Chris Pateman – PR Coder – Page 11

Guide to the Style Guide

This is about Coding Style Guides, what they are, if you should have one and if so then what one. I will mainly be following it through with JavaScript, but the knowledge can be transferred to other languages as it is the principle that I am looking at.

Display flex back to old browsers

CSS3 and HTML5 has brought us a host of new and exciting features, but then the party poopers come and tell use we need to make sure everything works on the older browsers. At this point we realise these older browsers need some hammering to make sure the new toys still work. One of these features is the display property’s value ‘flex’.

Accessible Table Generator

Content Editors entering content is the bane of all developers lives, as the Editors will add in the most ill-systematic mark-up through the Content Management System (CMS). However they are not developer and do not know what they are doing, that’s why I build an Accessible Table Generator for the Editors at my work.

Less code and more tools

In the world of automation, DevOps and a huge amount of tools for website development are we doing less code and so becoming less of a developer and more of an admin? Over the few years of me doing web development I how found more things have come out the box to reduce the amountContinueContinue reading “Less code and more tools”

How to put items in a Circle in CSS LESS

Through the depths of the internet I have search and found a method to put items on a circle using a CSS preprocessor. However it was in SCSS and I work in LESS, by which I mean the preprocessor not just less things. So I have converted it over to the dark side of LESS and broken down how it works below, I hope this helps

CSS Click Event

There is not real Click Event in CSS, but you can use the other tools you have to replicate that event. In CSS you can determine the stat of elements on the screen and so with that you can check the stat of a Checkbox. This is how we are going create the Click Event.

Can Project ARA work?

Just about all developers watched and followed the Google I/O 2016. You heard about the Allo, the Duo and the Google Home air freshener, but something they also squeezed in was a nod to Project ARA. I thought this was dead with no recent news, but they have brought life to the project again so I ask, can this idea work?

Visual Studio Code Cookie Snippet

If you didn’t know, Microsoft release an editor called Visual Studio Code and if you didn’t know, Visual Studio Code can handle Snippets and extensions. These Snippets can be created by Visual Studio and by the coding community. These can be simple modules to help coding or full languages. I have found a use toContinueContinue reading “Visual Studio Code Cookie Snippet”