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less-css-mode - Emacs mode for LESS CSS (lesscss.org), with support for compile-on-save

bootstrap - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing
responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Less extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and
functions. Less runs on both the server-side (with Node.js and Rhino) or client-side (modern
browsers only).

Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web
developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the
internet.

For the betterment of typographic style and practice.

Each week, new devices appear with varying screen sizes, pixel densities, input types,
and more. As developers and designers, we agree to use standards to mark up, style, and
program what we create. Browser makers in turn agree to support those standards and set
defaults appropriately, so we can hold up our end of the deal. This agreement has never been
more important. That’s why it hurts when a device or browser maker does something that
goes against our agreement—especially when they’re a very visible and trusted friend of
the web like Apple. Peter-Paul Koch, Lyza Danger Gardner, Luke Wroblewski, and Stephanie
Rieger explain why Apple’s newest tablet, the iPad Mini, creates a vexing situation for
people who are trying to do the right thing and build flexible, multi-device experiences.

The situation is that I need to know which tables in a database hold a foreign key
constraint against a particular table, let's call it TableX. The reason I need to know this
is because I am planning to rename and retire TableX and in mySQL at least, the foreign key
contraints follow the table…

This article looks at what css baseline exactly is, and what tools we have at our
disposal in order to execute it.

An iOS Developer Takes on Android Recently, we released the Android version of
Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps. We didn’t use one of these “Cross
Platform!” tools like...

Read this article to learn how to create some cool CSS3 buttons in just a few steps.
Pure CSS3 social buttons also included.

Read about how to create some cool CSS3 buttons with no images.

HTML5 gives the broad population of Web developers a chance to leap forward in
functionality, performance and speed when compared to native applications. Here's what you
need to know about hardware acceleration of the HTML5 canvas element.

In this article the author walks us through a build demo which centers on off-canvas
navigation and looks at the complexities of implementing such a pattern in a highly
performant manner.

Today we're launching a new look for people reading ProPublica on smartphones. We've
redesigned and re-engineered the site so that people on small screens will automatically see
a version of the site optimized to fit them.