Not a lot of people use :after when styling a webpage with CSS. That’s a shame because it’s really powerful! And the best thing is there is really good support for this (pseudo) selector so you can use it everywhere you want.. I created a JSFiddle example to show you how to use this powerful [...]
I think it’s safe to say that revision control is a must have if you are a programmer. In this article I’ll explain what I use.
Repo.js is a light-weight jQuery Plugin that lets you easily embed a Github repo onto your site. As a plugin or library author this is a great way to showcase the contents of a repo on a project page.
This is the easiest way to pause all your Vimeo video’s using JQuery
Last weekend I built something I was thinking about for quite a while. As you probably know I love things that speed up my workflow. I got all kinds of little programs running on my computer which help me to get my work done as soon as posible.. But my hypothesis was; All the tools [...]
I was having issues with my local Apache server. In this article you can read how I fixed this.
Great presentation on how Github scaled their business.
Yesterday a new version of Boilerplate was release, go check it out! Notable changes: cleaner folder structure removed unit-tests folder separate .git repository for build script Chromeframe no longer applied via script. Switched back to the optimized asynchronous Google Analytics updated Modernizr 2.5 updated jQuery 1.7.1 I really like that they cleaned up the project, less is more! http://html5boilerplate.com/
It has been quite a ride… Time to give you all an update! I have been freelancing for almost three and a half years. Half a year ago I was asked to join Fonk, a mobile agency from Amsterdam, as a partner. When I started everything felt pretty good so I decided to pause my [...]
Since I am doing quite a lot of HTML work lately I bought this book from Amazon, and I really like it. If you want to learn about all the new stuff in HTML5 I recommend you read this one!
A few weeks back I read an article about cowboy coding, I want to share it with you because it is amusing and because its quite a good idea. So first of all, what is cowboy coding? “Cowboy coding” is the phrase used to describe the practice of changing code directly on production servers. Babcock [...]
When I am development mode i constantly do command-tab to the browser, where I press command-R. I stumbled upon a solution for this! I have been using it today and it works pretty well! It even compiles Sass, Coffeescript etc.. For more information see: livereload.com
Last friday I worked on getting an Air 2.6 application running on my iPad. Today I want to share with you how to do this. It’s not hard but you have to go through some steps to accomplish this. Please note that to run your AIR application on your iPad you need to have an [...]
I would like to share some things I have learned during the last few years while working as a freelance developer. These are some basic steps I use for almost every project… Use a default folder structure Whenever I start a project, I always start by creating a new folder in my projects folder. The [...]
Last week the new website of Blond Amsterdam was officially launched, I build the (Flash) frontend for this nice website. Let me introduce you to the team: Interaction design: Madebypit. Design: Studio Zilt and Zwarte Koffie. Frontend development: me Backend: D-Sign. This took a while to build (~4 weeks) because of all the little details, [...]