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A better alternative to !important

A more stable and more aesthetic alternative for !important

Crucial stuff for your company’s internal projects

I was musing about what is crucial to make an internal project like Bootstrap from Twitter work.

New download location for Ono List Pager

plugins.jquery.com is down and appears not going to be up for a long time.

MSIE filter styles in Less

A quick tip on how to use MSIE filters in Less without throwing an exception.

Tips for using and debugging of Less CSS code

Less CSS is cool. No doubt about it. But with all those cool advantages like functions, variables and mixins there be some disadvantages as well, right? It took me some time to find a major but really obvious drawback: you cannot debug CSS the way you used to.

Mobile Web Application Best Practices Cards

#Mobile #BestPractices according to the #W3C. A 2 minute read.

CSS3 Loading Animation Loop

Cool CSS3 animations demo. No JavaScript.

Redirect to a mobile website

If you built a mobile website you just automatically redirect mobile visitors on your main website to the mobile version, right?

Considerations on building a frontend codebase

This article is about my thoughts on how to build a solid codebase for your (frontend) web development.

The jQuery plugin Ono List Pager reached version 1.0!

The Ono List Pager, a JavaScript library that creates a paging UI out of HTML list items, is now stable and complete enough to be made public. It can be used to create an animating spotlight on a homepage, but it can also be used to put a lot of information in a small space.

The last resort in CSS debugging

CSS is in essence relatively simple: you point to one or more nodes in the DOM with a rule and apply some styles to it. That is the theory. In practice debugging CSS can be hard sometimes. Most of the time it's because either the code lacks the neccesary structure or you don't have arcane knowledge of browser bugs.

The grey areas of progressive enhancement

Stepping up for the designers here: progressive enhancement is not always in the best interest of your client.

Silk

Another terrific canvas showcase.

Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers

How to call those things you type in like [, { and ~

Keyboard shortcuts

Finally there's a "Create a new folder" shortcut in Windows Explorer): Ctrl+Shift+N. Works only in Windows 7 though :(

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Some tips from Yahoo!

JavaScript Programming Patterns

Different ways of creating JavaScript objects. Like it.

Maximizing JavaScript and Ajax performance

IBM giving some tips and tricks on making faster JavaScript

Word-Wrap: A CSS3 Property That Works in Every Browser

I didn't know this CSS3 property, but I'm definitely going to use this one

Flipping Typical

A tool to do a quick check if a font on your pc is fit to be a webfont. I only miss a font resize. Check http://flippingtypical.com/about.html for *some* info on how to use the site.