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Change Mac App Icons
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I recently got a new MacBook Pro. Setting up a new machine is a pornographic euphoric experience: no app collisions, optimal performance, and a fresh canvas to work with. The first step is setting up your...
Using pointer-events with Media Queries
We all know that there are a number of ways we can modify layout based on CSS media queries -- hell, we can even animate properties between media queries. One bit of outside the box thinking with media queries is deals with
pointer-events
.Meteor for Front-End Engineers
As part of my daily web browsing routine, I follow a number of front-end blogs. I'm always amazed at how far good front-end engineers can push JavaScript and CSS, and how well they are able to master the intricacies of web browsers.Yet I also can't help...
Fixing ‘vagrant up’ Errors
When I'm working on MDN's source, kuma, I use a technology called Vagrant to do so. Vagrant helps to create an manage a virtual machine that hosts MDN locally. Occasionally, however, I get errors which prevent me from starting the...
The Truth About Code Review II
Code review is an essential but sometimes funny part of creating an awesome product or open source project. Of course your project has standards and the developers are all relatively professional, but sometimes developers still don't quite believe in the same coding styles and methodologies.
YUI Compressor Media Query Issues
I've been coding out the redesign for a responsive website and it's been a lot of fun...and a lot of media queries. A few of the media queries have multiple conditions so I have `and` sprinkled into them quite a bit. Everything was going...
Per-Project Whitespace with EditorConfig
Standards can change from project to project. Single quotes or double quotes? MooTools, Dojo, or micro-frameworks? And then the question that has started wars: spaces or tabs? I'm a tab guy myself but the team that I work on has set a two-space standard. It's not...
Starting to Write CSS
Don't you feel that CSS is not the same anymore? Last few years became a hot topic and many smart people talked about it. CSS is not that little thing which front-end developer should do to make the page looks pretty. It's far more then that.
CSS Clear Fix
Clearing CSS floats is just as important to creating CSS structures as anything could be. For years we would clear our floated elements by adding one element with the clear: both; style simple to perform the clear. This practice was fine but it introduced elements into...
Mighty Deals: Bundle Storm: The Bundle of Bundles
Mighty Deals does an awesome job putting together offers that feature highly useful tools at a much lower price than you would if you purchased each tool separately. My favorite thus far was the Killer Photoshop Actions bundle -- I've spent hours adding filters to...