Reading List #10

Articles

• Building Web Apps With Yeoman And Polymer [html5rocks.com]
• Introducing a Yeoman Generator For Full-stack Angular + Express Development [tylerHenkel.com]
• Column: A Yeoman Generator Built for Hackathons [movefastbreakthings.ca]
• Working With Angular, Rails and Yeoman [rockyj.in]
• Building Chrome Apps With Yeoman [alolo.co]
• Migration to Jekyll: My Journey to Understanding Yeoman [davidCalhoun.me]
• CoffeeScript Source Maps With Yeoman [mikeFowler.me]
• Why I Generate My Apps With Yeoman [danRistic.com]
• An Interview With The Creator Of The Hoodie Generator For Yeoman [hood.ie]
• Articles In The Wiki [github.com/yeoman]

Slides

• Automating Development Workflow [html5rocks.com]
• Front-end Tooling Workflows [speakerdeck.com/dmosher]
• Modern Workflows For Modern WebApps [slid.es/passy]

Videos

• Introduction to the MEAN Stack with Yeoman, Grunt and Bower [youtube.com]
• 'yo dude’ a talk on Yeoman and Cordova from IBM [youtube.com]
• IBM Worklight generators for Yeoman Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 [youtube.com]
• Intro to Yeoman sub-generators [youtube.com]
• Getting started with Yeoman and generator-webapp [youtube.com]
• Yeoman generator for Twitter Bootstrap [youtube.com]

Generator updates

• Bones – a Yeoman generator for basic web projects [github.com/matt-bailey]
• Generator MEAN – scaffolding for Mongo, Express, Angular and Node [github.com/jrcryer]
• Generator for Cordova [github.com/btholt]
• Genesis Wordpress – WordPress + Vagrant + Multi-env scaffolding [github.com/genesis]
• Generator for Bespoke.js [github.com/markdagleish]
• Generator for Reveal [github.com/slara]
• Backbone generator 0.2.1 is now out [github.com/yeoman]
• AngularJS generator v0.5.0/v0.5.1 out with bugfixes, better livereloading, automatically wire up selected Angular modules [github.com/yeoman]
• Another Yeoman generator for Backbone and RequireJS [github.com/reintroducing]

Reading List #9

• Is HTML Relevant in the Age of Web Apps? – edited transcript of John Allsopp’s Full Frontal 2012 talk

• SVG Fallbacks by Chris Coyier. Good comments.

• Blink: Add support for the object-fit CSS property by Opera’s Morten Stenshorne

• Around the World Wide Web in Eighty Minutes – a fun look at internationalisation capabilities on the Web by Richard Ishida

• Font Hacking – “primer on extracting, deconstructing, altering and replacing letterforms”. With good jokes.

• W3C Launches Web and Mobile Interest Group – “that is chartered to accelerate the development of Web technology so that it becomes a compelling platform for mobile applications and the obvious choice for cross platform development” starring Jo Rabin (John Steed), Marcos Caceras (Mike Gambit), Natasha Rooney (Purdey).

• Responsive Web Design is Solid Gold by Jason Grigsby – “I’m now firmly on the side that there is no mobile context. We have abundant data that shows that people use their mobile devices indoors and for a wide variety of things.”

• How easy is it to hack JavaScript in a browser?

• Daala video compression “Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology.” Hooray! Another video format.

• Semantic data markup: Microdata, yea nor nay? (warning: Google+)

• How well do the HTML 5 replacements for table summary attribute work with current Screen Readers and Browsers?

• W3C: Splash screen for native web apps

• Proposed update to element definition (see my article On citing quotations. Again. for more).

• Hixie on script pre-loading

• “Fuck You” – Brad Frost on deliberately excluding groups of people from the Web

• Mobile operators altering (and breaking) web content by Matthew Somerville

• Resource Priorities – spec including groovy thangs like < img lazyload > (partially implemented in IE11 Preview) and < img postpone >

• Enabling new types of web user experiences – guest W3C blog post by Scott Jenson, a well-known UX designer and creative director

• port.js is a Chrome-(and-Opera!)–to–Safari porting library for extensions

• proposal: replace navigator.mozPay() with primitives – Mozilla’s trying to make a low-level API for payments

• Executive Class – calculating the Myers-Briggs personality type of the London Underground’s Waterloo & City Line

• The Great Language Game Of thousands of languages spoken in the world, here are seventy. How many can you distinguish between? (my score: 800)

Reading List #8

Web Standards

• Does Flexbox Have a Performance Problem? (TL;DR old flexbox does)

• uCSS crawls your website to find unused CSS, duplicate selectors (you can exclude pages/ subdomains)

• From microphone to .WAV with: getUserMedia and Web Audio

• List of Web Accessibility-Related Litigation and Settlements

• On Mobile, Data URIs are 6x Slower than Source Linking (New Research)

• AXR Project – @veosotano’s proposed replacement web stack – XML + HSS (CSS-like with extras) and 1 rendering engine to be used by all browsers (via a plugin for now)