[open tabs] some reading I did lately and you can now, too
Saturday, January 7th, 2012 at 2:15 pm- Nick Bradbury (of Homesite Fame) has a great piece on hateful hiring, based on 37 signal’s ‘Why we don’t hire programmers based on riddles and parlor tricks’ and I can do nothing but applaud and agree. I find it insulting as a developer to be asked to go on a whiteboard in an interview and show some clever pseudo code. We have our stuff on GitHub and online, check it before you invite me
- NASA chose to go open source with some of their code and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to take part
- Vexflow brings sheet music notation to the browser using Raphaël
- Test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank has some good tips on exactly that. I find the most annoying thing to be handling all the different chargers. Can has standard cables, please?
- FluidApp reminds me of Mozilla Prism – run any web site as a native OSX app instead of in a tab
- Why the movie industry can’t innovate and the result is SOPA is an interesting history lesson on how Hollywood just doesn’t get technology
- Michelle Levesque posted quite a few Why this skill posts about skills needed to be a web maker. Nice pattern style approach there
- An In Depth Analysis of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility is a very good read if you wondered about subtitling and captioning in HTML5 video
- Sevenly have a nice idea – sell T-Shirts to bring money to charitable causes and advertise them at the same time
- Cross Browser HTML5 Progress Bars In Depth is a good overview about this not enough used element
- Animating with sprite sheets has some good tips on saving HTTP requests and not having to worry about images being loaded or not
- What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support – the future is bright
- An interesting proposal to the CSS working group to detect if scripting is enabled with a mediaquery
- A plea for progressive enhancement shows just how wrong you can go on mobiles when you think you do things right with responsive design
- The Mozilla event menu is going to be a very handy decision tree to see what events are worth your time and which really are just nice to have
- Codeyear by codecademy is a nice idea – send people some code exercises each day
- On the topic of codecademy and other “get you started quickly” resources, there’s a my thoughts on codecademy post on O’Reilly – also check the comments, some very good points in there