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Skew, the Frontend Engineer's Misery @ Irrational... →

An interesting look at the problems a frontend developer faces. For me, the best part of the article was in the footnotes: For my purpose there is a distinction between a frontend engineer and a web developer. Within my definition, a web developer is creating an entire product, whereas a front end developer is developing the frontend portion of the product, but other portions are being a...

Apr 29th

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Adventures with Yahoo Pipes .:. Beckism.com →

Some useful discoveries that I made while prepping the beckbits custom RSS feed in Yahoo Pipes.

Apr 26th

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Note to current subscribers

If anyone has subscribed to the beckbits feed already, please unsubscribe and resubscribe at the new Feedburner URL: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beckbits/ Aside from Feedburner being awesome, the burned version of the feed has been tweaked via Yahoo Pipes to offer a better reading experience (direct links to external sites via headlines, explicit designation of permalinks, etc.).

Apr 25th

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Apr 25th

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“[When exporting from Illustrator to Photoshop,] generally in Photoshop if you...”

– Scott Weichert, Just Skins forums

Apr 23rd

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Free Notebook Paper Vector | The Pixlpusher →

Free notebook paper vector drawing; a central part of beckbits’ theme.

Apr 22nd

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Tip: when using Hazel to automatically manage or sort your files, make sure to place your most specific rules first in the list. For example, I’m monitoring my Downloads folder with Hazel using three rules: “label orange if older than one week”, “label red if older than 10 days”, and “move to Trash if older than two weeks”. The “move to...

Apr 22nd

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ScreenCastle | One Click Screencasting →

Allows you to quickly record and upload a screencast straight from your browser; potentially very useful for quick demonstrations. Quality of screencasts is decent, particularly in full screen mode.

Apr 22nd

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zen-coding - Google Code →

Plugins for high-speed markup generation. Currently in a very early state (only support for Aptana and Textmate) and mostly in Russian, but some great ideas.

Apr 21st

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Lighter.js →

Syntax highlighting script using Mootools. Looks promising, although I haven’t had a chance to try it yet.

Apr 9th