Author
Tim Murtaugh
Tim has been working on the web since 1997, and specializes in developing custom publishing systems with responsive HTML5 interfaces. His eye for design and serious affinity for clean code allow him to painlessly integrate his templates into larger systems without sacrificing user experience or aesthetics.
Tim started in the non-profit world, moved on to start-ups, shifted to an agency, upgraded to publishing, and is currently the co-founder of the small NYC shop Monkey Do.
Entries by Tim Murtaugh
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Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier
Ilya Grigorik discusses in detail how to construct a mobile website that loads as quickly as possible. A site that not only renders in 1 second, but one that is also visible in 1 second.
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Scott Berkun Speaking at AEA: The Five Most Dangerous Ideas
In a 60-minute video from An Event Apart, Scott Berkun tackles designer disempowerment. He discusses how power actually works, and why developing salesmanship skills is a must, even if your job isn't public-facing.
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Two Tools to Keep Your CSS Clean
A couple resources to manage your styles — csscss helps eliminate redundancies and Helium looks for un-used styles.
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Device APIs in the Real World
Following up on his A List Apart article on device APIs, Tim Wright demonstrates ambient light detection using the Nexus 7.
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PPK on Blink
Our good friend PPK has some thoughts on the news that Google will be using a new rendering engine for Chromium called Blink. Blink is a fork of WebKit, so there's no fear that major rendering changes are going to take place in the near future, but it's something we should all be paying attention to as Blink starts to forge its own path.
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A Couple of Small Updates: Inline Comment Editing & Logging Out
Some site improvements (you can now log out at will—go nuts).
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Embeddable Comments? Yes, Please.
Just like tweets, you can now embed ALA comments anywhere you like. This is one of those features that we’ve been wanting for our own purposes, and then we figured: as long as we’re building it, let’s give everyone the ability to embed comments.
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More Thoughts About Blockquotes than are Strictly Required
Thinking about content and markup, and finding a meaningful blockquote pattern.
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CSS Design: Mo’ Betta Rollovers
Design smarter, faster, better rollovers with CSS.
