iQ Web Team

Very useful jQuery simulator which lets you use different frameworks and many other options. Especially useful for sharepoint development, because deploying/closing sharepoint is slow in comparison.

Great summary of what is taught in Comp 3350 (Soft. Eng. I)

Excellent discussion on how the browser calculates what style to apply to an element when multiple css selectors apply.

Not a technical article, but a very interesting read about where Google may be going in the near(ish?) future..

FIrefox's javascript performance will apparently be significantly improved by introducing type inference to the JS compiler.

A bunch of cool concepts of new HTML5 and CSS3 features. Includes a short description, brief browser comparability chart, fallback strategies, and real-life examples.

Incredibly cool example of what HTML5 + CSS can do together. Check out the Canvas tab, especially.

A look at web sites 10 years ago, and how the internet dealt with 9/11

Different button designs and animations to create more interactive and useful buttons. Includes many that are in CSS without images.

Describes how to avoid a flash of unstyled content that is usually styled through javascript on initial load. Should be very applicable to us (Zendesk?).

P.S. Yes Thu, we are back to Paul Irish's blog now ;). Maybe John Resig next week.

CSS hacks reference. Good to know, excellent to avoid.

Explains how to target IE without resorting to nasty css hacks. I am considering switching to this over conditional stylesheet(s) (iehacks.css in intra).

A simple tool to generate a number of stylish shadows in CSS3.

This was the link that was in my presentation about vertical alignment.

Two quick and cool examples of adding and manipulating video with Canvas.

A short description of transitioning from small teams, to scrum and some of its basic principals.

Create cool buttons with icons and no images

A quiz to refresh you on some of the basics of css specificity

The problem with liquid layouts, rounding up and down of pixel is not consistent across browsers

Here is a simple idea by Peter G for creating a cheap camera slider using felt, a board and a picture frame. Take a board, wrap and staple some felt around it (fleece will also do). Screw some boards to the bottom to raise it up a bit (so the picture frame doesn't bump the tripod head), affix the wood to your camera plate.