Colin's Weekly Roundup - 1/23/13

I'm always on the lookout for exciting ideas and new technologies to broaden my knowledge of web development and design. Each week, I'll be posting links to articles on development, design and other miscellanious information that I find interesting. What follows are the highlights of the links I've recently discovered. I hope you find them as useful as I did.

Design & Frontend:

The Importance of HTML5 Sectioning Elements

Stop Misusing Select Menus

Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordians Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility

What No One Told You About Z-Index

Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers

Ultimate social media size chart cheat sheet for designers

Building Windows 8 – Creating the Windows 8 user experience

Development & Backend:

PHP the Right Way

JavaScript – Function Declarations vs. Function Expressions

Debugging and Profiling in PHP

The 10 Commandments of Logging

Web Developer Checklist

Linux & Server Management:

8 Bash Tricks you should know

15 Greatest Open Source Terminal Applications of 2012

4 UNIX commands I abuse every day

How to Secure SSH with Google Authenticator’s Two-Factor Authentication

General/Miscellaneous:

The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn’t

Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech

Humor:

Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity

DevOps Borat - Cultural Learnings of DevOps for Make Benefit Glorious Teams of Devs and Ops