Backbone and Bootstrap for Beginners
Last weekend I challenged myself to learn about Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap. (What about the robots, you ask? I know, I’ll get back to those soon – I just needed to do this, really.) Having only a weekend day to…
Oooh, Pretty!
In the great battle between whether to start implementing Socket.io or making things pretty, I decided to start with getting my fancy on. The reason? Honestly, it just comes down to the fact that I’ve been staring at a really…
Today’s Discovery: CSS3′s @font-face property
A couple weeks ago, when I first started planning out the re-design of http://raquelvelez.com, I discovered this really neat font: Shadows Into Light. (I may have, in fact, spent near an hour going through dafont.com‘s entire handwriting section, in an…
Prioritizing for Self-Learners
Recently, I’ve been catching myself picking up every single book I can find on web development. From HTML/CSS to jQuery to Ruby/Ruby on Rails to progressive enhancement, there’s just SO MUCH information out there. And, frankly, I want to know…
CSS and Boxes
CSS is pretty easy, actually. It’s just moving boxes around. – A Front-End Dev Friend Yeah, right. Tell that to my tired fingers and eyes. Ok, so maybe he’s not too far off. It really is just moving boxes around. But…
A Few Books to Get Started
So, although I haven’t started reading anything on Ruby, Haml, or Sass, I *have* gotten my feet wet in some crucial topics. The first book, Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte, completely changed the way I thought about the web. …
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