Shoot to kill; CSS selector intent – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation
17 July, 2012 Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry. It’s worth noting that selector intent is something I completely made up at some point today; if you think there’s a better name then please let me know!
The Best Way to Learn JavaScript
Learning something new is scary. For me, the biggest issue with picking up a new skill is that I don’t know what I don’t know. Given that, it’s often useful to find a plan for learning whatever you’re interested in.
Faster Websites: Crash Course on Web Performance
By Ilya Grigorik on January 15, 2013 Delivering a fast and optimized user experience in the browser requires careful thinking across many layers of the stack - TCP and up. In a rather ambitious undertaking, when I got the chance to run a three hour (marathon) workshop at Devoxx 2012, I tried to do exactly that: a crash course on web performance. Even with that much time, much was left unsaid, but I'm happy with how it went - it turned out to be one of the most popular workshops. The best part is, the video is now available online for free! The Devoxx team did an amazing job of post-processing the recording, with inline slides, full agenda navigation, and more.
14 Coding Challenges to Help You Train Your Brain
Programming is becoming an essential part of nearly every industry known to man, the way it helps to organize and maintain large systems is not possible to compare to anything else, and so more and more people begin their journey. You can learn to code both from interactive platforms and also from books – whichever you find most appropriate and easy to learn from. But, sometimes that’s not good enough, and we want to practice new things. Coding is a lot about creativity, your ability to come up with new and interesting ideas; but sometimes, due to a large amount of time spent tackling common problems, we forget about creativity. I’m not quite sure whether that is the reason coding challenges were made, but they certainly help with the part where you need to think of your own stuff to program. We could say that coding challenges are great for:
The Front End Developer's Dilemma
Learn Development at Frontend Masters Hello, my name is Geoff and I am a web designer. At least, that’s what I tell people I do for a living, because it’s what most people understand. The truth is, I am a front end developer. If you read this blog with any sort of regularity, then I don’t even need to bother explaining that job title.
Javascript Tutorial
In this lesson, we'll learn about the core functionality of the JavaScript language. Lesson Goals To work with the HTML DOM.To follow JavaScript syntax rules.To write JavaScript inline.To write JavaScript in script blocks.To create and link to external JavaScript files.To work with JavaScript objects, methods, and properties.To reference HTML elements with JavaScript.To use event handlers. In this course, we refer to the language we are learning as JavaScript, which is what it is usually called. However, JavaScript was invented by Netscape Communications and is now owned by Oracle Corporation. Microsoft calls its version of the language JScript.
Frictionless Web Development with Flask
Feb 03, 2011 Static Sites and Rapid Iteration with a Lightweight Python Kit of Flask, YAML, Markdown and Fabric. For a while I've been looking for a more fluid toolkit for rapidly developing and iterating static sites.
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Low-cost .com Domains with Whois Privacy In an effort to be more privacy conscious I’ve been looking to transition to having Domain Privacy enabled on all the domains that I own. As it turns out many domain registrars, including my current one, charge an additional fee for this service. In an effort to save some money I did a price comparison […] 15 Comments · Posted: November 22nd, 2014 Write Code Every Day
Front-end Developer Handbook 2019 - Learn the entire JavaScript, CSS and HTML development practice!
This is a guide that everyone can use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2019. It is specifically written with the intention of being a professional resource for potential and currently practicing front-end developers to equip themselves with learning materials and development tools. Secondarily, it can be used by managers, CTOs, instructors, and head hunters to gain insights into the practice of front-end development.
