Link Dump – January 5, 2013 Edition

The holidays are over and because I haven’t published anything last week I made this weeks link dump extra special by putting in 30 links to articles, news and resources on web development. Enjoy!

33 fantastic Chrome extensions | Feature
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/33-fantastic-chrome-extensions

The Web Is Growing Up
http://io.brewerlogic.com/the-web-is-growing-up/

OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS by Ian Storm Taylor
http://ianstormtaylor.com/oocss-plus-sass-is-the-best-way-to-css/

Does JavaScript need classes? | NCZOnline
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/10/16/does-javascript-need-classes/

It’s a Trap! 10 Interview Questions Designed To Trick You
http://smarterer.com/blog/2012/10/16/its-a-trap-10-interview-questions-designed-trick-you/

How to Use Git With FTP
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/how-to-use-git-with-ftp/

CSS3 Regions and Flow
http://www.inserthtml.com/2012/10/css3-regions-flow

Master the new CSS layout properties | Tutorial
http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/master-new-css-layout-properties

The 4Cs: A Code Review Mnemonic
http://blog.mojotech.com/post/33300886323/the-4cs-a-code-review-mnemonic

The Elements of Comment Style
http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/09/20/the-elements-of-comment-style-2/

codylindley/frontend-tools GitHub
https://github.com/codylindley/frontend-tools

❍ IcoMoon
http://icomoon.io/#home

The What, Why and How of Data URIs in Web Design
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/htmlcss-tutorials/the-what-why-and-how-of-data-uris-in-web-design/

More CSS Secrets: Another 10 things you may not know about CSS
http://lea.verou.me/more-css-secrets/#slide4

25 Useful Books For Web Designers And Developers
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/books-for-designers-developers/

Top 10 PHP Security Vulnerabilities
http://phpmaster.com/top-10-php-security-vulnerabilities/

PHP Master | Spooky Scary PHP
http://phpmaster.com/spooky-scary-php/

So you want to be a Rock Star Developer? Maybe you should reconsider.
http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-be-a-rock-star-developer-maybe-you-should-reconsider/

The Real Beauty of CSS3 Box Shadows | Code Theory
http://codetheory.in/the-real-beauty-of-css3-box-shadows/

An Introduction to Media Queries
http://www.briangardner.com/media-queries/

Emmet Documentation
http://docs.emmet.io/

The Problem With Style Guides
http://hellogeri.com/blog/view/the_problem_with_style_guides

Front-End Engineering
http://bitly.com/bundles/dmosher/1

SMACSS and SASS – The future of stylesheets
http://railslove.com/blog/2012/03/28/smacss-and-sass-the-future-of-stylesheets/

JavaScript APIs youve never heard of (and some you have)
http://www.slideshare.net/nzakas/javascript-apis-youve-never-heard-of-and-some-you-have

Hot in web standards: September/October 2012 | Feature
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/hot-web-standards-septemberoctober-2012

Backbonification: migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js
http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2012/11/13/backbonification-migrating-javascript-to-backbone/

Front End Development Guidelines
http://taitems.github.com/Front-End-Development-Guidelines/

Mohit Seth: Best practices in javascript / jQuery
http://blog.sethmohit.com/2012/08/best-practices-in-javascript-jquery.html

Understanding JavaScript Closures | JavaScript, JavaScript
http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/understanding-javascript-closures/

The Problem with Style Guides
http://hellogeri.com/blog/view/the_problem_with_style_guides

Link Dump – December 19, 2012 Edition

Manually installing PEAR on Windows
http://nikic.github.com/2011/12/03/Manually-installing-PEAR-on-Windows.html

Improve Quality and Morale Using Peer Code Reviews
http://www.slideshare.net/SmartBear_Software/improve-quality-and-morale-using-peer-code-reviews

What the Heck Is CSS Specificity? | Design Shack
http://designshack.net/articles/css/what-the-heck-is-css-specificity/

Asshole driven development
http://scottberkun.com/2007/asshole-driven-development/

Simply Testable professional automated front-end web testing
http://simplytestable.com/

CSS Horus | CSS Framework for responsive and mobile websites
http://csshor.us/

Kube CSS-framework for professional developers
http://imperavi.com/kube/

Base – A super simple, responsive framework designed to work for mobile devices, tablets, netbooks and desktop computers.
http://matthewhartman.github.com/base/

Cache is King | High Performance Web Sites
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/10/11/cache-is-king/

The Story of the New Microsoft.com Rainypixels
http://rainypixels.com/words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-com/

Link Dump – December 14, 2012 Edition

The Ruby Toolbox – Know Your Options!
https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/

Categorizing values in JavaScript | Adobe Developer Connection
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/categorizing-values-in-javascript.html

How DRY impacts JavaScript performance // Faster JavaScript executi…
http://www.slideshare.net/mathiasbynens/how-dry-impacts-javascript-performance-faster-javascript-execution-for-the-lazy-developer

WebPerfDays: Performance Tools | High Performance Web Sites
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/10/09/webperfdays-performance-tools/

Guy’s Pod Blog Archive Responsive Web Design Makes It Hard To Be Fast
http://www.guypo.com/technical/responsive-web-design-is-bad-for-performance-there-i-said-it/

10 Things You Didn’t Know Ruby Could do // Speaker Deck
https://speakerdeck.com/u/jeg2/p/10-things-you-didnt-know-ruby-could-do?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email

Free Java Tutorials & Guide | Java programming source code
http://freejavaguide.com/

Introducing Go by Example
http://mmcgrana.github.com/2012/10/introducing-go-by-example.html

Performance Tips for JavaScript in V8 – HTML5 Rocks
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/v8/

No Silver Bullets? Programmers Stack Exchange Blog
http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/no-silver-bullets/

Link Dump – December 7, 2012 Edition

How to Rock a Developer Phone Interview | Palantir
http://www.palantir.com/2012/09/how-to-rock-a-phone-interview/

Firefox Metro Preview for Windows 8 | Future Releases
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/10/04/firefox-metro-preview/

WebGL: How It Works games.greggman.com
http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-how-it-works/

Drawing Things with Box-Shadow Joshua HibbertJoshua Hibbert
http://joshnh.com/2012/08/16/drawing-things-with-box-shadow/

Bruce Lawsons personal site  : On DRM in HTML5
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2012/on-drm-in-html5/

Firefox 16 for developers | MDN
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Firefox_16_for_developers

Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks Feross.org
http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/

Adobe & HTML
http://html.adobe.com/

Bocoup on Air Developing for the Mobile Web – Bocoup
http://weblog.bocoup.com/bocoup-on-air-mobile-dev-boaz-rebecca/

The Most Useful Bookmarklets to Enhance Your Browsing Experience – How-To Geek
http://www.howtogeek.com/125846/the-most-useful-bookmarklets-to-enhance-your-browsing-experience/

Link Dump – November 30, 2012 Edition

Introducing The Jed Toolkit – Alex Sexton
http://alexsexton.com/blog/2012/10/introducing-the-jed-toolkit/

The complexity of user experience Martin Kleppmanns blog
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2012/10/08/complexity-of-user-experience.html

stefankendall.com: Core Values.
http://www.stefankendall.com/2012/10/core-values.html

The State of JavaScript
http://brendaneich.github.com/Strange-Loop-2012/#/

Merge, split, protect, encrypt and mix pdf files online free – Sejda.com
http://sejda.com/

Introduction To Linux Commands | Smashing Coding
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/01/23/introduction-to-linux-commands/

Cropp.me | The easiest and smartest online crop tool
http://cropp.me/

Be nice to programmers
http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/be-nice-to-programmers

Learnable Programming
http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

Pluralsight – Hardcore Developer Training
http://www.pluralsight.com/training/

Link Dump – November 23, 2012 Edition

I’ve been bookmarking less links lately so starting this week I’ll only be posting 10 links. Rest assured the quality of these resources and articles are still the same.

Properties in JavaScript
http://www.2ality.com/2012/10/javascript-properties.html

Javascript Territory – Jster Javascript Catalog
http://jster.net/

Powerful Command Line Tools For Developers | Smashing Coding
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/29/powerful-command-line-tools-developers/

JSApp.US
http://jsapp.us/

10 Excellent HTML5 coding Tools Many Users Dont Know About
http://smashinghub.com/excellent-html5-coding-tools.htm

Helpful JavaScript Patterns | New Relic blog
http://blog.newrelic.com/2012/10/09/helpful-javascript-patterns/

Coder Heya
http://www.coderheya.com/

matthewrobb/six GitHub
https://github.com/matthewrobb/six

Ligature Symbols
http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/

This is how we work with clients elweb
http://elweb.co/stuff/this-is-how-we-work-with-clients/

Link Dump – November 15, 2012 Edition

Ask HN: How does an experienced freelancer get work? | Hacker News
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585435

How do our favorite tech companies make money?
http://rcs.seerinteractive.com/money/

Things you didn’t know about Python // Speaker Deck
https://speakerdeck.com/u/mitsuhiko/p/didntknow

Framework Fight: Zurb Foundation vs. Twitter Bootstrap | Design Shack
http://designshack.net/articles/css/framework-fight-zurb-foundation-vs-twitter-bootstrap/#comment-65098

Chris Granger – All ideas are old ideas
http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/10/05/all-ideas-are-old-ideas/

WebPlatform.org Your Web, documented
http://www1.webplatform.org/

Programming Is the New Literacy | Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/programming-the-new-literacy

Measure Results, Not Hours, to Improve Work Efficiency – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/business/measure-results-not-hours-to-improve-work-efficiency.html?_r=2&

vesln/sourcery GitHub
https://github.com/vesln/sourcery

How to pronounce __proto__
http://www.2ality.com/2012/10/dunder.html

DailyJS: Decorating Your JavaScript
http://dailyjs.com/2012/10/08/decorator/

JSONiq – The JSON Query Language
http://jsoniq.org/

CSS3 vs jQuery Animations – Dev.Opera
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/css3-vs-jquery-animations/

Doctest.js: the humane Javascript test framework
http://doctestjs.org/

AngularUI for AngularJS
http://angular-ui.github.com/

Simple Helper to Extract Values from a String | LakTEK
http://laktek.com/2012/10/04/extract-values-from-a-string/

MySQL Tutorial 1: Overview, Tables, Queries
http://arachnoid.com/MySQL/

Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently? | Hacker News
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626201

Kendo UI Blog Posts > IE10: The Next IE6?
http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/12-04-05/ie10_the_next_ie6.aspx

Programmer Competency Matrix
http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-competency-matrix.html

Essential Javascript: the top five testing libraries | Feature | .net magazine
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/essential-javascript-top-five-testing-libraries

Link Dump – November 1, 2012 Edition

Base CSS | Pasteup | Guardian News & Media
http://pasteup.gu.com/

25 web development tips to boost your skills | Feature | .net magazine
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/25-web-development-tips-boost-your-skills

AppFog vs. Heroku | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/editorials/appfog-vs-heroku/

Numeral.js
http://numeraljs.com/

Pikaday
http://dbushell.github.com/Pikaday/

Little Big Details
http://littlebigdetails.com/page/1

The importance of building a financial buffer Stuff & Nonsense, And All That Malarkey
http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/the-importance-of-building-a-financial-buffer

How Transparent Does a Freelancer Need to Be?
http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/freelancer-transparency/

CSS Lint for Sass & Compass Comcast Interactive Media Labs
http://labs.xfinity.com/css-lint-for-sass-compass

Getting Started with Web Workers | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/getting-started-with-web-workers/

23 October 2012, baked by Leisa Reichelt @ The Pastry Box Project
http://the-pastry-box-project.net/leisa-reichelt/2012-october-23/

MoPad: javascriptrap
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/javascriptrap

Build – Single handedly the best conference of 2009 | Paddy Donnelly
http://iampaddy.com/buildconf/

You Are A Developer, The Internet Is Your Friend
http://wds12.charliegleason.com/

Why clearing Floats is necessary?
http://www.impressivewebs.com/clearing-floats-why-necessary/

Exploring the HTML5 Web Audio: visualizing sound | Smartjava.org
http://www.smartjava.org/content/exploring-html5-web-audio-visualizing-sound

Interview with Jon Ferraiolo | Adobe Developer Connection
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/svg/articles/svg-jon-ferraiolo-interview.html

Responsive CSS Framework Comparison: Bootstrap, Foundation, Skeleton
http://responsive.vermilion.com/compare.php

HTML5, CSS3, JS Demos, Creations and Experiments | CSSDeck
http://cssdeck.com/

How to Create Full-page Animations Using CSS – SitePoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-create-full-page-animations-using-css

Link Dump – October 26, 2012 Edition

50 Free Web-Based Apps and Tools for Web Developers
http://speckyboy.com/2012/10/01/50-free-web-services-apps-and-tools-for-web-developers/

Welcome to TypeScript
http://www.typescriptlang.org/

Web Dev .NET: Don’t Initialize All the Things in jQuery.ready()
http://www.elijahmanor.com/2012/10/dont-initialize-all-things-in.html

Chrome Dev Tools: Markup and Style | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/chrome-dev-tools-markup-and-style/

Modern Web Libraries : Modern Web Libraries reusable libraries directory
http://www.html5libs.com/

Specificity Calculator
http://specificity.keegan.st/

JavaScript: __proto__
http://www.2ality.com/2012/10/proto.html

Getting started with Git
http://daneden.github.com/github-workflow/

Optimizing JavaScript variable access | Luke Wagner’s Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2012/10/02/optimizing-javascript-variable-access/

Idiomatic JavaScript and jQuery
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/15988/trying-to-learn-idiomatic-javascript-and-jquery

5 ways to sniff out online fakers Cloud Computing News
http://gigaom.com/cloud/5-ways-to-sniff-out-online-fakers/

Programming isn’t fun it’s much more than that
http://nop.xxx/ruminations/programming-isnt-fun.html

DevTools Tips and Tricks
http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/devtools-tips-and-tricks/#39

Skin your Chrome Inspector | Darcy Clarke
http://darcyclarke.me/design/skin-your-chrome-inspector/

Software Architecture cheat sheet
http://gorban.org/post/32873465932/software-architecture-cheat-sheet

Tower of Babel: A tour of programming languages // Speaker Deck
https://speakerdeck.com/u/matt_aimonetti/p/tower-of-babel-a-tour-of-programming-languages

Dont Be a Problem Solver – Softarch 97Things
http://97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Don%E2%80%99t_Be_a_Problem_Solver

Thoughts on TypeScript | NCZOnline
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/10/04/thoughts-on-typescript/

Build Your First JavaScript Library | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/build-your-first-javascript-library/

SVG Video Tutorials
http://enjalot.github.com/dot-enter/

Link Dump – October 19, 2012 Edition

Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap. | Bootsnipp.com
http://bootsnipp.com/

Online Compiler & IDE for C, Java, C# and C++ | Compilr
https://compilr.com/

Plan 2014
http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html

7 HTML5 features that you may not know about Aaron Lumsden | Aaronlumsden.com
http://www.aaronlumsden.com/articles/7-html5-features-that-you-may-not-know-about/

CSS3 Snippets for Front-End Web Developers | WebInterfaceLab
http://www.webinterfacelab.com/snippets

jQuery TextExt Plugin
http://textextjs.com/

Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins For Web Developers | Smashing Coding
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/23/useful-javascript-libraries-jquery-plugins-web-developers/

Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins For Web Developers | Smashing Coding
http://mcoding.smashingmagazine.com/useful-javascript-libraries-jquery-plugins-part-2/

Most of What You Know About Interviews is Wrong
http://blog.geekli.st/post/32352223685/most-of-what-you-know-about-interviews-is-wrong

Hands-On Unit Testing With PHPUnit | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/hands-on-unit-testing-with-phpunit/

All About Mocking with PHPUnit | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/all-about-mocking-with-phpunit/

Organizing Enterprise-Level Applications | Nettuts+
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/organizing-enterprise-level-applications/

Will Rails be the new PHP? | Roy Tomeij
http://roytomeij.com/2012/will-rails-be-the-new-php.html

Is a rsum relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/is-a-resume-relevant-in-the-age-of-online-courses-and-open-source-projects/

Fizzbuzz isn’t a coding test | Kapil Kale’s Blog
http://www.kapilkale.com/blog/fizzbuzz/

A Crash Course in Information & Visual Design – Throwww.com
http://throwww.com/a/1q3

DailyJS: JavaScript for Node Part 1: Enumeration
http://dailyjs.com/2012/10/01/js-for-node/

Rethinking caching in web apps Martin Kleppmanns blog
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2012/10/01/rethinking-caching-in-web-apps.html

Why Mozilla Persona is the right answer to the question of Identity – The Lab
http://labs.newsint.co.uk/blog/2012/10/why-mozilla-persona-is-the-right-answer-to-the-question-of-identity/

Fontello – easy iconic fonts composer
http://fontello.com/