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 th…
By Dain Miller
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 t…
By Dain Miller
Adaptive images: solving the responsive image problem
["<\/a>Responsive design isn't just a change in layout or the use of media queries here and there, it is a mind-s…
By Dain Miller
Startups: refined UX vs. quick rollouts
A startup, by definition, is an entity with limited resources. Those resources could be budget, time, talent, or anythi…
By Dain Miller
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 ca…
By Dain Miller
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 …
By Dain Miller
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 sta…
By Dain Miller
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 …
By Dain Miller
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 ret…
By Dain Miller
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 pro…
By Dain Miller
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 CSS3.
Act…
By Dain Miller
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 whe…
By Dain Miller