Perf Rocks!
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Great new resource with a collection of articles, tools & talk slides to help you build lightning fast websites. Because web performance matters. http://www.perf.rocks
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The Difficult Has Become Too Easy
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I just read this post by Jonathan Stark called ' Mobile Last?’ about his experience at the Rails Rumble hackathon and having come across the same assumptions from various people on a frequent basis,…
Harbour Front HK Monthly #3 (and #3.5)
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The next Harbour Front Monthly event is coming up and because it's during StartmeupweekHK we"re running two events in a row this time. The first event will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2014…
Escaping an Issue with Grunt "string-replace"
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Since I started using Grunt, I have found more and more cases where Grunt tasks turn out to be very useful and a huge timesaver. That is, timesaver once you got whatever you’re trying to do up and…
Mac OS X Yosemite Upgrade & PostgreSQL
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Even though I am currently deep into a project which is coming closer to launch and despite trying to not upgrade yet, I couldn’t wait to install Yosemite on my main machine. So I did. Luckily…
Mac OS X: Open With… Duplicates
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This is the problem: You want to open a file using something other than the default application. You right-click its icon in the Finder, choose Open With, and a submenu pops up with an absurd number…
Design for Mobile: Why We Need to Think Beyond the West
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A while ago I wrote an article for NET magazine which appeared in issue 255, May 2014. The article is now available online on CreativeBloq. Read Design for Mobile: Why We Need to Think Beyond the…
Harbour Front HK Monthly #1
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I'm happy to announce that Harbour Front HK will now introduce a new monthly event called "Harbour Front Monthly". Harbour Front Monthly will cover a variety of topics around all things design…
Grunt-processhtml Multiple/All Files in a Directory
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A while ago I started to use Grunt in my projects and once you get your head around it, it can be a great helper. Unfortunately I find the documentation for some things hard to find and sometimes…
Front End, Front-End or Frontend?
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Despite so many people working, writing and talking about this field, it's hard to find out what the correct spelling of "front-end" was. At times I can become quite obsessed about such things and so…
Front End Best Practices
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This week I held a talk about Front End Best Practices at WomenWhoCode Hong Kong at the Wynd co-working space. While I was putting the talk together it became clear that there could be more than…
A Different Mobile Navigation Pattern – Made in China
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I recently came across the mobile shopping pages of Taobao and noticed their rather not so common approach to their mobile navigation. I'm not quite sure what to think of it at the moment though, but…
The Ultimate* Guide to Conference Speaking
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Over the last few months I have been collecting all kinds of different posts on speaking at conferences, from the dos and donts to sound advice and how to get into speaking in the first place.…
On The Existence of Slow(er) Mobile Networks
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We have been talking about web performance being part of the design and how UX can be improved by performance for quite a while now and web performance has even become a whole new discipline to…
Harbour Front Web Days
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it's been a while in the making and it wasn't easy to make everything work out due to timings and scheduling, but I'm happy that we"re finally getting close to the start of Harbour Front Web Days,…
Getting Ready to Grunt
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Over the last few months (or should I even say years?), frontend development has become much more advanced, mature and many new tools have been popping up. One of these tools is the build tool Grunt,…
Talks from Chrome Dev Summit 2013
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It already took place a few weeks ago, but there were some great talks at the Chrome Dev Summit 2013, especially on browser and web performance. Fortunately there are two video recordings available,…
Automating Front-end Workflow
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Improving Frontend Happiness with better Tooling. Great title for a presentation full of good tips on today's tools to improve and automate your daily fronted workflows. Speakerdeck Slides:…
Git Cheatsheet
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Nice visual Git Cheatsheet and a good overview of the most common and useful commands: Git Cheatsheet Charis Rooda also had some good links regarding GIT as well.
Introducing "layout boundaries"
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"Layout" is the process a browser undergoes to calculate the position and size of each element in a document before it can start painting pixels. The process of layout can be costly, especially on…
A Change of Schedule
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I have recently started to change my schedule. It mainly started out of curiosity and trying to be more productive. I don't read life hacker or such, but I"ve read two of Joel Gascoine's articles on…
Spotlight & Indexing on OS X
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Some time ago I turned off Spotlight all the way, since I rarely need it and it's rather annoying, since it does make the fans go crazy more often than not. But then, other times I think it's helpful…
Resuming curl Downloads
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I just needed to download another disk image from modern.ie to test a new site I'm working on in Internet Explorer. Most of these downloads are rather large files and can take some time to finish.…
Your Work Is A Gift
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it's been a few quiet weeks over here – I have been travelling quite a bit and been otherwise busy as well. While I was in Germany at Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Duesseldorf, I saw (and also…
Spec Work — Now 100% More Responsive
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Spec work has been around for a long time and it's not a secret that a lot of agencies or freelancers do accept this kind of work. A recent occasion brought a new kind of attention to this problem…