Pro Git Book – Free online version of a book that I was about to buy? Sign me up.
getURLinfo – "A webservice that when given a URL retrieves useful and visual information about it." From the getFavicon guy. Very cool.
Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery – Helpful.
HTML5 Boilerplate – "A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome."
Fixing Common Browser Issues: Dealing With Key Events – Comprehensive look at key events and how to handle them cross-browser.
Site Development Workflow: Keep it in Code – Pretty comprehensive Drupal development workflow.
On jQuery & Large Applications – "We have to make clear that, in fact, jQuery is but a hammer. When it comes to building these intensively client-side applications, we’re talking about building skyscrapers, for god’s sake. The problems solved by a hammer are the least of our concerns."
Closure Compiler Service – Web version of Google's optimization tool. And an API.
getFavicon – Service to retrieve favicons on the fly. Google has a version too, but this looks promising.
Don’t Get Fireballed – Discussion of WordPress caching/optimization options (specifically Super Cache).
CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold – Some things to think about when developing a mobile site plan.
Mobile Web Optimization Guide – Pretty comprehensive. Nice.
Git from the bottom up – Explains the underpinnings of Git instead of high-level commands.
Creating Triangle Arrows in pure CSS – Helpful trick.
16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme – Helpful reference.
Using Git to manage a web site – Genius.
Git Reference – Clear and comprehensive documentation.
A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos – From the YouTube API blog, you can now load videos in an iframe for better flexibility and extensibility.
Introduction to the Google WebFont Loader – Best approach to load fonts from the Google font directory.
MediaElement.js – Easy to use shiv for HTML5 video. Includes a slick player option.
Add a background image to individual table cells in your email – Quite the hack, but definitely helpful.
Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit – Very cool for quick prototyping of Facebook applications.
Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript – Basic explanation.
How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website – As always, Smashing Magazine is very thorough.
JavaScript Minification Part II – Good for its overview of how minification works.
Your Questions Answered #10 | HTML5 Doctor – This series (and this website), definitely worth following.
Introduction to Chrome Developer Tools, Part One – Good overview of "Firebug for Chrome."
Another must-read is the image optimization series from Stoyan Stefanov and Yahoo. Before reading those articles, I used PNG fixes indiscriminately, employed GIFs way too much, didn’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about the optimum image type when slicing a mockup, and certainly never thought of compressing images beyond Photoshop’s “save for web” feature. The first article in the series, The Importance of Images, along with the prevalence of Yahoo’s YSlow, and more recently Google’s Page Speed, made me realize just how much image optimization actually matters to page performance. I figured I would give you my take on the tips in the series, and thoughts on just how to handle difficult, common, transparency cases.
