Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 19 February 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • Everyday Automation: Changing the Case of Text Within Code List Items
    Learn how to quick­ly change case or oth­er trans­for­ma­tions on parts of code list items with­out touch­ing the oth­er parts. The exam­ple in this tuto­r­i­al con­verts coun­try names—both instances of each coun­try name in 202 list items in either the HTML or JavaScript versions—from ALL CAPS to Title Case with­out alter­ing the case of the sur­round­ing code. Doing that by hand, retyp­ing each one, would be labor inten­sive and error prone. It’s a bad idea. Instead, there’s a much eas­i­er, semi-automated way to make the change. To do that, each item must be expand­ed into its sta­t­ic and vari­able components.
  • Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center Explains Decision to Pay Ransom to Hackers – CBS News

    Unfortunately, a lot of com­pa­nies don’t tell any­body if they had fall­en vic­tim to ran­somware and espe­cial­ly if they have paid the crim­i­nals,” said Adam Kujawa, Head of Malware Intelligence for Malwarebytes, a San Jose-based com­pa­ny that recent­ly released anti-ransomware soft­ware. “I know from the expe­ri­ences I hear about from var­i­ous indus­try pro­fes­sion­als that it’s a pret­ty com­mon prac­tice to just hand over the cash.”

  • 13 Things Every Web Designer Needs to Know About SEO in 2016
    Rank high­er in SERPs with these 13 things every web design­er needs to know about SEO, from respon­sive design to speed and every­thing in between.
  • Flexible Smartphone Lets You Flick Through Ebooks
    Researchers have devel­oped an incred­i­bly flex­i­ble smart­phone that can allow users to flick through ebooks, con­trol­ling the flow of pages based on pressure.
  • 5 Myths About Authoring [Video]
    There are a lot of myths and mis­con­cep­tions when it comes to writ­ing books and get­ting pub­lished. Today I’m dis­pelling five of them.Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub