From the CSS Day Conference. This talk will showcase a series of obscure CSS fun facts, such as CSS syntax gimmicks and quirks, weird tricks that involve CSS in one way or another, and security vulnerabilities that are enabled by (ab)using CSS in unexpected ways.

Start with the understanding that contracts benefit both parties. Generally people go into a business arrangement with the best of intentions and a lot of assumptions. A contract makes those assumptions explicit by documenting the terms of engagement clearly.

What newsroom design shops have needed is a renewed interest in research and development, and that’s exactly what these pieces are delivering.

A great explanation of what Blink is and what it means

And even though not all current browsers make use of progressive jpeg’s progressive rendering, the ones that do really benefit, and we get file size savings across the board. It’s our best option today and we should use it. Progressive jpegs are the future, not the past.

A list of ampersands.

Manually add a user to WordPress if you don't have an admin account login but you do have access to the database.

Some good tips for getting started with Sublime Text 2 and using its many features.

Thats it you now have the native AMP stack running ontop of the Mountain Lion.

I think it’s important to publish what you learn. There’s really no school for front-end development. You can’t go to a university for a JavaScript degree or a class about how browsers work. Most of us learn from blogs and Twitter. Early in my career, I learned a bunch of things whenever I worked on a project, but I never told other people about them. So my general advice is to publish what you learn, share with the community, and collaborate on projects that help move the community forward.

United States state shapes as a font. A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element.

Mixed into a story about the author trying to learn to program.

‘The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.’

They are 32bit PNGs, each have their own official shadow treatment, and no background matte color.

‘Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are.’

As Paul Irish put it, ‘Some of the finest research and writing about HTML & CSS & JS.’

‘This is a simple trick to overlay a grid or a mock-up over a page you're styling. It will also allow you to edit content directly in the browser to see how your layout behaves depending on various lines of text.’

DesignBombs is an online publication that aims to provide well-researched guides, in-depth tutorials, exclusive deals, and other useful content.

Change the tap highlight color in WebKit Mobile-using devices (many of them).

‘I’m asked sometimes for advice on building an internet presence, and I usually have to fumble for an answer ± because I haven’t pursued any particular strategy beyond the glaringly obvious: create original, relevant content repeatedly.’

The essentials of being an effective, successful, and professional designer.

Looks at your CSS and tells you what's wrong with it.

“The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 35 best practices divided into 7 categories.”

Return to this. A good set of standards, including some things that I wasn't aware of and would like to implement.

“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.” … “Worse is when the people doing the complaining also make software or web sites or iPhone applications themselves. As visible leaders of the web, I think there are a lot of folks who could do a favor to younger, less experienced people by setting an example of critiquing to raise up rather than critiquing to tear down.”

“A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width and height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.”