Recently I watched a video on building for touch screens that discusses the challenges when building for touch and keyboard interactions —something that is on the mind of many, many, many, many, many people and something I’ve written about before. So what’s the best way to deal with touch at the moment? Modernizr? Well, detecting for touch primarily using something like Modernizr.touch
can sometimes lead to false positive results plus it can be dangerous to make that assumption when a device also includes a keyboard. Read More →
Tag Archives : Tips January 2014
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The GUI vs. The CLI: Beyond the GUI for file transfers and directory syncing
I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to using a gui over the cli to transfer/update files on a remote server. For the majority of my work I use Fetch when I need to transfer or grab single files and sometimes I will even go as far as mirroring with Fetch to sync entire projects. There are better ways for sure, but I really wanted to see what else is out there and the benefits of each method/tool available (ones that don’t use a gui at all!). I decided to take to the tweeters in hopes that other developers would provide me with some feedback/opinions. Read More →
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Keeping your front-end tool chain up-to-date : Node, NPM and Ruby
WARNING! I use a Mac so these comments and examples are from the point of view of a Mac owner.
Setting up an environment with the required dependencies can be a chore to be blunt. Here’s a rundown of the best approaches to keep these dependencies in place once they’re installed. This is not an article about installation, but what to do once they are installed and maybe a few hot items/points of interest to enhance your experience. As a FRED these days you’ll certainly run into a project that may have node or may use Ruby and knowing how to operate in these environments plus keep them updated can be a huge advantage to you or your team members. Read More →
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Which Git? How to Keep Git Up To Date on Mac
As we all know the majority of the Web development community uses Git. The funny part to the whole story is the fact that most developers don’t even know what version they’re using. Read More →
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Silky Smooth Hopping: How to SSH with ease
“Silky Smooth Hopping” is a term coined by Paul Irish at the HTML5DevConf held by marakana on November 5th, 2012. It’s a way to login via ssh painlessly and with ease. You’ll need to know what the Terminal is before you begin, and have some knowledge of basic commands (e.g. listing directories, viewing file contents, etcetera). You’ll also need to know how to create a public ssh key with a service such as Github. What we’re gonna do is really not that difficult –and honestly, I’m no Terminal whiz either so I’ll make sure to hold your hand every step of the way. Read More →
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Installing PhantomJS for Yeoman
In order to run Yeoman properly you’ll require a few dependencies like Command Line Tools for Xcode, Homebrew, NodeJS, git, NodeJS, ruby, RubyGems, Compass, jpegtran, optipng, yeoman global npm module and the most important puzzle piece and part of today’s discussion; PhantomJS. Read More →
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Where’s Your Assets?
Damn! I’m hard coding all the project imagery assets within my stylesheets. What if the url to those image assets change? This is where Compass will come to the rescue. Read More →