Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday, or whatever it is that you do. And while I am not the most festive person around, I thought we could do something fun to ring in the New Year. So today we will be learning about what, in my opinion, is one of the...
In a quickly mutating world of web software development, preprocessors are rapidly becoming the new emperors of the land. And they are steadily carving a grand new path out of a somewhat ancient and rocky past. Let’s talk about how preprocessors are reinventing the...
Working at a software development company is a daily reminder of why communication is so challenging. I’m not referring to the challenge of interpreting the grunts, mumbles, and noises that are generally acceptable ways to express yourself amongst developers....
For those of you unfamiliar with pattern libraries, I’d recommend reading Paul Boag’s excellent blog post on the subject. Basically, a pattern library is a type of style guide for a software application; usually a large web project. They’re essential...
Today I would like to discuss a concept aimed at preparing an area of content that is yet to be loaded. Or, more precisely, pre-determine the height of some content that has not yet been displayed on the screen. A great example of this would be a slideshow system such...
Every time you start a new project, or need to create a new business, you’re faced with the old question of, what should my domain name be? The problem is that finding a domain name is actually a lot harder than you would think. If your company is called...
