Reflections on An Event Apart DC 2013
This post originally appeared on Viget’s Inspire blog. This week, Trevor and I attended An Event Apart DC, the annual design conference roadshow organized by Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. Past AEAs...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts from ConvergeRVA 2013
This post originally appeared on Viget’s Inspire blog. This past weekend, most of the Viget FED team attended the first-ever ConvergeRVA conference down in Richmond, Virginia. In fact, our very own...
View ArticleSass Maps Are Awesome!
This post originally appeared on Viget’s Extend blog. This past weekend at SassConf, the authors of Sass announced the first version 3.3 release candidate of the popular CSS extension language. This...
View ArticleUsing browser-sync with Compass, Jekyll, and Foreman
Building and testing websites in a bunch of browsers and on a bunch of devices can be a real pain. Save a file, flip to a browser, hit reload. Grab a phone or tablet, hit reload. Etc. etc. etc. There...
View ArticleKickstarting your Craft project with Ruby and Rake
This post originally appeared on Viget’s Extend blog. It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Craft, the new CMS by Pixel & Tonic. While ExpressionEngine remains our go-to CMS for most client work,...
View ArticleTips For Implementing Device Assets
This post originally appeared on Viget’s Extend blog. Back in November, Blair wrote a great post about designing device assets. In her post, she details the ins and outs of creating favicons, touch...
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Creating Device Assets for Firefox OS
Earlier today, I posted Tips For Implementing Device Assets over on the Viget Extend blog. In that post, I outline a practical approach to implementing various device assets (favicons, touch icons,...
View ArticleThe Web Is Cake
Or, more specifically, web pages are cake. Here’s why. Think about a cake. Here’s a good one, for example. Your standard birthday cake is made up of three key layers: the cake itself, the frosting,...
View ArticleWhat do you value?
In a recent interview, I asked a candidate what she, as a front-end developer, values. Without hesitation, she answered, “Accessibility.” As she explained her answer, it became apparent she didn’t...
View ArticleUpdate your feed URLs
I’ll be shutting off the old Feedburner feed URL for this site on June 1st, 2014. If you’re currently subscribed using http://feeds.feedburner.com/sixtwothree, please update your feed reader to use...
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