Paul Irish

I've put together all the feeds and blogs that I follow that cover front-end development.
Here is the OPML file: front-end-development-feeds.xml.opml

All the classics like Ajaxian and A List Apart are in here.. but also more technical ninja developers like John Resig, Hedgerwow and Peter Michaux.

If you currently use a RSS aggregator (like Bloglines, Google Reader, or Netvibes) you can import this file right in.
iGoogle won't take an OPML file but you can do each RSS feed individiually.

You can also preview what's in it here: http://www.bloglines.com/public/molecular-frontend-feeds

Paul Irish javascript

// code yanked from the Yahoo media player. Thanks, Yahoo.
if (! ("console" in window) || !("firebug" in console)) {
    var names = ["log", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "assert", "dir", "dirxml", "group"
                 , "groupEnd", "time", "timeEnd", "count", "trace", "profile", "profileEnd"];
    window.console = {};
    for (var i = 0; i < names.length; ++i) window.console[names[i]] = function() {};
}

Paul Irish javascript

Updated 2008.01.28: Great idea from Marc and Hendrik. Very slick.

function concatenate(){
  // return arguments.join('');                      // won't work. arguments is not a real array.
  // return [].splice.call(arguments,0).join('');    // old 'n busted
     return Array.prototype.join.call(arguments,''); // new hotness
}
 
concatenate('good',2,'go');
// ==> 'good2go'

Paul Irish javascript

Firebug is my tool of choice to fiddle with CSS. I'll edit the elements on the page, and then copy my changes back to the .css file. Then save.

If you're in a webapp, refreshing the page could take a while, so here's a great way to reload the freshest copies of the stylesheets. Drag this bookmarklet link to your toolbar:

>>> Refresh CSS <<<

Clicking it will modify any <link rel="stylesheet"> tags and append a timestamp at the end of each href attribute, thereby dropping the cache and grabbing a new one. It's quick and beautiful.

Paul Irish front-end development

In the 10 years that I've seen dialogs like these, I've always clicked "No" or "Restart Later" and the software ALWAYS works. The software installs indicate it's mandatory, but never is it functionally mandatory. Not TortoiseSVN, ISO mounting utilities, not even Microsoft Office; it always works without a reboot.

So why is this pattern so widely adopted?

Paul Irish hmm!