Web Directions 2014 Reflections
I’ve just returned from Web Directions 2014 in Sydney. Overall, it was a great experience, with some valuable take-aways. I’ve jotted down a few of my thoughts around the conference — and
CSSMin updated
I’ve updated my CSSMin project with a couple of new features and bugfixes. Download or fork it on GitHub! What is it? CSSMin takes your CSS file and strips out everything that’s
Theme update (again!)
And so, for the third time this year, I’ve completely re-themed this site. Taking a very different tack from the last theme, I’ve tried to keep this one as simple as possible,
Input elements that fill their container
Previously, this post advocated the use of “text-indent” on a padding-less, border-less, 100% width input. This works, but it’s quite clunky, and old versions of IE don’t support text-indent, so it just
CSS Columns
In this post, I will walk through the new columns specification that arrived in CSS 3. I will show you the current implementation state of columns in the four major rendering engines:
CSS minifier and alphabetiser
Update: This project is now hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/barryvan/CSSMin/ There are quite a few CSS minifiers out there, which can bring the raw size of your CSS files down substantially. There are,
New theme!
I’ve finally got around to replacing the placeholder theme I had on the site. The new theme that I’ve made is much cleaner, simpler, and fresher. This new theme is built around
Web developer tools
In this post, I’ll outline some of the web developer tools available in the major browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. This is a wholly subjective post, based on my experience
Geany IDE: Tango dark colour scheme
Now on GitHub I’ve decided to host this theme on GitHub, in the hopes that it will be easier for people to contribute, modify, and extend it. Head over to the GitHub