ShopTalk Show

This week we're joined by Emily Lewis and Lea Alcantara of the CTRL+CLICK Cast! We talk about keeping up with new technologies, Expression Engine VS Wordpress, CMS alternatives to Wordpress, the creative process for designing for the web, how to find work/life balance, and more. Q & A: 20:01 For years I have primarily used ExpressionEngine as my CMS of choice. While I still love EE, it isn't r...

Vitaly Friedman is the founder of Smashing Magazine. Vitaly shared his experiences with traveling and working remotely, and online publishing. We also discussed Microsoft's new browser, designing for VR, holograms, and more. We talked about (roughly in order): News’n’Links’n’Drama: 24:43 Microsoft's new browser, Spartan Q & A: 36:31 I’m planning to start blogging about web development. Do you...

This week we’re joined by Tom Dale. Tom is a former Apple software engineer who worked on MobileMe and iCloud. He also helped create Ember.js and co-founded Tilde.io with Yehuda Katz. We took a deep dive into Ember.js, Javascript frameworks, and working with open source projects. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 16:24 I’m not so experienced with JavaScript, so I really don’t quite un...

This week we’re joined by Jed Schmidt. Jed is a javascript developer and resident web nerd at UNIQLO in NYC. We take a deep dive with Jed into Javascript and front-end frameworks. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 16:10 In spirit of keeping markup separate from style, separate from behavior, what are your thoughts on using the HTML5 data attribute as a selector for javascript, rather...

This week we’re joined by Sophie Shepherd. Sophie is a Senior Designer at Happy Cog Austin, organizes the Austin Dribbble Meetup, and teaches at Girl Develop It. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 19:40 How do I choose the right font for my website? 28:20 I have been doing web design and development for a while and I’m wondering whether I should start blogging. Would you recommend host...

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but Thanksgiving turkey hangover and hot question and answer madness! Q & A: 3:12 I have had to do a bunch of horizontal scrolling sliders for work lately. These “sliders” always through me for a loop because I am working off comps I had no part in designing. How do I keep these sliders from freaking out when the browser is resized while they are pa...

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but web standards southern gentlemen and hot question and answer madness! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 2:37 A question about responsive images: I just came across this CSS approach to specifying a “focal point” of an image so when the browser resizes the image is cropped and it’s location is adjusted so that a specified point stays in...

This week we’re joined by Rachel Smith. Rachel is currently doing animation/motion design for the web at Active Theory. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 16:16 I’ve been playing around with requestAnimationFrame in an attempt to create a smoother, more efficient animated ScrollTo effect for various web projects I work on. In some modern browsers, I’m getting some stuttering at the beg...