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an article about the consequences of working in Silos

web strategies that don't work

An explanation of how exactly && and || works in javascript (which is not exactly as you'd expect).

 A detailed and comprehensive guide on how web browsers work and render pages including order of operations and what exactly tags/styles will do.

Watch the 3 minute video, I'd like to start going through all the different game ideas to filter out what might work for our teams, and try some out here and there at our meetings. OPS would be a great opportunity for this, since we are starting from scratch.

This is was a cool quote from a follow up video I watched from the books author "You find things that you're not looking for, even when your not looking. But if you're not looking for something, then you won't find anything"

Cool project to visually "fingerprint" films to reveal their characteristics. Watch the video to see how it works.

Quick useful tip: Google's changed the way searching works.

As much as I hated the movie, Transformers 3 had some pretty amazing VFX. Here's a short reel showing how much work goes into VFX shots in a big budget Hollywood movie like Transformers 3.

Google's Chrome development team is working on a system to automatically generate passwords, which would help users secure their online identities with passwords that would be diversified across different sites, and are randomized and thus harder to guess.

An interesting Firefox plugin to visualize your passwords and how their related: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/password-reuse-visualizer/

Metro JS is a JavaScript plugin for jQuery developed to easily enable Metro interfaces on the web. This release focuses on Live Tiles, the Application Bar and Theming. It's early in the development phase, but all features should work on at least IE7+(Win/WinPhone), Firefox, Chrome, Android, Opera, and Safari(OSX/iOS).

A playground for your html, css and javascript code. You can use this to create a small experimental code to test across all browsers. You can also share you code with others and work off others code (forking)

Some philosophical points on what it takes to be perceived as an expert

An infographic overview of how Search Engine Optimization works

In-depth article about how javascript works and compares to Dart.

Dart Hello World = 17259 lines https://gist.github.com/1277224

Next version of photoshop might have option to unblur images. And it works pretty well.

Presentation on how Google's self-driving car works.

A forum post asking on ways to improve coding skills.

Working with people far smarter than myself Always listening to what others have to say, regardless if they're junior, intermediate, senior or guru. job title doesn't mean anything. Learning other frameworks/languages, and seeing how they do things, and compare that to stuff that I already know Reading about patterns, best practices, and then examining my old stuff and applying those patterns where necessary Pair programming Add Sticky Note | Remove Deciding TO be a 'Jack-of-all-Trades' never stop learning. Read code written by different people. Write documentation for code written by other people.

How to write modular JavaScript apps for desktop and mobile A work-in-progress by Addy Osmani released for free under a CC-license. My extended thanks to these members of the community for their tweaks and contributions. In this mini-book, I'll be covering a complete run-down of Backbone.js; including models, views, collections and routers.