Don't Overthink It Grids
The vast majority of websites out there use a grid. They may not explicitly have a grid system in place, but if they have a "main content area" floated to the left a "sidebar" floated to the right, it's a simple grid. If a more complex layout presents itself, people often reach for a grid framework. They assume grids are these super difficult things best left to super CSS nerds. That idea is perpetuated by the fact that a lot of the grid systems they reach for are very complicated. Here's how I build grids.
Software Rot - Manage those Dependencies : Software & Technology @kirkk.com
In Rotting Design, I spoke of how software tends to rot over time. When you establish your initial vision for the software’s design and architecture, you imagine a system that is easy to modify, extend, and maintain. Unfortunately, as time passes, changes trickle in that exercise your design in unexpected ways.
yEd - Graph Editor
yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS X.
10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know — JavaScript Scene
Good to hear: Classes: create tight coupling or hierarchies/taxonomies.Prototypes: mentions of concatenative inheritance, prototype delegation, functional inheritance, object composition. Red Flags: No preference for prototypal inheritance & composition over class inheritance. Learn More: 4.
Readme Driven Development
I hear a lot of talk these days about TDD and BDD and Extreme Programming and SCRUM and stand up meetings and all kinds of methodologies and techniques for developing better software, but it's all irrelevant unless the software we're building meets the needs of those that are using it. Let me put that another way. A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. By the same principle a beautifully crafted library with no documentation is also damn near worthless. If your software solves the wrong problem or nobody can figure out how to use it, there's something very bad going on. Fine.
Learn to Code: 13 Tips that Could Save You Years of Effort — JavaScript Scene
Learn to Code: 13 Tips that Could Save You Years of Effort When you’re new to coding, it can be hard to know where to start, and it’s easy to get sucked down paths that could waste a whole lot of your time and money. I’m Eric Elliott, author of “Programming JavaScript Applications” (O’Reilly), development team leader, JavaScript instructor, and public speaker. I teach and hire JavaScript developers.
Writing A ReadMe File
Volume Number: 14 (1998) Issue Number: 10 Column Tag: Electronic Documentation by Tonya Engst A member of the Macintosh press tells all. Learn about the link between a ReadMe file and press coverage, plus discover the secrets of a great ReadMe file ReadMe First!
YamlDotNet
YamlDotNet is a .NET library for YAML. YamlDotNet provides low level parsing and emitting of YAML as well as a high level object model similar to XmlDocument. A serialization library is also included that allows to read and write objects from and to YAML streams. What is YAML?
