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- A List Apart: Articles: Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video http://t.co/QFbh8fGx
- Responsive News - Resolution Independent Typography http://t.co/2dplxNVb
- Creative Market ~ Handcrafted, mousemade. http://t.co/g0JnKAR2
- Get $5 from Creative Market for awesome design content when you sign up with this special invite link: http://t.co/QYOqB5Vj via @crtvmrkt
- I just entered to win an Amazon $100 Gift Card every year for the rest of my life! http://t.co/QMA809Iu via @appsumo
- Adactio: Journal—Responsible responsive images http://t.co/mqQtF3vy
- Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine http://t.co/tu6A0E4O
- How To Set Up A Print Style Sheet - Smashing Coding http://t.co/BJAGqJ0A
- Getting Started with MongoDB | Nettuts http://t.co/ghvFt8ln
- CSS3 Transitions And Transforms From Scratch | Webdesigntuts http://t.co/r2vHwBPJ
- Check out http://t.co/HuaW763g, a safe place to buy, sell, trade or give to your neighbors — locally and in-person @krrbsale
- Lynx would not be impressed – on semantics and HTML | Christian Heilmann http://t.co/p4HR6KVA
- Color Correcting Photographs Using the Curves Adjustment | Psdtuts http://t.co/vVKeshQn
- Canvas http://t.co/5DOdP3Dl
- Response Times: The 3 Important Limits by ZURB http://t.co/rD5hFm9e
- HTML5 Security Cheatsheet http://t.co/Km1dkT7n
- Pursuing Semantic Value - Smashing Coding http://t.co/fbmOjJEi
- Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value - Smashing Coding http://t.co/5ww7o11o
- the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support (via http://t.co/xwy0Z1AL) http://t.co/3b9hhU1G
- iPod fathers unveil their next project, the Nest Learning Thermostat (hands-on) (via http://t.co/0pjau0H1) http://t.co/g2Jyyp8A
- @egoapp any plans to make a desktop app? or maybe menubar?Oct 27, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @flexibits keep up the good work guys. It's a great job already.
- @flexibits and with that...I purchase Fantasical!
- @flexibits any chance Fantasical will have growl support?Oct 02, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @flexibits any chance Fanstical will have growl support?Oct 02, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- likes relight by androp on Ping http://t.co/vgAfnPFn #iTunes
- @plantbasedapps this may be a dumb question, but do both users have to own/run the app to use @wormlapp and transfer filesSep 23, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Real barbershop shave before the wedding with the Newton men. @ Barbershop Lounge http://gowal.la/c/4HK1a
- Journey, Foreigner and Night Ranger. Epic night! @ Verizon Wireless Ampitheater http://gowal.la/c/4DPE5
- Just started using Droplr, an app for Mac. Check it out at http://droplr.com
- Hey @bagchk I'd like to join now to make a bag about iPhone games or note apps or task apps. Please!Feb 22, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @getcloudapp wondering if you guys are working on your own iOS app?Feb 22, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- just installed #mongodb and feeling accomplished. Not going to lie, this makes way more sense for a front-end dev than MySQL.Feb 21, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Bowling time!!! — at El Dorado Lanes http://gowal.la/c/3AwDw
- Cookie monster, Elmo and Tele all on the same episode...best episode ever!!! http://into.tv/i/o97
- Early Valentines Day dinner with the wife! — at Huntington Beach Beer Company http://gowal.la/c/3xfMH
- Celebrating Mikes 1 year anniversary living in LA with beer, friends and darts. — at The Joker http://gowal.la/c/3uB9c
- Family dinner. — at Florentine's http://gowal.la/c/3u78X
- Of the girl who picked her wedding dress today @ 405W http://instagr.am/p/BZXBI/
- Slept shitty for the second night in a row. Starbucks take me away. — at Starbucks http://gowal.la/c/3tUJd
- Watching #MacGruber with @boominkouman. It's like a slumber party! — at A Permanent Wreck http://gowal.la/c/3tLzM
- Drinks with Leslie, @boominkouman, @jgallen23, @enginerdmel — at Rush Street http://gowal.la/c/3s59n
- Celebration no. 2 — at Demand Media IPO Party http://gowal.la/c/3rv2L
- It's 1pm and 90% of my company is wasted. Loving it. — at Demand Media IPO Celebration http://gowal.la/c/3qFXJ
- Good day at the gym. Now some coffee before starting the day that Demand Media takes over! — at Starbucks http://gowal.la/c/3qzJT
- With @gjunkie shopping for his new TV. — at Best Buy http://gowal.la/c/3pGpC
- Celebrating @jgallen23 birthday! — at ROK Sushi Kitchen http://gowal.la/c/3pnfb
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Status
- I want to join the Freemasons club! Anyone else want to join with me?
- Pull my man card all you want, but I've spent the entire day listening to big band, specifically musicals and I have to say my day has gone by rather pleasant, except for a few things here and there. The only downside I see to listening continually to this is that it makes me miss my grandmother. God bless your beautiful soul Grandma Rathmell. I love you a ton!!!
- Tebow, you're annoying to watch in football. Please stop taking interviews and tv appearances as well. You suck there too!
- I'm watching a friend of mine from college play guitar for B.O.B. on VH1 for a million fans. Same kid we used to get drunk and write all over his face with sharpie when he passed out. JEALOUS!!!
- I usually try to avoid political topics because I realize I don't share the same opinion with anyone, but I'm watching CNN and Obama is suggesting a "small fee on large financial institutions" to fix out housing and finance problem. Seems like a band aid rather than a real, actual, long-term solution! I just don't think the hardworking institutions should be punished. I don't find understand why we insist on punishing the people who have worked their ass of to achieve success of financial security. I know if I were rich I wouldn't want the government forcing to help people I thought were undeserving. Just my worthless 2 cents.
- Watching Singin' In The Rain. They really don't make movies like this anymore and that's just a darn shame.
- Lord I don't normally talk to you, but please do some magic and heal Kate. She's been miserable all week and it's killing me. If you need someone to take the sickness from her please pick me.
- Why must people insist on holding the headphone mic up to their mouth on their iPhones? Unless you've found a way to bend the sound waves from your voice, the mic will pick up without you looking like an idiot.
- Let me preface this by saying there's nothing wrong with a stay-at-home wife. But with the entire "Housewives..." series, Mob wives, basketball wives and now baseball wives, when did the bitchy-jobless-talentless-women-who-only-got-famous-because-she-married-someone become celebrated?! When can we start airing television shows that promote women as independent, hard-working, family-driven?
- So I've started waking up at 5am in order to increase my productivity. Now, normally I wake up at 6am and feed Ralph because that's when he likes to eat. But since waking up at 5am, he will now hang out for 30 mins with me in my office and then put himself back to bed. So funny!
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Posts
We do like vendor prefixes. They give us access to bleeding edge CSS properties, and make our sites look cool. But there’s a serious problem: non-webkit vendors are giving serious consideration to implementing the -webkit prefix to a number of CSS properties.
The CSS Working Group is recently discussing the very serious problem that vendor prefixes have become. We have reached a point where browsers are seriously considering to implement -webkit- prefixes, just because authors won’t bother using anything else. This is just sad. Daniel Glazman, Christian Heilmann and others wrote about it, making very good points and hoping that authors will wake up and start behaving. If you haven’t already, visit those links and read what they are saying. I’m not very optimistic about it, but I’ll do whatever I can to support their efforts.
In his The Future of CSS talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2012 Eric Meyer shared the what new CSS specifications are under development, partially available, and can be used today. Here are my notes from his talk:
The most important thing that 2011 taught me about web design is that physical context of use can no longer be assumed by platform, only intentional context can. For the past couple of years, we have gotten into the habit of presuming that mobile means on-the-go, desktop denotes a desk, and tablet is on the toilet. But increasingly the lines are blurring on where devices are being used and how they’re being used in unison. This year I have learned to see devices as location agnostic and instead associate them with purpose—I want to check (mobile), I want to manage (desktop), I want to immerse (tablet). This shift away from objective context toward subjective context will reshape the way we design experiences across and between devices, to better support user goals and ultimately mimic analog tools woven into our physical spaces.
If you’ve spent any time building responsive websites with fluid grids, you will have encountered the shock of seeing your beautiful portrait layout distort when viewed in landscape mode (or vice-versa.)
Detecting battery level in a device or computer can help you inform the user of the current status. Within Mozilla’s WebAPI, we have the Battery API to offer that possibility.
css3 speech bubble question: for the “triangle“‘s border color, how can I set it to whatever its parent div’s bgcolor is automagically?
The Pointer Lock API recently landed in Chrome Canary and the Dev channel, all rejoice! Wait, what? You haven’t heard of the Pointer Lock API? Well, in a nutshell, the Pointer Lock API makes it possible to write proper first-person shooters for the web.
At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the “terminal.” The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and ’70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the main way to interact with a computer. It’s also known as the command shell, or simply “shell.” Windows has one, too, but it’s called the “command prompt” and is descended from the MS-DOS of the 1980s.
At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the “terminal.” The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and ’70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the main way to interact with a computer. It’s also known as the command shell, or simply “shell.” Windows has one, too, but it’s called the “command prompt” and is descended from the MS-DOS of the 1980s.
IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user’s local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view database schemas, object store content, and index details.
CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance their sites. For example, the Windows 8 Metro style Start page uses subtle 3D transforms to highlight pressed tiles, as shown below.
The idea with the Vibration API is to be able to give the user a notification, in a game or other use case, by telling the device to vibrate. It accesses the native vibrator and tells it how long it should vibrate.
steps() is a relatively new addition to the CSS3 animations module. Instead of interpolating the values smoothly, it allows us to define the number of “frames” precisely. So I used it to create headers that have the well-known animated “typing effect”:
Taken together this means, JavaScript can be used to develop a network application and server, store and retreive data from databases, interface with third party data and services, and build a software user interface. When you consider how many Web developers are already familiar with JavaScript, the story gets even more interesting…
When you’re applying for a new job, you often have to write a cover letter to accompany your resume and serve as an introduction to who you are. These letters must be brief yet compelling so you don’t require much of the reader but still appear unique. This can be pretty tough, but if you utilize the principles of good storytelling and concise writing you can put together a letter that won’t get lost in the pile. Here’s how.
Writing efficient and responsive websites are important to providing a great user experience. Some website layouts cause inefficient rendering, hurting the experience of the users that we try so hard to please.
If you are having trouble with something while building a webpage, the most helpful thing you can possibly do is start building a reduced test case. “Trouble” could be anything: the CSS isn’t doing what you think it should, the JavaScript isn’t behaving right, there are cross-browser issues, etc. In the process of creating a reduced test case, you will either:
Here’s the inevitable compatibility table that goes with my viewport research. It treats the viewports themselves as well as some related items.
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- SummaryI'm a very energetic and motivated, self-taught web developer with a passion for all things related to technology, specifically regarding the web, and how it can impact peoples lives. I love being able to come to work knowing that I'll have an impact on someone's life every day.
Technically, I specialize in HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Microdata for my front-end stack, while using PHP & Wordpress for my CMS/backend needs. I'm obsessed with web standards, microdata, performance-driven development, and large-scale code structures/frameworks. I'm always interested in developing large-scale sites working alongside talented individuals.
Other specialties include browser compliance (IE6+, Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Opera, Safari), HTML email production, as well as media production in both audio production/recording,video production and photography.
In my personal time, if I'm not catching up on my RSS feeds about technology, I'm reading books about it. I'm also really in grossed with data mining and collection. I spend a significant portion of time collecting stats and information regarding my behavior and patterns of living. I also enjoy surfing through Kickstarter, looking for some project to back or gadget to buy.Specialties: Technologies I'm proficient: - HTML (including new aspects of the specification currently being released) - CSS (from version 2.1 and up) - Javascript - Microdata, RDFa, Microformats - PHP (Kohana, Smarty frameworks) - Wordpress framework (custom taxonomies, templates) - Git, SVN, Perforce, TFS, Mercurial - Photoshop - Browser compliance - Web standards Technologies I'm familiar (have worked at least 6 months more) - Node.js - Python (including Django framework) - ASP.netExperience- Sept 2008 - PresentUser Interface Engineer / Demand MediaDevelopment of user interfaces for brand name social media sites. My current and primary responsibility includes the production of the HTML/CSS/Javascript framework with a focus on efficiency, performance, web standards, semantics, search engine optimization for eHow.com. Extremely proficient in building scalable codebases for use in large-scale dynamic websites.
Some of the sites I've worked on in the past include:
- Demand Studios (demandstudios.com)
- Cracked (cracked.com)
- LiveStrong (livestrong.com)
- Answerbag (answerbag.com)
- Expert Village (expertvillage.com) - Jan 2005 - PresentOwner / A Permanent WreckWeb development, brand development, specializing in HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microdata, SEO, custom Wordpress templates. Also proficient in Media production, both audio production/recording as well as video production and photography.
- Dec 2006 - Oct 2008Mac Genius / Apple, Inc.iPod, iPhone & Mac hardware support, maintenance.
- Jan 2005 - Sept 2008Executive Assistant/Bookkeeper / Lisa Newton, E.A.Technical support of a Windows networked environment, software installation, technological advisor for purchases. Bookkeeping, as well as office management.
- Jul 2006 - Dec 2006Runner / NRG Recording ServicesResponsibilities include invoicing, running errands for clients, answering phone calls, maintenance of recording facilities, file management.
- Aug 2005 - Jul 2006Runner / Paramount Recording StudiosResponsibilities include scheduling employees, invoicing, running errands for clients, answering phone calls, maintenance of recording facilities, file management. Also worked as 2nd Engineer on sessions, such as Juvenile. Recorded and mixed various professional projects
- Jun 2005 - Mar 2006Department Manager / Guitar CenterResponsible for running and maintaining the department and its employees with duties including scheduling, sales, merchandising, training, and making sure the department hits sales goals. Continually number 1 salesman in the store in Gross Profit
- Apr 2001 - Dec 2003Intern / Nitro RecordsHandled all interns, cold calls to record stores, market research, listening to, cataloging, organizing, recommending demos to A&R, front desk/receptionist duties.
Education-
2002 - 2004University of Southern California - Marshall School of BusinessBachelor of Science in Music Business
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2001 - 2002Citrus CollegeCertificate in Recording Arts & Sciences
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1999 - 2001Fullerton CollegeAssociate of Arts in General Studies
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1998 - 1999California State University-SacramentoPhysical Therapy
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1994 - 1998Ontario High SchoolDiploma in French, History, English, Calculus
Activities: AP French, AP History, AP English, AP Calculus, Choir, Varsity baseball for 2 years, Varsity Water Polo for 1 year, Freshman football
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Honors:Collegiate Baseball Scholarship Dean's List 5 years Employee of the Month (eHow.com, 2 months) Inspirational Employee of the Quarter (eHow.com, 4th Quarter/2010)
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Interests:new technology, gadgets, data mining/collection, Kickstarter projects, web standards, html/css specs, music, movies, reading program manuals, education,
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Recent Tracks
- The Worry Song [From Anchors Aweigh] by Gene Kelly/Jerry the Mouse
- For Me and My Gal [From for Me & My Gal] by Gene Kelly/Judy Garland
- I Like Myself [From It's Always Fair Weather] by Gene Kelly
- I Got Rhythm [From An American in Paris] by Gene Kelly
- Singin' In The Rain [from Singin' in The Rain] by Gene Kelly
- Steppin' Out With My Baby [From the Easter Parade] by Fred Astaire/Lyttle Sisters/Mel-Tones
- A Couple of Swells [From Easter Parade] by Fred Astaire/Judy Garland
- Triplets [From The Band Wagon] by Fred Astaire/Jack Buchanan/Nanette Fabray
- That's Entertainment! by Fred Astaire/India Adams/Jack Buchanan/Nanette Fabray/Oscar Levant
- Bouncin' the Blues [From The Barkleys of Broadway] by Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers
The DoorsSick Of It AllLagwagonMos DefSquad Five-OFaith No MoreYou Me At SixOur Last NightKissM83H2OVearaSilversteinMac MillerDel tha Funkee HomosapienMatt SkibaRoyal Crown RevueMotörheadEvergreen TerraceAtmosphereWe Are The In CrowdHieroglyphicsLetlivePorno for PyrosSay AnythingThe Ready SetThe Madden BrothersJames BrownMinus the BearFurthermoreSwimming With DolphinsMxPxFuneral For A FriendDropkick MurphysGene KellyDrakeGym Class HeroesHollywood UndeadCommonThe RootsBlack Eyed PeasAesop RockRattBlack Label SocietyMF DoomSkrillexGoldfingerGuns N' RosesBracketFabulous Disaster- 4 plays
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