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Tuesday is Link Day

Business, teamwork and marketing Interesting article about assessing developer (and designer, I guess) performance: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/assessing-employee-performance-1a8bdee45c1a There’s a new version of the web developers SEO cheat sheet: https://moz.com/blog/seo-cheat-sheet Working with other: the sliding scale of giving a f**k (language warning): http://bit.ly/1Gn8XKc Seth Godin on making faster decisions: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/05/how-to-go-faster.html Beware of calendars: https://medium.com/@monteiro/the-chokehold-of-calendars-f70bb9221b36 “Writing for the web…

Wednesday is Link Day

Here we are again, a lovely set of links for you to enjoy. Performance A beginners guide to high-performance website (free 89-page course): http://gomakethings.com/wicked-fast-websites/ Think you know web performance? Take the quiz: http://www.webspeedgeek.com/quiz/content/home.aspx (but check out the leaderboard, some Very Clever People on there) Open source performance dashboard: http://www.peterhedenskog.com/blog/2015/04/open-source-performance-dashboard/ Performance bookmarklet, Chrome and Firefox extension:…

Saturday is Link Day

For several years I have been sharing links with work colleagues, giving my emails the snazzy name of ” is Link Day!”. The day, of course, is the day I send the email. I have been silly in not also sharing these links on my blog, not because of the thousands of regular reads I…

Spotlight: jQuery plugin

Recently I worked on a website help system, the main feature of which was to highlight particular elements on areas of the page. You know the kind of thing: ‘Click the highlighted search button to search your data’. The designs I was given showed the web page covered by a semi-transparent grey overlay, except for…

Progressive Enhancement

I recently sent this as email to a colleague. You’ll be glad to know we sorted things out :0) — The little chat we had last week about AngularJS has been playing on my mind. As you know I’m not against JavaScript (I love it, and have even written an Open Source JavaScript library) and…

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March 9, 2021, 1:08 pm