Nothing groundbreaking. Just some atmosphere shots. The show was a lot of fun and it was great meeting everyone.
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HTML5 + WordPress Resource Links From my WordCamp Boston Presentation
Owing to the contrast on the A/V system, my last slide was illegible, so here are all the links that folks couldn’t see.
The presentation itself:
HTML5 + WordPress
And the resource links:
The working group
http://www.whatwg.org/
Mark Pilgrim’s HTML5 book
Dive into HTML5
The Modernizr library
Modernizr
The outliner
http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/
The post talking about Kubrick
I’m Messing Around With an HTML5 Version of the Default WordPress Theme
My other sites:
DrunkenFist.com (art portfolio)
@robreact
I’ll have video of the presentation up shortly (I hope!)
Two Front End Development Interview Questions No One Has Been Getting Recently + One I’m Afraid to Even Ask
Yes, I’m still helping out with screening candidates. I haven’t yet interviewed someone to replace me, but there’s still a week to go.
Anyway, we’ve had a couple of technical questions that candidates universally failed to answer. Why share them here? For starters I just want to know if we’re crazy to expect people to know these. I also like the idea of a kind of “easter egg” for candidates. If someone does enough research to find my blog and read this post, they’ve shown me something, even if it’s not the answer to one of the questions posed below.
The two that have surprisingly turned into stumpers (at least for the last five or six folks I’ve interviewed)
- What is
hasLayout? - What’s the significance of setting the
bodytext to .625em?
And the bonus question that I want to ask, but don’t, because it’s kind of goofy to say out loud
- What’s “The Mark of the Web?”
Answers after the jump.
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Recent Reading (JavaScript Library CDNs, User-Agent Strings, Hacks, Hacks and Hacks)
Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs?
Interesting reading. Here’s the salient bit:
Or, more simply: If we use Google’s JavaScript Library CDN, we are asking the majority of our website visitors (who don’t have jQuery already cached) to take a 1/3 of a second penalty (the time to connection to Google’s CDN) to potentially save a minority of our website visitors (those who do have a cached copy of jQuery) 1/3 of a second (the length of time to download jQuery 1.3.2 over a 768kps connection).
That does not make sense. It makes even less sense as the download speed of your visitors increases. Try to avoid serving 20 or 30 kilobytes of content at the cost of using a 3rd party just doesn’t make sense.
We’ve used the Google CDN to serve jQuery at Cramer with no obvious complaints and I heartily recommend using the configurator/CDN option that Yahoo offers (for the unitiated, it builds a “just what you need” package to grab from their CDN, so you don’t have to serve every YUI Module just to do x), but Billy Hoffman’s article definitely makes me rethink the former.
History of the user-agent string
If you didn’t live through it (and I didn’t live through the whole thing), now you can revisit the strange history of the user-agent string in just a few, well-written, minutes.
Comprehensive List of Browser-Specific CSS Hacks
I hate me some browser hacks. But that’s a mighty fine list.
Detecting browsers javascript hacks
We spent about 45 minutes running variations of the one-liners above in the console during a code-review last week. Fun times.
It sounded like this a couple of times:
“Wait, what?”
…
And finally… are you enjoying the jQuery advent calendar? I’m interested in running jQuery 1.4 against the demo code I build for my library presentation. I expect to be bowled over.
I’m Messing Around With an HTML5 Version of the Default WordPress Theme
WordCamp Boston is less than a week away, and as part of my presentation I wanted to show the new elements in an environment that basically everyone that works on WordPress sites will recognize- the default theme. To that end, I mocked up a functioning HTML5ized version of the home page to use as an example. That was both easy and fun.
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