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Internet Peoples!

A (hardly comprehensive) list of must-follow thought leaders, resources, and blogs focused on front-end web development, content strategy - and the wild and wonderful culture surrounding it all.

Books

Don’t Make Me Think, UX Design Thinking
Mobile First, Begin planning, developing with small first
Responsive Web Design, Building websites that work well on all devices
The Elements of Content Strategy, Planning for useful usable content

Great Dayton Web Meetups

Come out and join the fun.

Dayton Clean Coders: http://daytoncleancoders.com/
Dayton Web Developers: http://www.meetup.com/dayton-web-developers/
Gem City JS: https://twitter.com/GemCityJS
Build Guild: http://dayton.buildguild.org/
Dayton Ruby Brigade: http://daytonrb.com/

Resources for Thinking of Web Side Projects

The Side Project Project by Sacha Greif
Side Projects: From Idea to Launch by Sacha Greif
How to start working on a side project by Gordon Koo
Products I Wish Existed on Medium.com

Places to submit design and development work

Design

Sublime Workflow

Notes from the Tuts+ workflow tutorial on Sublime Text 2.

Multiple Cursors

⌘ + D when after selecting a word to get multiple cursors
⌘ + CTRL + G to immediately select all matching words
⌘ + SHIFT + L to get a cursor on a block of selected text
⌘ + I for incremental search

It's all in your `<head>`

You know all of those questions about your html <head> element that have kept you lying awake at night? Right. We're going to address each one, clear them up, and have you sleeping soundly night after night in no time at all.

1. Elements that must be in your `<head>`:

Character encoding specification: This declaration, contained within a <meta> tag, tells the browser which character set you want your site to be rendered with. Failing to declare this on every page can lead to security vulnerabilities. Standard practice is to use UTF-8 encoding, and the declaration should be placed near the top of the <head> tag:
```
  <meta charset="utf-8">
```

On Speaking

Ideas and anecdotes from the venerable Matt Griffin

Find a happy balance between sharing memorized "zingers", and loosely speaking from your knowledge.
Learning from Ben: he starts off shooting from the hip, loosely organized. Then you can hear him "feel it" - he finds the point he's looking for, and heads straight to it. Then he ends up on a solid point, bringing it home with a clear, concise observation.
Jazz players on Kind of Blue - how do they improvise? You know the scales so incredibly well that playing the basics fades into your subconscious. It's then that you're freed up to creatively respond to your environment (and the other players).
On using GIF's: don't leave them up to long - they become a distraction. Also, with your slides and GIFs, create a sub-story for your talk that the audience can enjoy in their peripheral. Images or text that provide a humorous or powerful backup / pun / counterpoint to your speaking points. Related: my one-word slides might be weak for now.

Send the current Draft from Drafts for iOS to Clean Links for iOS.

Create a new URL action with this x-callback url: clean-links://x-callback-url/clean?url=[[draft]]

	$(document).ready(function() {
	var resizer = function () {
	var height = 0;
	var tallest_h2;
	$('.article-title').find('h2').each(function () {
	if ($(this).outerHeight() > height ) {
	tallest_h2 = this;
	height = $(this).outerHeight();
	}
	});

	[

	// CUSTOM SET_LAYOUT BINDINGS //

	{
	"keys": ["super+alt+left"],
	"command": "set_layout",
	"args":
	{
	"cols": [0.0, 0.33, 1.0],