Adactio: Responsible Responsive Images

Jeremy Keith writes about the challenges of serving optimized images conditionally for Responsive Design. This highlights just how early it is in the development of these new responsive techniques.

It’s an exciting time to be building websites.

Keep your SSH session from timing out

So there you are, working away on your web server making something magical through ssh. You get a phone call, or check Twitter, read an article or something. It was only a few minutes!

Jeff Veen at WordCamp SF 2011: How the Web Works

This is an insightful presentation from Jeff Veen, founder and CEO of Typekit, titled How the Web Works.

LiveReload is Refreshing

Tired of tabbing to the browser, and hitting ‘F5′ to review your changes or test a new line of code?

Sass Nested Media Queries

If you are using Sass, you are probably also at least playing with media queries and Responsive web design.

Forge: Build WordPress Themes with Sass and CoffeeScript

Forge is a Ruby Gem that generates scaffolding, and allows for development of WordPress themes using Sass and CoffeeScript.

Responsive WordPress Images

The whole Responsive, flexible design thing is not going away. With WordPress dominating the Open Source platform space, there will be more and more demand for responsive WordPress themes.

Web Development Workflows: Build your own cloud with Dropbox, GIT, Basecamp, Google Apps and CloudHQ

I’ve bulldozed the digital hoarder’s house that was my filesystem, and sworn to clean up my act. Well on my way to a perfect workflow and code management system, I’d like to share what I’m doing with a series of posts. This first post will outline how I built the development cloud that is now making my life much easier.

Less: The Dynamic Stylesheet Language

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js.

Paul Graham: The Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That’s no problem for someone on the manager’s schedule. There’s always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker’s schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it.