Post Archive
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HTML5 & CSS3 on the Appalachian Trail
We’re very excited to announce that our flagship training series, Retreats 4 Geeks, is returning in 2011! We’ll be kicking things off April 8th with 3 days of HTML5 and CSS3 with Eric Meyer and our own Aaron Gustafson.
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Thank you for a wonderful 2010!
As we near the end of our 10th year (we can hardly believe it’s been a decade already!), we wanted to take a few moments to thank you—our clients, our partners, and our friends—for continuing to challenge, inspire, and employ us.
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The Challenges and Freedoms of Creating a Chrome App
As Aaron mention last week, we recently developed a Chrome App for wikiHow.com; in reality though we built a modern web app that leveraged many features of HTML5 and CSS3.
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We Built a Chrome App
Yesterday saw the launch of the Chrome App Store and, along with it, an app we created called the wikiHow Survival Kit.
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Genius Design: Users are Humans, Too
Attending Web Directions USA in Atlanta last week gave me a healthy dose of the open web, from IA to data organization to HTML5 & CSS3, but what struck me the most were presentations about interface design strategies.
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Dr. StrangeWeb or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HTML5 and CSS3
Tell me if this sounds familiar: “HTML5 and CSS3 do not have enough browser support to start using them today.” Or, how about this one: “We still have to support IE6, so using advanced CSS techniques would be a wasted effort.”
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Honored
Late last week, the nominees for the 2010 .net Awards were announced and I was amazed to find myself nominated for not one, but two awards.
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Be a good localStorage neighbor
While working on the client-side caching mechanism in eCSStender, I realized the dangers of
localStorage.clear()
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Brooke Valentine’s Celebrity Girl Fight Game
If you made something that was used by over Ten Million people, would you/it be a success?
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Give a hoot
As any competent JavaScript knows, it’s not cool to litter the global namespace with variables, functions, and the like. Occasionally, however, even closures won't help you trap a given variable.