Adventures in Web Development

Lots of great tools mentioned here.

A few things I'm especially interested in:

Automating my image optimization

grunt-uncss

Experimenting with CoffeeScript

HTML5 Boilerplate via Yo

Modernizr

Following @climagic

Sublime Text keyboard shortcuts

Emmet (Zen Coding) - which was also mentioned at the last FED Meetup

STProjectMaker - reuse your boilerplates

Sublime TernJS - smarter code completion

Chrome Dev Tools Workspaces

Emmet LiveStyle - see CSS changes without a browser refresh

Using Sass to automate the process of building a color palette from a single color.

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Modern web design and development

Today I changed my portfolio site's address from: carrie-macdonald.com to just carriemacdonald.com. When I bought the hyphenated domain name a month ago my unhyphenated name wasn't available. It became available a few days ago so I jumped on it. 

Other than changing links in my various online profiles: Twitter, Github, LinkedIn, this Tumblr blog, etc. I also adjusted my Google Webmaster Tools account - including a 301 re-direct via an .htaccess file, and an updated sitemap.xml file. The changing my links and account information took some time, but overall it was easier than I expected it to be.

I still have 'writing a more detailed meta description' and 'taking a better screenshot for my open graph image' on my to-do list (which I should learn how to make with Ruby on Rails soon).

Speaking of Ruby on Rails, I installed the latest version yesterday, along with the 2.1.2 version of Ruby. I should be prepared to hit those Treehouse tutorials hard on Thursday. Tomorrow I need to design my web developer business card - I'm 90% sure I'll go with Moo again for printing. They did a great job last time; I always get compliments on my 'Carrie M Photography' cards. 

A curated list of websites with beautiful free stock photos that can be used for personal and commercial projects.