Web Advent 2012

Introduction

Christmas is upon us once again, and it’s time to have a look at what’s under the Web Advent tree. Join us each day as our wonderful authors provide presents of tips, tricks, & tidbits to usher in the new year. Mele Kalikimaka!

Seasons: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

24^th Dec: Be Lazy by Kitt Hodsden

The other day, I went to help a co-worker set up his laptop. When teaching new topics, I’m a big fan of active participation…
23^rd Dec: The Long View by Lachlan Hardy

We who work on the Web, as Noah Stokes wrote in an earlier article, have a privileged opportunity to create things that…
22^nd Dec: Get a Little Uncomfortable by Laura Beth Denker

It must be a small world after all. Walking through a neighborhood, that I neither live in or work in…
21^st Dec: CSS Sliding Panels by Bedrich Rios

I’m here to show you how to create sliding panels using CSS and a class name toggle. Why use sliding panels…
20^th Dec: Take Time to Make Time by Jeff Loiselle

I’m busy. I’m an American living in the twenty-first century in the Northeast. You can go read the statistics…
19^th Dec: The Three Ugly Sisters by Pádraic Brady

The Three Ugly Sisters are three classes of attacks which I’ve tried to highlight in 2012. You might also know them as…
18^th Dec: Node.js with Express.js in Business by Andreas Birkebæk

The fundamental processes behind business and software development are very different…
17^th Dec: Retina Ready by Jackie Balzer

When you get your shiny new retina device this holiday season, will the Internet be ready for you to see all its content in twice the…
16^th Dec: Security in the Round by Chris Cornutt

As a developer, I know it’s easy to get tunnel vision when it comes to security. You look through the lines of code in your…
15^th Dec: More Than a Dot by James Duncan

No one knows if it was a man, or a woman, or a child that first did it, but we do know that about 40,000 years ago…
14^th Dec: Persistent Terminal Sessions by Remy Sharp

Have you ever had a remote terminal session running, only to have your connection drop out half way through a…
13^th Dec: Continuous Deployment Practices by Laura Thomson

I may be a pedant, but I’m here to tell you continuous deployment is a total misnomer. It’s…
12^th Dec: Light It Up with Markup by Patrick Haney

When I started designing for the Web years ago, before the dot-com bubble burst, the term interaction design…
11^th Dec: Landing on Your Feet by Emily Davis

I recently served as an instructor for an online course teaching the fundamentals of the Web. Before class started, we…
10^th Dec: More Code, More Problems by Ed Finkler

About a year ago, I wrote out some principles for web programming in PHP. I called it the MicroPHP Manifesto…
9^th Dec: Dealing with Email Image Blocking by Chesley Andrews

You probably get a lot of email and even more newsletters. My HTML email newsletters are all…
8^th Dec: Make a Difference by Noah Stokes

I remember that particular day, driving home from my job at Apple Computer, talking to a friend on a cell phone…
7^th Dec: The Anti-Spec Movement Is Going Too Far by Tracy Osborn

As a designer, I have nothing against the anti-spec movement. Created in response to…
6^th Dec: PhantomJS by Paul Reinheimer

My, that’s a pretty web browser you’re using, concurrently making requests to various servers, interpreting and rendering the nearly…
5^th Dec: SSH Tips by Lorna Mitchell

SSH is a way to access remote servers via the command line. It is a really fabulous secure communications channel that you can…
4^th Dec: Better Forms for Mobile Users by James Socol

Mobile is a special, fun place to be a web developer. On one hand, pretty much all of the browsers are new…
3^rd Dec: The Gift of Sharing What You Know by Heather Payne

The first time I saw a line of code was probably mid-2009. I had just graduated from university…
2^nd Dec: Going from One to a Million Users by Joël Perras

Web development is a profession that has one of the lowest barriers to entry that I can think of. It requires…
1^st Dec: Debugging Zen by Ben Ramsey

Debugging is perhaps the skill that I find programmers have the hardest time exercising. It is also the most difficult to teach…