Welcome stranger, sit down by the fire and let us hear the epic deeds, the tales of joy, of woe and of note that occurred these past seven days.

These past two weeks I have been doing 100% front-end web development, loads of JavaScript, Knockout, HTML and CSS both at work and at home. And so, I have been reading a bunch of books and articles on the matter. Below you can see the best of them:

Epic Articles

CSS

• Don’t use ID selectors in CSS
• Simplifying CSS selectors
• Writing efficient CSS
• Performance impact of CSS selectors
• CSS: Specificity Wars (lol)
• What makes for a semantic class name?

UX

• Improving UX through front-end performance

HTML5 Mobile Development

• Touralot: an iOS app built with PhoneGap, Knockout and Azure Mobile Services

JavaScript

• Knockout Asynchronous Module Definition(AMD) with require.js
• Getting into Ember.js
• Using JSHint inside Visual Studio
• Organize your code with require.js

I am going through one of those hibernation periods in which, not matter what I do, I cannot wake up at 5 am as usual and thus, my side-project development hurts xD. Anyhow, I have managed to start a new Knockout project called iPomodoro, and although it is very, very green still, it is meant to become some sort of Pomodoro technique web-based application. More on that soon :)

Cheers!