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Tool Of The Week: CSScomb

04. Oct. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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In order to keep your CSS code simple and consistent every developer has his own little rules and styles. Especially when it comes to the order of CSS properties, people's opinions differ. Additionally it is difficult to keep consistency in your code, when your are working at bigger projects and particularly when several developers work together on the same files. CCScomb is a tool that sorts all the properties automatically in a predefined order which is intended to be as close as possible to the choice of a Web developer. Of course you are able to fit the order to your personal needs. CSScomb is available as an online tool as well as add-on for most common code editors.

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Quick Tip: Using Web Inspector to Debug Mobile Safari

03. Oct. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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This news absolutely made my day, so listen carefully. I've been waiting for this feature for what seemed to be a small eternity. Have you ever been in the situation that you had to debug CSS / HTML for an iPhone oder iPad? I have been several times and i can say it sometimes drives you crazy! There have been no good debug tools for these devices… until now! With the release of iOS6 and Safari 6 Apple added a wonderful feature for remote-debugging. It is super easy and just awesome!

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8 jQuery Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

01. Oct. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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Working with jQuery is awesome. Especially when you are not (yet) familiar with all the JavaScript techniques. It is very easy to use! Unfortunately therefor it is also easy to make little mistakes that compromise performance. It is of great importance to think about performance from the beginning in order to make yourself familiar with its behavior for further bigger projects. Smashing Hub has listed 8 jQuery crimes you really shouldn't commit.

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Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text: Free Course!

25. Sep. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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I am a huge fan of Sublime Text, which is my code editor of choice. Jeffrey Way from Nettuts+ thinks the same way and he really knows everything you have to know about this amazing editor. There have been already some articles on Nettuts+ about Sublime Text, but this time Jeffrey has done a whole course on it, including all the tricks you really need to know to perfect your workflow. If you're already a ST addict, take a look if there are some tricks you do not already know. If not, take some time and check it out too. You won't regret it!

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Tool Of The Week: WhatFont

24. Sep. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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As a web-developer or web-designer it is often necessary to analyse websites directly in your browser of choice. Modern ones provide a lot of features to check used HTML, CSS or JavaScript. My favorite browser is Chrome. Unfortunately sometimes it takes too much time to find the used font and its attributes. This is the point where the Chrome extension WhatFont gets into the game. It instantly shows the font and its line-height of a certain clicked headline or paragraph and therefor is an absolutely great time saver and our Tool Of The Week.

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Why you have a broken blog and how to fix it

11. Sep. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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Blogs are great to keep yourself up to date with latest news from the web, wether if you just read them or if you have your own one. Unfortunately a lot of posts get lost in the deep black hole called archive and probably will be never seen again. This is because of the way a blog works. New posts are placed on top where they can be seen immedeatly. Older ones offen do not get attention anymore, but they should. Here are some techniques to draw attention to older posts that are still worth reading.

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Improve Your App’s Performance with Memcached

30. Aug. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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Developing applications for the web is exciting. There are a lot of great frameworks and other tools available to build your first little apps very easily. While they hopefully grow from day to day, you get to a point where your site's performance gets really important and a deciding factor. This is the point where you should think about a caching solution to improve your application's speed. Memcached is such a solution and very popular. It is an in-memory cache, which  speeds up your slow data queries. This article tells you about its advantages and how to use it.

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Learning to Love the Boring Bits of CSS

27. Aug. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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CSS is awesome and especially CSS3 and its new features. There a lot of shiny methods for creating beautiful shadows and rounded borders. But people tend to forget about the "boring" ones that keep everything together behind the fancy front. Peter Gasston, from A List Apart, is giving a summary on most helpful methods and examples on how to use them, as well as an overview of upcoming ones. Take some minutes and see if you're familiar with all of them. It is time to get your personal favorite pseudo-class. Mine is / will be :matches() !

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Responding to the New High-Resolution Web

24. Aug. 2012
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Christoph Rumpel
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Today everything is about designing and developing for different devices. Especially mobile devices and their different formats require a lot of attention. Latest products like The New iPad and others even use a High-Resolution display. But what are these hi-res devices, why do you have to care about it today and how can you do that? This great online presentation by Adam Bradley is answering all these questions!

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Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques

23. Aug. 2012
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Andreas Friedl
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Photoshop professionals already know that there is only one correct way to work in Adobes most used image processing program: "Non-destructive" work means that you only operate on layers in a way that does not change the layer data directly. Layer styles, masks, smart objects and smart filters,... these are all tools which can improve your workflow tremendously. If you use them the right way they will guarantee that the source data will stay untouched and therefore be easy to revise and adjust. Check it out...
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