I am pretty excited for this release. I worked a bit with ZURB Foundation for Email 1 (Ink) and you still had to deal with this terrible table structure that reminds me of 1990's HTML. I think there are some really good ideas here, most importantly an abstraction that allows you to quickly develop branded and responsive HTML emails using some simple html structure that masks a lot of having to deal with those tables, TDs, etc.
Awesome job on the ZURB Foundation 6 launch. Great graphics, sci-fi theme, some awesome new features for the framework. The flexbox grid, yeti launch and the new menu component are worth looking at.
There are services such as snipcart and foxycart that you can trigger via html and javascript. Like most non-locally hosted ecommerce solutions they send you to a subdomain for the final checkout. I have tested both on a static site and both work very well. Snipcart is easier to implement but lacks customization. If you are looking for heavy customization (like custom products beyond just sizes, colors and options) without having to build out your own system, check out foxycart.
Very interesting project and direction for Foundation. Now uses angular directives instead of jQuery "PlugIns" has YAML defined routes and animation through ui-router, flexbox based grid. If you have been using Foundation for a while and are interested or using Angular you should definitely take a look at this project.
The angular-bootstrap and angular-foundation projects have existed for quite some time. Is there some sort of ember equivalent?
In these projects they are rewriting much of the javascript / jquery components as angular directives. The CSS/Sass/Less is unchanged. I assume much of the same could be done in an ember based project.
I think this is a pretty interesting article about doing a revised product, 2nd product launch. From what I gather, it is quite similar to a 2nd or subsequent edition of a non-fiction book. I can't remember where I read it, but someone said that you can often make more money off of a 2nd edition, and often it takes a lot less work than the 1st edition as you are just revising the content.
I'm curious as to why Zepto support was removed. Zurb was pretty big on it for Foundation 3. Smaller size than jQuery, faster load time on mobile, etc. Any ideas why this was scratched?
This is a great article and you can read countless examples the importance of sales and marketing for tech focused startups or small web based businesses. I agree 100% with most of what is being said. Also very cool to create a bootcamp focused on the other end of the business.
The irony of the title, Don't Learn to Code is realized in CTA of tradecrafted.com. Under Business & Social, point 3 is "Basic Programming"
Maybe this should be renamed to: Don't Learn to Code, [much, yet, etc.]
I just point this out because there are varying degrees of what people mean by learning to code. I don't believe that learning to code is bad for anyone, just as I don't believe that math, reading, writing, literature and the arts are either.
Are there any self directed guides to traction or learning this stuff outside of attending a bootcamp?
I am super excited about this. I love the fun visuals, extensive documentation, transparency and honesty about issues with email clients. I think there is huge potential here and I can't wait to see where they go with it. A huge use case that no one is talking about is transactional emails from your web or mobile app. Now you can have great looking emails that increase engagement that look great on mobile email and look (both in design and the underlying code) much like foundation based rails apps.
I agree about both points. I guess I was in the position where I use my own computer or one I can change to dvorak about 99% of the time. The keyboard shortcuts are not great though. Especially for things that are meant for left hand keyboard and right hand mouse simultaneous movement, like in photoshop or most games. I usually just switch to qwerty in a pinch.
vim, is also especially awkward in its movement commands. ST IMO doesn't have this same level of awkwardness.
There are other variants for other languages. There is Bépo for French.
The Dvorak layout is ideally suited to typing in english where you have a constant switching of vowels to constants. All the vowels are on the left hand so the idea is that you alternate and it is unlikely that you will type much more than 2 or 3 in succession and often only 1.
Author here, would really like to get some feedback about how I can make this better for the zurb foundation / ruby community. If you have any resources about creating Rake build scripts for static site resources (outside of Asset Pipeline / Sprockets) I would love to hear about them.