the style declaration for our pattern-figure element :host { display: block; clear: both; } :host > figure { max-width:...
Web Components as Pattern Libraries: Building the element
One of the things that have caught my attention about web components is how easy it is to adapt them as pattern libraries and design libraries. Because we can isolate the style and scripts for each...
CSS and Javascript working together
Do we need CSS after all? # CSS is not immune to the framework wars. This is a quick look at some of the available CSS frameworks. Bootstrap Foundation Semantic-UI Susy Material...
Developer frustration: Better be ready
There is a point when we need to decide if technology is a help or a hindrance. This came up recently in a conversation with @jiminpan in Twitter made me realize something: We all react differently to...
(Fully) Understanding Why To Progressively Enhance
Introductory Note # Every so often we see twitter rants about progressive enhancement versus using Javascript for everything... after all we can do most of what CSS can with Javascript and the CSS...
Thoughts and experience with frameworks: The best tool for the job
Let's face it. The web has become too big. At every stage on the development process we have several different tools each with a passionate following that will tell you their tool is better than the...
My basic development toolkit
The argument about tool overload is not a new one. There have been many discussions over the years about what framework is better, what language is better, whether you should use Ruby on Rails versus...
Conference Report: Books in Browsers
Part conference review and part ideas moving forward. This may or may not make as much sense as the review for AEA did. I still think they complement each other. Where AEA dealt with the how to...
Conference Reports: An Event Apart, San Francisco
I thought I was crazy when I saw that both An Event Apart and Books in Browsers were back to back on the same week and decided not to cancel. Now that BiB is almost done I'm kinda glad it did. AEA...