We're currently on the lookout for a (medior) front-end developer to join our team.
We expect you to know a thing or two about HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery. You either know how to use Haml, Sass & Compass or are eager to learn.
I uploaded my ArrrrCamp 2011 slides to Speakerdeck. Click/tap through to see them.
80beans will be closed on Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3 because of Ascension Day. For critical matters we're available by e-mail or on our mobiles.
You made a deal with someone to build you a website. Best of all: you agreed on a flat fee! You're getting everything you want, because that's what your vendor promised you. Guess what? It's not going to happen. You fell for the Myth of the Flat Fee.
A few weeks ago Jeff came up with the idea for a search engine for static sites (like his own). Together with Robert & Ivana (who designed the logo) Tapir was developed. It indexes your blog posts based on an RSS-feed.
You don't get rich over an idea. Execution is what counts, what makes money and brings value to the table. Pretty much any idea that has the potential of actually being executed is not unique. Our ideas are always based on other ideas. We only think of a web app that can do X because others paved the road before us.
Yesterday we organized a Fronteers-meetup where roughly 60 people attended. Vasilis van Gemert had a great talk about adaptive design using media queries and I spoke about front-end meta languages like Haml, Sass (+ Compass) and CoffeeScript. The slides are now up on SlideShare. Read the full post for some (small) corrections.
Recently we started a new service called SliceCraft. We heard so many people complain about the (lack of) quality of overseas slicing companies (who turn a PSD into HTML/CSS) that we figured we could do better. On top of that we decided to enhance this kind of service by also providing HAML/SASS and image sprites.
About a year ago we decided to make our entire operation as paperless as possible. This means we basically scan and shred anything that isn't a contract, or a document for which we're required by law to keep the original.
We often use CSS sprites to make a web site render as fast as possible. This used to be a tedious process of cropping images, putting them in one giant image file and calculating (and remembering) the offset. Not any more! We recently discovered Lemonade, a gem that generates sprites automatically, does all the calculations and updates the CSS. Its usage is really simple: instead of "background-image" you just use "sprite-image" (with some additional, optional parameters) and Lemonade takes care of the rest. Highly recommended!