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Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes. As more designers embrace this technique, we're not only seeing a lot of innovation but the emergence of clear patterns as well. I cataloged what seem to be the most popular of these patterns for adaptable multi-device layouts.
Multi-Device Layout Patterns
Michael Hartl Contents Foreword My former company (CD Baby) was one of the first to loudly switch to Ruby on Rails, and then even more loudly switch back to PHP (Google me to read about the drama). This book by Michael Hartl came so highly recommended that I had to try it, and the Ruby on Rails Tutorial is what I used to switch back to Rails again.
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example book and screencasts by Michael Hartl
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like the CAP theorem apply well to NoSQL systems. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. In this article I provide a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digest several common modeling techniques.
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques « Highly Scalable Blog
Designing a Secure REST (Web) API without OAuth
Situation You want to develop a RESTful web API for developers that is secure to use, but doesn’t require the complexity of OAuth and takes a simple “ pass the credentials in the query ” approach… or something equally-as-easy for people to use, but it needs to be secure . You are a smart guy, so you start to think… Problem
Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are both exciting and a fascinating topic to explore in any programming language. One reason for this is that they help us build upon the combined experience of many developers that came before us and ensure we structure our code in an optimized way, meeting the needs of problems we're attempting to solve.
Gumroad is an exciting new startup that lets anyone sell digital content with just a link. It was founded by the prolific Sahil Lavingia. Sahil has designed a number of useful apps, ranging from Pinterest in the early days, to Turntable, to Crate, to Caltrainer, etc.
10 UI Ideas to Learn from Gumroad)
Backbone patterns
Here, I try to document the good practices that our team has learned along the way building Backbone applications. Inline templates The problem: if you need to use view templates in a small Backbone application, defining your templates in JavaScript code will be unwieldy and difficult to maintain. Solution: You may need some view templates to be inline in the HTML page.
Introduction Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript has a reasonable claim to being the world's most misunderstood programming language .
A re-introduction to JavaScript
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Today we're going to discuss an effective set of patterns for large-scale JavaScript application architecture. The material is based on my talk of the same name, last presented at LondonJS and inspired by previous work by Nicholas Zakas. Who am I and why am I writing about this topic? I'm currently a JavaScript and UI developer at AOL helping to plan and write the front-end architecture to our next generation of client-facing applications.This entry is part 2 of 16 in the CSS3 Mastery Session - Show All « Previous Next » Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in November, 2010.
The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize
Scaling Your JavaScript Applications (Videos)
Summary Developers creating JavaScript applications these days usually use a combination of patterns like MVC/MV*, modules, widgets and plugins for their architecture.Whilst this works great for apps that are built at a smaller-scale, what happens when your project starts to grow? In this talk, I present an effective set of design patterns for small, medium and large-scale JavaScript applications. You’ll learn how to separate concerns, keep your application logic decoupled, build modules that can exist on their own or be dropped into other projects and scale your applications to minimize any breakage in the user experience.Javascript Best Practices
Introduction This document is a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing javascript code, based on opinions and experience from many developers in the javascript community. Since this is a list of recommendations rather than a list of absolute rules, experienced developers may have slightly differing opinions from those expressed below. Always Use 'var' Variables in javascript either have global scope or function scope, and using the 'var' keyword is vital to keeping them straight.Lumbar is a js-build tool that takes a general codebase and list of platforms to generate modular platform specific applications . Introduction You can think of lumbar as a conditional compiler that targets platforms. However, it doesn’t rely on variables in your source code. There’s no #ifdef or #endifs.
Lumbar
Custom Scrollbars in WebKit
Published by Chris Coyier Way back in the day, you could customize scrollbars in IE (5.5) with non-standard CSS properties like scrollbar-base-color which you would use on the element that scrolls (like the <body> ) and do totally rad things . IE dropped that. These days, customizing scrollbars is back, but it's WebKit this time. It's a bit better now, because the properties are vendor-prefixed (e.g.These tips and tricks are not related to any web browser or any Document Object Model (DOM), they are only general purpose tips and tricks for the JavaScript language. Some of these tricks are using a latest version of JavaScript language (v1.8) and cannot run with the Microsoft Implementation of JavaScript (v1.5). All these tricks has been tested with the Mozilla SpiderMonkey/TraceMonkey JavaScript engine (v1.8). You can try these examples using jshost , a command-line JavaScript interpreter. ( download it ).