padolsey

// ----------------------------------------------------------
// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
//     ie === undefined
// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
//     ie === 7; // IE7
// Thus, to detect IE:
//     if (ie) {}

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

malarkey

When times get tough and people get nasty, you’ll need more than a killer smile. You’ll need a killer contract.

Used by 1000s of designers and developers Clarify what’s expected on both sides Helps build great relationships between you and your clients Plain and simple, no legal jargon Customisable to suit your business Used on countless web projects since 2008

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pixelhandler

#!/bin/sh

# Called by "git push" after it has checked the remote status,
# but before anything has been pushed.
#
# If this script exits with a non-zero status nothing will be pushed.
#
# Steps to install, from the root directory of your repo...
# 1. Copy the file into your repo at `.git/hooks/pre-push`
# 2. Set executable permissions, run `chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-push`

sarahmonster

USE DBNAME_LOCAL;  
UPDATE wp_EXT_options SET option_value="http://LOCALURL:8888" WHERE option_name="siteurl";  
UPDATE wp_EXT_options SET option_value="http://LOCALURL:8888" WHERE option_name="home"; 

PaulKinlan

(function() { 
  var CSSCriticalPath = function(w, d, opts) {
    var opt = opts || {};
    var css = {};
    var pushCSS = function(r) {
      if(!!css[r.selectorText] === false) css[r.selectorText] = {};
      var styles = r.style.cssText.split(/;(?![A-Za-z0-9])/);
      for(var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
        if(!!styles[i] === false) continue;
        var pair = styles[i].split(": ");

hatefulcrawdad

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// A More Modern Scale for Web Typography
// Based on this article: http://typecast.com/blog/a-more-modern-scale-for-web-typography
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$body-font-size: 1em !default;

// Adjusts body typography to be default
// for each browser.
@mixin reset-body-font-size($font-size: 100%, $size-adjustment: 0.5) {

brianarn

// A simple object with some methods,
// which throw errors when bad arguments are passed.
var maths = {
  square : function (value) {
    // Validity checking
    if (arguments.length !== 1) {
      throw new Error('square: Requires one and only one argument');
    }
    if (typeof value !== 'number') {
      throw new Error('square: Requires numeric argument');

tsiege

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scottjehl

I wanted to figure out the fastest way to load non-critical CSS so that the impact on initial page drawing is minimal.

TL;DR: Here's the solution I ended up with: https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS/

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For async JavaScript file requests, we have the async attribute to make this easy, but CSS file requests have no similar standard mechanism (at least, none that will still apply the CSS after loading - here are some async CSS loading conditions that do apply when CSS is inapplicable to media: https://gist.github.com/igrigorik/2935269#file-notes-md ).

Seems there are a couple ways to load and apply a CSS file in a non-blocking manner: