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Automating your front end development workflow
We all have a workflow. In fact, we all have many of them. Human beings are creatures of habit. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes our use of intuition to remember the...
View ArticleInvaluable command line tools for web developers
A basic overview of Curl, Siege and Ngrep, all tools that come in handy for web devs. Invaluable command line tools for web developers.
View ArticleDesigning For and Supporting Older Users
If the user is rather more ‘experienced’ in life and on the other side of middle age, it’s quite easy for us to attribute an error to their age rather than say their actual cognitive ability. But is...
View ArticleFour ways I’ve used PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a program that gives you headless interactions with a browser. Essentially it’s a fully scriptable web browser. I’ve found it to be a valuable tool and have thus far used it four different...
View ArticleArchitecture is…
architecture is the art of simplification.complexity arises from failure to grok the big picture and lack of ownership. or incompetence. — the tao of stoo (@the_tao_of_stoo) July 31, 2012
View ArticleFailing Gracefully | UX Magazine
In the process of Error -> Recognition -> Adjustment, we must do two things: Provide helpful error responses throughout the application Make errors seem less like failures on the user’s end and...
View Articledcjq[16] – Tools for Automatting your front end development workflow
I reprised my talk from WordCamp Boston 2012 at the 17th DC jQuery Meetup. It wasn’t recorded, but you can check out: The slides from my presentation A post where I go over most of the content I...
View ArticleThe Post-PSD Era – A Replacement for Mockups
First, I would go read these two articles. The first one, by Brad Frost, identifies many of the problems and traps of creating mockups with Photoshop. The Post-PSD Era. The second, by Dan Mall, points...
View Articleepeli/underscore.string · GitHub
Javascript lacks complete string manipulation operations. This an attempt to fill that gap. via underscore.string · GitHub. One of the most useful libraries for me is Underscore String. It has a lot of...
View ArticleLibrary’s to play with
I’ve starred a bunch of libraries on Github lately and look forward to giving them a spin when I get a chance. Anyone played with any of these yet? Stately Stately is a symbol font that makes is easy...
View ArticleIntroducing Punchcard.py
If you haven’t noticed, I like punchcard graphs. I like them so much, I have a script that to generate them. I’ve now released this script for everyone to use. Punchcard.py is simple to use and I...
View ArticleSpeaking at AccessU on Open Source and Accessibility
Next month I’ll be speaking at AccessU on Open Source Tools for Building Accessible Websites. I’m excited to share my love of two things: Open Source Software and Accessibility. Accessibility to me is...
View ArticleAaron’s Rules for Better Meetings
Meetings are Toxic. One of the most shared links among tech teams. In general, developers realize that meetings are not the place to get work done. In order to make meeting suck less, I’ve come up with...
View ArticleA Crazy Idea…
I just submitted a proposal to a WordCamp for a talk I’m calling “Aaron Struck by Lightning”. It is an experiment in challenging myself and in giving real time choice to the audience as to what they...
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Profiling WordPress made easy with Varying Vagrant Vagrants
Varying Vagrant Vagrants provides a setup of WordPress that is ripe for you to start profiling the PHP WordPress and your themes and plugins runs. The combination of xdebug, Webgrind, and a simple...
View ArticleAccessability Camp Bay Area 2014
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be a part of the inaugural Accessibility Camp Bay Area 2014. I’ll be leading a session entitled “Web Accessibility on a Time Budget”. We will be discussing how to...
View ArticleChanges should happen in Code, not in UI
If you are deploying your WordPress site, it generally doesn’t make much sense to have to go in and setup changes when you push the newest version live. When you push to production, production should...
View ArticleAggregate Multiple Log Files From Multiple Servers
The majority of the time I need to analyze logs across multiple servers, I use logstash. Sometimes though I want to aggregate the actual files on the server and go through them myself with awk and...
View ArticleTesting for Web Accessibility in 60 Seconds
You want to make your website more accessible, but you don’t know where to start. If you have 60 seconds, I can help. via David A. Kennedy. Some great tips on how to do super simple, yet super valuable...
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Color Is Based on Surrounding Color
“The redness isn’t a property of the apple. It’s a property of the apple in combination with a particular lighting that’s on it and a particular observer looking at it.” via These X’s Are The Same...
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