Dain Miller

Dain Miller is a former Presidential Innovation Fellow at The White House, and mentor for developers at starthere.fm. He now works to lead engineering teams at a distributed media company. You can find him on Twitter @dainmiller or at his website

How to develop a great portfolio

Developing a good portfolio is an absolutely indispensable part of building a client base, or getting a good job for…

Ride the Rails way

Ah, Ruby on Rails. The champion of the startup hustle, and the side project. That in essence describes a lot of why I…

Startups: refined UX vs. quick rollouts

A startup, by definition, is an entity with limited resources. Those resources could be budget, time, talent, or…

UI vs UX: what’s the difference?

UI is the saddle, the stirrups, and the reins. UX is the feeling you get being able to ride the horse, and rope your…

How to speed up your website

Site speed is one of the most important things about creating web content, and web applications. In fact, it has been…

15 great HTML5 and CSS3 generators

HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I've always thought that one of the best ways to…

Tools and methodologies for better coding

Optimization and organization can mean many things, but what does it mean to you? Doing things faster, better, or more…

Techniques for creating modal windows

Modal windows are most commonly described as anything that captures the user's attention, and doesn’t allow them to…

Back to basics: how to code an HTML5 template

Markup is a beautiful thing, and it certainly has changed over the years. What was effectively HTML1, has certainly…

10 of the coolest CSS3 and CSS effects

We all know it and we all love it, and of course by now you probably already know I am talking about CSS and…

6 ways to improve your blog’s design

Blogs can often be left out in the cold when it comes to design. A lot of us discount the need for intensive design…