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Cleave.js: Input Formatting

Awesome tool I just stumbled across for formatting inputs for a better user experience:

http://nosir.github.io/cleave.js/

 

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Progressive Web Apps are Here

The internets has been waiting for years, but it’s finally here. You can create a web app that feels like a native app on ios or Android. Here is a great overview:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/08/a-beginners-guide-to-progressive-web-apps/

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Diff Checker

I find that pretty often when working with data or fine-tuning a query, or updating some code that I need to compare 2 files. I sometimes use “File Merge” on Mac OS (it’s bundled with Xcode).

Or more recently I’ve been using https://www.diffchecker.com/

Give it a try and see the difference in 10 out of 3,435 rows of data from a query. See exactly what 2 variables changed in the new function someone wrote, etc….

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UX For People with Color Blindness

Great article on how to keep the UI real for those with color blindness (like me)!

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/06/improving-ux-for-color-blind-users/

 

 

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Developer Survey 2016

StackOverflow is out with their 2016 Developer Survey. Great data in there, great to see the growth and trends around the world for web developers and developers of all kinds.

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

 

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Laravel Valet: Easy way to get started with Local Mac development

What an easy way to get started with local development on a Mac! Although I’m really not a advocate for local development, I think there is just too much difference between local and production

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-laravel-valet-for-wordpress-development–cms-26519

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Progressive Web Apps

It really is here, the ability to make your web app feel like a native app. Here are 2 great resources for getting started:

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

 

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Star Ratings

Star ratings are all over the interwebs, but I tried coding some up a few months ago and it wasn’t that easy (at least not to make it cross- browser friendly). Today I stumbled across this nugget and wish I would have found it months ago:

http://lunarlogic.github.io/starability/

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Web Performance Optimization

I’ve always worked hard to optimize all my web apps (client caching, gzip compression, image compression, domain shading, css sprites, etc…). It’s great to see that it really does make a difference. wpostats.com shows the real stats and puts into hard numbers that perfomance does matter.

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Client Collaboration

Collaboration and working with clients has changed a lot in the 10 years I’ve been doing it, and to show that, Assembla crunched the numbers with a great survey:

http://blog.assembla.com/2016-client-collaboration-survey-findings

The findings are spot-on, it’s worth a read.