JavaScript Garden

JavaScript Garden.

Beautiful design and great content.  I really love how the ToC on the right side follows your progress through the document.

mailchimp/Email-Blueprints – GitHub

mailchimp/Email-Blueprints – GitHub.

If you need to send HTML email from your web app, check this out. You can see all of the templates by cloning the repo and opening the html files in your browser. MailChimp’s team has spent a lot of time building and testing these on different email clients so you don’t have to.

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek Sivers

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek Sivers.

I think this article articulates a very important aspect of management. The leader’s job is not to be the bottleneck that everyone depends on for guidance. A leader’s job is to present a vision and philosophy and grow a self-sustaining embodiment of those ideals. This depends on communication and trust.

I’ve described my profession (Programmer/Software Dev) as having an ultimate goal of automating away our profession. We’re still a ways away, but the principle holds for any position where you aim to leverage resources to do more than you can on your own. Success is reaching a point where your resources (be it computers, people, robots, carrier pigeons) are maximally and sustainably utilized towards reaching a shared goal. How you achieve this depends on the situation, but the consistent thing is to remove yourself as the bottle neck.

5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery – O’Reilly Answers

5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery – O’Reilly Answers.

I forget how cool jQuery is when I’m away from it for a while. This is a good reminder.

Use Deadweight and your integration suite to automatically find unused CSS rules – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS

Use Deadweight and your integration suite to automatically find unused CSS rules – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS.

Very cool method. I’d love to see something like this with tighter integration with Compass and SCSS.

Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison :: KKovacs

Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison :: KKovacs.

This is a great summary of a few major players in the NoSQL space.  It doesn’t go in to too much detail, but it’s pretty fair to each one.  I especially like the use cases he outlines for each.