Future of YUI CSSPosted on Published February 16, 2013December 8, 2012 by Tilo I’m a little late on this, but my smaller talk at YUIConf got released on YUI Theater a few days ago. Most of the talk is on skinning YUI widgets and it’s presented very eloquently by Jeff Conniff. I jump in at the end and give a brief introduction to the YUI Responsive Grid Builder […]
Colorful YUI3 TabviewPosted on Published October 21, 2012 by Tilo Here’s something I hacked up quickly today. I’m not a fan of the default YUI3 Tabview skins, so I tried to make more modern. Check out the demo.
-ms-touch-action in IE10Posted on Published February 16, 2013October 20, 2012 by Tilo If you’re optimizing your website for IE10 on tablets, get ready to deal with -ms-touch-action. This is a new CSS property introduced by Microsoft in IE10. Essentially, it determines what default browser behaviors to enable in touch mode. When I say default behavior, I mean things like: Making the whole page do the “elastic-bounce” when […]
Bitbucket vs GithubPosted on Published September 4, 2013October 20, 2012 by Tilo I recently moved some of my private repos to Bitbucket from Github. This is something I should have done a while ago. To me, whether to use Github vs. Bitbucket boils down to two questions that you must ask yourself when you start a new project: Will this be open-source? Do I expect there to […]
GlancePosted on Published February 16, 2013August 24, 2012 by Tilo I recently competed in a 24hr Yahoo! Hack Day where I designed and developed Glance along with @allenr. With Glance, we wanted to show that you could make great looking web apps that work great in all browsers across desktop and mobile without resorting to CSS Media Queries or User-Agent sniffing, or changing the code […]
CuriosityPosted on Published February 16, 2013August 5, 2012 by Tilo ”Right now, Mars is hundreds of millions of kilometers away, meaning that even at the speed of light, signals take fourteen minutes to get from Earth to Mars. If you do the math, that means that seven minutes after the entire landing process is all finished, back here on Earth we’ll just be getting our […]
Airtime falls from Cloud 9Posted on Published February 16, 2013August 2, 2012 by Tilo The product may yet succeed, but I’m not holding my breath. One of the comments that I found to be insightful (from Ronmovies): I generally use iChat and Skype for chatting, but I was curious and checked out Airtime. The first thing that greeted me was a Log In with Facebook form that warned that […]
Design Patterns in JavaScriptPosted on Published July 23, 2012 by Tilo My latest tutorial, Design Patterns in JavaScript, just got published over at Nettuts+. Check it out. If you have any questions, feel free to comment here or on the thread over at Nettuts.
The crazy world of codePosted on Published July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 by Tilo Here’s a great comment by @eranation. I call it the crazy world of code: I agree, I can’t keep up. I just finished learning backbone.js and now I’m found out on that it’s old news, and I should use ember.js, cross that, it has opinions, I should use Meteor, no, AngularJS, no, Tower.js (on node.js), […]
Web Scraping with NodeJSPosted on Published June 21, 2012 by Tilo My new tutorial – Web Scraping with NodeJS – is up on Nettuts+. I go through basic scraping methods but the real gold is in the second half, where I talk about using PhantomJS to scrape dynamic pages (pages with AJAX content). Check it out!
Why web developers are software engineers, tooPosted on Published June 19, 2012 by Tilo A fantastic article by Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet): Yes, anyone can be a coder, because that just means you write code. What makes you a software engineer is that you’re paid primarily to write code that ends up being used by your customers. The fact that your code isn’t Java or C++ doesn’t make you any […]
AWS OutagePosted on Published June 15, 2012June 15, 2012 by Tilo Software developers around the world are weeping tonight because AWS is down. This means Heroku is down, and that means a whole bunch of other sites are experiencing some serious outage. To be honest, this is upsetting but it happens. Guess which site is not down though? Good ol’ tilomitra.com, running on old-school shared hosting […]
10 things I learned while interning at YUIPosted on Published May 25, 2012May 25, 2012 by Tilo My article “10 things I learned while interning at YUI” just got published over at Nettuts. Check it out! I’m a big admirer of Nettuts and Envato – they do a great job educating new designers, developers and entrepreneurs.
MetroPosted on Published February 16, 2013May 23, 2012 by Tilo Completely agree with Microsoft on this one. I am starting to prefer WP7’s UI over parts of the iOS user interface, and it is vastly superior to Android in terms of design and user experience. I think it’s time Apple made some adjustments to the iPhone interface because it’s starting to look a little dated […]
