JR: Tech skills to learn - JQuery Mobile development progressive enhancement responsive design CSS/CSS3 HTML/HTML5 JavaScript GitHub Testing Curl Sites to read/study Helpful articles: ABC: Always Be Coding Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree Senio... more>>
- Oct 09, 2013 - #programming #design

JR: Dieter Rams - Ten principles for good design - Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises. Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an impor... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #design #blog_jr

JR: Plain Dealer newspaper downsizes due to changes from print to digital - July 31, 2013 The de-newspaperization of America reporters who work for the Plain Dealer of Cleveland -- an iconic name in American journalism, a newspaper that's published as a daily since 1845 and won a lot of awards over the years -- were ordere... more>> 5 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #media #web #technology #programming #design #education #business #blog_jr

JR: More people reading news on tablets - No surprise to me. The tablet is by far my favorite reading device for long reads. For long periods of information consumption, I prefer the tablet over printed paper, printed books, laptops, TV, and smartphones. Aug 12, 2013 pandodaily article Why ... more>> 5 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #design #media #tablet #email #tv #web #blog_jr

JR: Facebook mobile lessons that may apply to media - August 2013 ijnet.org story Lessons for news organizations from Facebooks mobile success The social networking behemoth's mobile conversion should be a wake-up call for media companies and news organizations, mobile expert Cory Bergman wrote in a r... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #media #mobile #design #blog_jr

JR: Ideas for future media - Good info in this August 2013 article: Justin Smith, the new CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is emerging as one of the trailblazers. His track record at The Economist, The Week and, most recently, The Atlantic suggests a willingness to embrace new ... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #media #web #design #blog_jr

JR: Major Junco.css breakpoints - Determining primary breakpoints in my CSS. Top-down or bottom-up? Today's thinking is mobile-up (min-width), but I've seen designers use the desktop-down approach (max-width). Mobile-up is suppose to create simpler and easier to maintain CSS, but... more>>
- Sep 30, 2013 - #junco #css #design

JR: CSS for opening paragraph of text - This was commented out in the junco.css file, so I removed it, but I'm saving it here. This alters only the opening paragraph of text on a blog post except in IE8. The yellow background was used for testing. # content p:nth-child(2) { font... more>>
- Sep 26, 2013 - #css #design

JR: CSS, HTML, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Typography, Accessibility, and Responsive Design Info - #nodejs - all things Web-related (except Perl is not listed, of course) - web page/browser testing good, basic site design to study that uses bootstrap and jquery: - node.js framework - Intention.js offers a light-weight and clear way t... more>> 6 min read
- Sep 25, 2013 - #nodejs #css #html #javascript #responsive #design

JR: Reuters' former Next Web system - Sep 19, 2013 - Nieman Journalism Lab - Reuters nixes Next: Failed redesigns and the challenge of expanding a digital audience May 2013 story May 2013 Every page is your homepage: Reuters, untied to print metaphor, builds a modern river of news Dav... more>> 5 min read
- Sep 19, 2013 - #media #design #programming #api #json

JR: Toledo area tech orgs - Digital Agency - "Were strong proponents of the responsive design and mobile first movements." Events OpenHack Toledo Wednesday, September 18, 2013 from 710pm Venue: Seed Coworking 25 South Saint Clair Street Toledo, OH 43604, About: Openh... more>>
- Sep 09, 2013 - #toledo #web #technology #programming #design

JR: Aug - Sep 2013 discussions about Progressive Enhancement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6316516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320948 Related: Great book and design shop: Designing with Progressive Enhancement #design - #programming - #javascript
- Sep 07, 2013

JR: Interesting reads from 10-plus years ago at theobvious.com - Open Question: What would you do with RSS Stories and Tools A MetaFilter Proposal September 11, 2001 The Next Usenet The way I see it, we already have about half of the solution implemented. First, there seems to be an almost endless suppl... more>> 19 min read
- Aug 23, 2013 - #history #web #programming #rss #forums #design #blog_jr

JR: Possible to-do item - Author Marks - highlight parts of text. i guess as an alternative to simply bolding or italicizing the text. #blogging #writing #design https://github.com/mattgemmell/author-marks #junco #todo_later #javascript #design #writing #programming
- Jul 30, 2013

JR: CSS media queries - width versus device-width - In CSS media the difference between width and device-width can be a bit muddled, so lets expound on that a bit. device-width refers to the width of the device itself, in other words, the screen resolution of the device. Lets say your screen's resol... more>> 1 min read
- Jul 30, 2013 - #css #design #responsive