The sign in the lobby of our Portland office speaks to you. Or tries. For those who stop and listen to the whispering background type, it’s a big sloppy, passionate, run-on sentence that goes a little something like you see above… or read on for the text version…

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America’s original craft beer brand continues the growth of its digital ecosystem with the launch of the new Anchor Brewing mobile website. With the goal to retain the rich feel of the desktop site and expand with content suitable for mobile (including tablet) viewership, it’s another strong touchpoint in the online reinvention of the pioneering Anchor brand.

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The 2nd in our series of slide mondos, this time we take a perspective on what’s happening with the hospitality marketplace. If there’s one industry that’s been transformed by digital branding, it’s travel. When it comes to where they’ll stay, consumers expect digital tools to take them someplace before they ever go there. And now the trend is moving further into the purchase cycle, by taking digital with you when you go, as mobile devices integrate into hospitality research and booking, but into the hospitality experience itself.

A bi-monthly look at the world of web technologies.

Articles

Responsive Workflow
Responsive sites throw a wrench in waterfall workflows.

The Making of Octicons
How GitHub developed it’s own icon font.

15 Things for a Ruby Beginner
We love Ruby! Here’s how to get started.

Mobile Tactile Tech Get’s Physical
A tactile touch screen surface?

Google Finally Takes a Clear Stance on Mobile SEO Practices
And the winner is: responsive sites!

Tools

Understanding Viewport
A set of HTML pages with different viewport settings.

Gittip
Tip developers on Git for doing awesome open-source work.

jQuery Transit
CSS3 transitions with jQuery

Grunt JS
A JS build tool that gaining momentum.

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Articles

Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps
In the big app vs web debate, do publishers prefer web?

How LinkedIn Built it’s New iPad App
Hint: There’s only 5% native code.

In Flux
The current state of retina.

html5shiv and Severing Content From Code Repositories
For a good time serve libraries directly from your app.

Tools

WYSIHTML5
A better approach to rich text editing.

Chrome DevTool’s Vertical Timeline
A new tool for your tools.

HTML5 Audio
The state of play

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The Origin of the <blink> Tag
Who ever came up with that must’ve been drunk…

Responsive Web Design
A Project Managers perspective.

Progress: RailsConf 2012 Keynote
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, talks about progress in our favorite framework.

RIP Hot Pink Text Highlighting
In a sad day HTML5 Boilerplate updates their default text selection color to something more neutral :(

Using HTML5 localStorage on a Form
How to save form data even if you reload the page.

Remote Debugging Protocol v1.0
Safari takes another step forward with their web inspector toolkit.

You’ve probably heard a lot about Pinterest recently. And with good reason – it took the social mediasphere by storm heading into this year, and has quickly grown to be the third most popular social networking site in the U.S.

The social Web is moving toward a more visual presentation (Facebook’s transition to the Timeline format and its recent acquisition of Instagram are two examples), and social media users have embraced this trend. During the first three months of 2012, users uploaded 300 million photos per day to Facebook.

Pinterest offers its users easy access to content through a visual interface dominated by images. The format is simple, and sharing – or “re-pinnning” – content is easy.

Yes, Pinterest works. The question is… Is Pinterest right for your brand? How should you decide whether to pin or not to pin? Read the rest of this entry »

A bi-monthly look at the world of web technologies.

Instagram + Facebook
Facebook buys Instagram for like… a billion dollars.

Google Drive Detailed
Leaked press release gives us possible details of Google Drive, a new file storage service.

Discovering a Major Security Hole in Facebook’s Android SDK
Parse finds issues with Facebook’s SDK

Round Up of Web Browser Internals Resources
A link to links to help you understand your browser

Meteor
An interesting idea for a new IDE

Light Table
Another new IDE conecpt

Screen Resolution Alert
1366×768 takes over 1024×768 as most popular desktop resolution

Austin Kleon is a self-dubbed “writer who draws.” Many first became aware of his work through his Newspaper Blackout Poems and then later his inspirational talk, Steal like an Artist, that spread through the internetz like wildfire.

Kleon’s De-Signs have gone a bit more unnoticed but are definitely noteworthy and fun. The concept is simple: he snaps a photo of a sign and then edits the photo to say something new. Some of them are funny, some are sad and some are inspirational.

Here are two that we’re especially fond of:

Take a gander at the rest.

April Fool’s Day Jokes from Around the Web
A roundup of jokes no one fell for.

Duolingo
Learn a language while helping translate the web.

Paul Irish’s Talk at SXSW
Paul talks latest and greatest

The Developer’s Guide to New and Exciting Web Technologies
New technologies beyond HTML5.

BrowserQuest
An HTML5 online multiplayer game

Chrome Beats IE Market Share for One Day

The EMs Have It
Proportional Media Queries FTW!