“Mobile-first” responsive web design is the now-mainstream best practice of using min-width media queries to only serve up the styles that are needed for the device that’s loading the page. For a more detailed explanation, read this fantastic article. First reading about the mobile-first approach in 2011 was a real “ah-ha!” moment for me. Sure, [...]
In this May Day edition of Trail Notes: A better git difftool, Rails 4 New Hotness, Animation in the 1930s, and Conan O’Brien.
View demo and download I love my 3-year-old and my constantly puking or feuding cats. Well, one cat anyway. The other one I tolerate because I love my wife. But anyway, when it comes down to it, if too many of the aforementioned family members and I are together in our little house, it’s really [...]
Packery This is a javascript layout library that looks like it has some pretty cool possibilities for dashboard-style layouts. Haven’t played with it yet, but I can’t wait to! — Chris Egghead.io John Lindquist’s screencasts have really helped me get up to speed on AngularJS. Well recommended. — Erik Patterns If you’ve ever wanted a quick way to [...]
Breaking the 1000 ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier You can always make it faster! And after seeing Google’s analysis of the impact of ‘slow’, you should! — Trey A Lovely Tale of a Tea Farming Couple in Sri Lanka Perfect pick-me-up for a rainy morning. I love that today’s technology gives us the ability to share [...]
Chart.js – A beautiful, canvas-based charts library. It even makes doughnuts.- Clay Nathan for You – It is quite possibly the best show in the world right now. - Dave pv – The pv gem makes Pivotal Tracker feel like git (in a good way). View your assigned stories from the command line, start/finish/accept/reject them, or use [...]
A couple of weeks ago, the 12 Spokes team, which usually spans four time zones, converged on a cabin in the Utah mountains for a week of magic. Actually, the word “cabin” is entirely inadequate. Before you go thinking, “Those 12 Spokes, they’re so profligate, look at that castle where they held their retreat,” this [...]
A few months ago, Ethan brought up a great rule for tackling a new project: Identify the hardest parts—the problems you don’t immediately know how you’ll solve—and make it a point to accomplish those pieces first. This is not always easy. When you’re looking at a long list of stories, it can be very tempting [...]
With Ruby 2.0 right around the corner, it might seem somewhat…behind the times to do a post on upgrading your project to ruby 1.9. Nevertheless, it’s something I’ve been working on for a few days now for one of 12 Spokes’s clients, and I think there are a few common issues I can comment on [...]
The other week, for the first time in awhile, I found myself contemplating table markup/styling for an app we’re developing. I was revisiting this basic question: What’s the best (and most appropriate) way to get tables to show up in our web pages? Two Choices When Dan Cederholm wrote his awesome and influential Web Standards Solutions [...]