Archive for July, 2010

Review: HTML5 for Web Designers

A review of one of the first books to cover the new HTML5 standard: HTML5 for Web Designers, from A Book Apart.

July 25, 2010 @ 6:44 pm — 1 Comment

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Weekly Links #115

How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website A tutorial on building a mobile-friendly stylesheet, and also on retrofitting an existing site to include the same. Unit Test using test doubles, aka Mock, Stub, Fake, Dummy Laurent Kempé explains some unit-testing terminology, differentiating various types of "fake"e; objects. Deciphering [...]

July 25, 2010 @ 6:24 pm — 1 Comment

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Weekly Links #114

HTML5 For Web Designers Sells Out A Book Apart’s first print run has sold out within two months. Not surprised – I’ve read it, and it is a good book. Getting Started with WordPress Custom Menus A good tutorial on making use of one of WordPress’ latest and greatest features. CSS3 PIE A script that [...]

July 15, 2010 @ 12:16 pm — 0 Comments

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Review: Brownfield Application Development in .NET

A helpful book on reviewing and updating existing projects to streamline the development process.

July 12, 2010 @ 7:32 pm — 1 Comment

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Weekly Links #113

Prefix or Posthack Eric Meyer explains the use of vendor-specific prefixes in CSS, and why they are useful for the evolution of the web. Introducing WebMatrix Scott Guthrie announces a new tool – WebMatrix – that is composed of a few new tools, and provides an all-in-one web development solution. Great Ways to Learn jQuery [...]

July 11, 2010 @ 10:20 pm — 1 Comment

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Weekly Links #112

JScript and DOM changes in IE 9 preview 3 The latest preview appears to be catching up on script support in a big way. View the resulting compatibility table. IE‘s big leap forward; CSS3 selectors fully supported Peter Paul Koch of QuirksMode reports on the CSS support in the latest IE 9 preview – appears [...]

July 4, 2010 @ 2:20 pm — 1 Comment

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