Direction aware hovering effects are relatively new to the HTML/CSS/JS realm and codrops has just put out a really great tutorial detailing the philosophy and code behind them. View it here The demo is especially nice as it is an example of how it might be used in the real world. I highly recommend taking...

So, if you are not subscribed to the HTML5 Weekly newsletter, you might want to get with the program. For the uninitiated, the editors describe themselves as: A free, once–weekly round-up of HTML5 and browser technology news and links. CSS 3, Canvas, WebSockets, WebGL, Native Client, and more. In addition to browser tech news, I’ve found...

Paul Irish, one of our favorite front-end devs, put together a list of must-read blogs for front-end development. At a whopping 258 feeds, it’s a pretty heavy hitter. Luckily, one of the commenters of the original post culled it down to the essential blogs (the ones with posts in the last 6 months). That comment...

When not solving problems in usability, our very own Matt Raw makes handmade letterpress Code Cards that can, among other things, help you express love in HTML. Now he and Campbell Raw Press have come up with a series of new compiler-friendly Christmas cards to send your favorite developer this holiday season: Raw eggs, sugar, and copious amounts...

We’ve been using RVM for all our Rails projects here at Blenderbox for some time and we’ve made it a whole lot easier to use by adding this .rvmrc file to the root directory of all our projects. #!/usr/bin/env bash ruby_string="ruby-1.9.2" gemset_name="gemset-for-project" if rvm list strings | grep -q "${ruby_string}" ; then # Load or...