ShopTalk Show

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...

This week we’re joined by Marcy Sutton. Marcy is a interactive developer at Substantial in Seattle. We take a deep dive into web components, accessibility, Angular JS, AJAX, ARIA, and more! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 17:56 Do you know of any standard way that accessibility-aware web devs will test whether their ARIA-related efforts have proven successful? Is there some screen-r...

This week we’re joined by Justin Sainton. Justin founded Zao, Portland’s premier WordPress Agency. He is also the Lead Dev for WP eCommerce, and a WordPress Core Contributor, so we joined him for a Halloween-themed deep dive into some spooky questions about WordPress development! Warning: this episode contains some spookily-scary soundbytes; listener discretion is advised. We talked about (roughly...

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but mouth guns and hot question and answer madness! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 8:16 Is there a reason to use single quotes instead of double quotes when writing HTML? 11:45 I started doing work (with a group of fellow students) for a client 6 months ago, and they keep coming back with more work and changes to the site. I still haven’...

This week we’re joined by Jared Spool. Jared is the founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. He also co-founded Center Centre, a new school creating the next generation of industry-ready UX designers. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 32:38 How do you feel about questionnaires being sent to clients? Do you think it de...

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but ray guns and hot question and answer madness! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 3:26 For responsive menus, do you use a similar plugin on each site, or do you build custom menus for each site? Are there any responsive menu plugins that you would recommend? 11:12 When editing pre-built wordpress templates for a company I work for I often...

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but ray guns and hot question and answer madness! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 3:08 I hear a lot of people asking about mentorships so I made a site called HackMentor for people to post looking for mentors / mentees. I wanted to learn MVC so I thought it would be a fun project to get the concepts down. 5:03 I use Sass and Compass with...

This week we were joined by Bastian Allgeier. Bastian created and maintains Kirby, a file-based CMS. We take a deep dive into Kirby, other CMSs, and more. We talked about (roughly in order): News’n’Links’n’Drama: 17:25 Booking.com: Would You Like Fries With That? Q & A: 26:38 I’m a part of the CSS-Tricks forum where you can usually find me recommending Kirby to just about anyone struggling wit...

This week we were joined by Marc Grabanski. Marc is a UI dev consultant and runs Frontend Masters. We talked about (roughly in order): News’n’Links’n’Drama: 12:00 Don’t call it Standard Markdown Q & A: 16:07 How do you prefer attaching JavaScript events to elements? 25:58 I am having a hard time finding a way to bridge my methods between front-end javascript and back-end php/mysql. Is there a...

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but hot question and action action! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 3:29 My question is about LiveReload. I want to use this but am having trouble getting sass, wordpress, and LiveReload to play nicely. When setting up live reload do you use the JS snippet or the chrome extension? Do you let LiveReload compile your sass, or use your tool...

This week we were joined by Ian Feather. Ian is the Client Side Technical Lead at Lonely Planet. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 28:26 How do I create CSS shapes for my website? 32:40 I noticed that Lonely Planet uses SVG icons; but they appear to be base64 encoded. How is that set up in the CSS, and what happens when they need to edit/add icons? 35:28 How do you guys deal with what...

This week we were joined by Karolina Szczur. Karolina is a designer, developer and photographer living in Kraków, Poland. She is currently working with the delightful people of &yet. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 23:44 How do you guys deal with web fonts that render significantly smaller than average? 31:02 What is the current trend for the placement of a form on a page? 39:46...

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE! Nothing but the best darn question and answer action you’ve ever heard! We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 3:45 I need a responsive image solution for a redesign of a website running on the (.NET) Episerver CMS. What responsive image solution would you use under these constraints? 8:18 I’ve built a whole range of different sites now on WordPress and in...

This week we were joined by Sara Soueidan. We take a deep dive into the world of SVG. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 17:45 Why do you think it took us so long to start using SVG images in web development? 27:36 I just started fiddling with SVG sprites a bit and the things that I haven’t figured out yet in my SVG workflow are: removing inline styles from paths, polylines, lines etc,...

This week it’s another Rapid Fire!!! Nothing but the best darn question and answer action you’ve ever heard! We talked about: Q & A: 2:01 I follow tons of awesome web developers on Twitter and I learn about all the cool new things. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. How do I actually get better at making websites? 8:22 I got an email that contained a countdown timer gif. Do you know how this wa...

This week we were joined by Tobias Günther. Tobias is the founder and CEO of Fournova, the makers of Tower – the most powerful Git client for Mac. We take a deep dive into Git and version control. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 16:06 I have never used git before as a web developer/designer. Can you explain in more detail about how git works? 21:12 When you make a commit in a VCS li...

This week we were joined by Fabio Carneiro. Fabio is an Email & User Experience Designer at MailChimp , where he designs and develops versatile, responsive html emails for over 4 million users. We talked about (roughly in order): Q & A: 21:50 Are there any tools or frame works to help make responsive emails easier for me? 38:06 Can you describe your workflow for marking up and testing a HT...