This week it’s another Rapid Fire!!! Nothing but the best darn question and answer action you’ve ever heard!

We talked about:

Q & A:

2:01 I follow tons of awesome web developers on Twitter and I learn about all the cool new things. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. How do I actually get better at making websites?

8:22 I got an email that contained a countdown timer gif. Do you know how this was accomplished?

15:54 I am working with a site that generates it’s own short urls and I was wondering about adding to my pages. First of all, what good does it do? Secondly, I also saw . What is the difference, if any, and which should I be using?

25:44 What is your preference for fixing design breakpoints in responsive designs?

33:54 Now that Twitter is cutting off their Javascript engine to the public, how do I pull in tweets from Twitter without having to use the embedded widgets?!

40:02 Why do people avoid using Javascript?

44:44 How do you handle touch screens and responsive design?

52:42 Many mobile first grids/ frameworks I see use predefined breakpoints. Doesn’t this go against the common rule of designing for the content and not the device? Should I have commonly defined breakpoints then tweak each page accordingly?

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30:22 Adobe – Check out Project Parfait: it’s a really nice way to extract everything you need from a PSD – in your browser!

Also, take a look at the Edge Animate CC updates: some sweet new features like copy/paste SVG art from Illustrator.

Show Links:

React JS

Angular

Ember

Countdown Clock in Email

Email Countdown App

CSS Shapes

Brackets Code Editor

CodePen: Twitter Post Fetcher

Trent Walton: Device Agnostic

CodePen: Input Methods by Operating System

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