Recently we wanted to add some tooltips to the Quick Left Method page and I decided I wanted to avoid adding a Javascript plugin into the site's JS to accomplish this. One of our many focuses at Quick Left is performance and decreasing page load time/size is essential to that goal. So, I thought I'd explore the CSS3 route as it seemed quite achievable and even backwards compatible.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of daily life at Quick Left, and time has slipped by, but finally part 2 for CSS best practices has arrived! Rejoice! It only took a month and a half. Let's get to business, I've got clients to think about here!

Let's talk about the conversations you should be having with your clients and bosses (oh those pesky ne'er-do-futures!) about using CSS3 on your next site. How should you approach it?

I recently read Stunning CSS3 - A Project Based Guide to the Latest in CSS and we had a great discussion about CSS3 and CSS Best Practices at our last engineering lunch. This post is an attempt to distill that discussion to your screen.

Things I learned in kindergarten #4080: Sharing is caring. But as a headphone loving, music obsessed programmer, why must I share my keyboard, mouse and development process!? I enjoy going into the code tunnel with some good music on and cranking out solutions. Why are you trying to change me and take me out of my comfort zone!?

As semi-official infrequent music 'master and commander' at QuickLeft due to a diagnosable case of music obsession, I can often be found thinking about coding and music together. Such as, 'What can I play over our sound system that won't distract someone?', 'Is it party time?', 'Who is going to angrily comment first when the Skrillex starts up?' (hint: the usual suspect), 'What if it was the Bloody Beetroots instead? (hint: I've seen previously mentioned usual suspect get down to some BB in the office)'.

A simple plugin to add placeholder text functionality to your text/password fields and textareas.

Protect your Engine Yard Application from being crawled by Web bots and add some security to protect your development environment from curious users.

Fog
A Ruby gem to help simplify working with clouds. Support for Amazon AWS, Blue Box Group, Brightbox, Google, Linode, Local, Rackspace, Slicehost, Terremark, and Zerigo. As the saying goes, to the CLOUD!!

Putting Apps on the Web
Will the new trend towards encapsulating functionality into apps steer us away from the Web as we know it? Discuss amongst yourselves (and with Couch).

Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes
Step your algorithm game up! Including 'Complete code examples in the Ruby programming language.'

Sight - The Syntax Highlighter Chrome
Is your code reading in the browser lacking in joy? Could you use some pick-me-up as you learn and/or debug? Sight's here for you.

Even more after the break!