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I’m Going to be Presenting at Design Camp Boston
I’m going to be presenting my Intro to CSS talk at Design Camp Boston on November 6, 2010. It’s at NERD. If you can’t make my Boston PHP Meetup version of the presentation, here’s your chance. Failing that, make sure to say hi if you’re there, because I’ll be around all day taking in the…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 13: The Cascade/CSS Specificity
One of the most important things in CSS is understanding the way rules are inherited and applied in the browser. This is one of those things that many developers “get” intuitively but don’t necessarily understand at a granular level. There’s actually an algorithm, so if you’re stumped, you can actually count it out. It works…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 12: Cascading Style Sheets
After a long break, I’m finally back with the long-awaited CSS portion of this little series. In this article I’ll go over some core concepts. Next post I’ll outline one poorly understood, but vital part of CSS. More posts full (yes, full) of tips, tricks and best practices will follow. Core concepts CSS is a…
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An Ant Task to Comment Out console.log Calls from JavaScript Files
As someone who started out doing JavaScript in the 1990s, I’ve been through the dark ages of debugging. Alerts, logging application data into DOM elements, etc. After having been through all that doom, I’m clearly a fan of console.log. I use it all the time. I bet you do too. It’s super useful. The one…
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I Added Keyboard Navigation to my Site
Kind of a fun little exercise. Now I just need to figure out a nice way to hint to people that they can navigate with the keyboard. Check it out. Start here and hit your right arrow key until you start to see the same things twice. Based on shortcuts.js