Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources

If you are anything like me, you love and thrive on what is new in the front-end world. What is the latest in HTML5 buzz, what is the newest library that will solve all my needs, what is that new jQuery plugin that will make my client drool, and things of the like.

I used to scour the internet for things like that myself and share them on Twitter and elsewhere, but I've recently changed focus so that I can blog more frequently. My desire for tech news has not diminished in the least, I am still a junkie for new articles and libraries.

So, what am I to do? Well, that is easy. There are many fine resources that have been around for years and there are also some that have cropped up recently that should provide just the right amount of geek influx to quench my thirst and I hope yours as well.

Daily Technology News

Twitter

• @JavaScriptDaily by Peter Cooper (@peterc)
• @JSCentral by Béla Varga (@netzzwerg) and Axel Rauschmayer (@rauschma)
• @JSGoodies by Peter van der Zee (@kuvos)
• @DailyJS by Alex Young (@alex_young)
• @FunctionSource by Dion Almaer (@dalmaer)
• @EchoJS by Frederic Cambus (@fcambus)

Blogs

• DailyJS: A JavaScript Blog by Alex Young (@alex_young)
• The Morning Brew: A Daily .NET Software Development Link Blog by Chris Alcock (@calcock)
• The Morning Dew: Your Source for .NET Development Resources by Alvin Ashcraft (@alvinashcraft)
• Function Source: Your Source for Developer News by Dion Almaer (@dalmaer)
• EchoJS: A HackerNews-like site dedicated to JavaScript and Front-end News by Frederic Cambus (@fcambus)

Weekly Technology News

Newsletters

• JavaScript Weekly by Peter Cooper (@peterc)
• HTML5 Weekly by Peter Cooper (@peterc)
• Web Design Weekly by Jake Bresnehan (@jake_bresnehan)

Blogs

• JsMag News Roundup by David Calhoun (@franksvalli)

Podcasts

• The JavaScript Show by Peter Cooper (@peterc) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer)
• JavaScript Jabber: Your Prototype for Great Code hosted by AJ O’Neal (@coolaj86), Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw), Jamison Dance (@jergason), Peter Cooper (@peterc), and Yehuda Katz (@wycats)
• ShopTalk Show: A live web design and development podcast by Chris Coyier (@chris_coyier) and Dave Rupert (@davatron5000).

[Cross posted from Fresh Brewed Code.]

Bye Bye Tech Tweets

As you probably noticed I haven't been blogging as much as I used to. With church, family, work, and tech tweets it seems my free time has dwindled down to nothing.

I want to refocus on blogging again for this year. Not only do I enjoy sharing the things that I learn, but by doing so I tend to learn the topic even better than I did in the first place. Also, many of my conference presentations are based off blog posts that I've authored previously. 

So, something needs to give for me to have extra time for blogging and giving up Tech Tweets is what I've chosen. Giving up Tech Tweets wasn't an easy decision for me because I've lived and breathed it for probably the past 5 years or so. It is now in my nature to scour the internet for the latest in front-end news. In order for this to work like I want to I'll need to resist the urge to research everything and share it immediately. I'll need to now depend on the others who are currently doing the research. 

Thankfully there are many other avenues to get similar information that I've been providing. Many great resources have cropped up recently that allow you to get front-end news, articles, and library information in a daily or weekly manner. I'll be blogging about what resources I recommend you to follow in the near future. These are the same resources that I'll be using to keep myself up to speed on what is going on.

I am not giving up Twitter or anything. I still will be active on social media, but any tech tweets you see from me will probably be retweets from other resources or just interesting things that I came across that day. Who knows, I might get pulled back into the whole tech tweeting again, but even if I do I'd like to keep it somewhat unstructured.

Thank you all for following me and for regularly retweeting my tech tweets. I do appreciate it. My habbits are changing, but hopfully the posts will be of value to you as well. I have planned out numerous jQuery and jQuery Mobile posts that should keep me busy for quite some time. 

In addition to a renewed interest in blogging I will also focus on posting some content to the newly created Fresh Brewed Code website where many of my friends from the Nashville area are now blogging. I don't have any posts there yet, but expect some very soon!

devLink: Extend your jQuery Application with AmplifyJS

Last week I attended the devLink conference in Chattanooga, TN. On Thursday I gave a presentation entitled Extend your jQuery Application with AmplifyJS.

Thank you for everyone who was able to attend the session. Unfortunately the session was not recorded, but you can access my slides and play around with the interactive jsFiddles that I demonstrated. You can launch the associated jsFiddles by clicking the "pencil" icon when you see one in the slide's title.

The session was a combination of the Script Junkie article I wrote, by the same name, and also some of the prototyping and unit testing concepts that I presented at the San Francisco jQuery Conference earlier this year.

Resources mentioned in the session...

• AmplifyJS
• AmplifyJS Test Swarm
• mockJSON