When you’re starting a new project and thinking about what you’re going to use in your application, what factors do you consider? Sometimes this depends on what your role is, so a develop will jump straight in with just use X coding language and continue on their way. Whereas other might want to play with whatever the new and latest technology is. Then there is people like myself that likes to think about the whole picture, and so here are some of the key factors I consider when building a new application.
Category Archives: HTML/CSS
Should you unit test CSS?
When I told a college I was going to write some unit tests for CSS they went crazy, and I do see why, however I think it can be valuable in the right way. I would like to describe to you why I think doing unit tests on CSS can be worth your time as a developer and also beneficial to the project.
Learn a Framework not a Language
I listened to a podcast that said you should learn a coding framework first not a language. Now this might seem weird and confusing to existing developers as we were brought up with the basic languages and then frameworks have become a trend, but that’s because we are old. New developers are coming into the industry and frameworks are the top dog thing to know and use. You can’t see a job without one these day, so is it better to learn the framework first or should you go back to basics first?
My Grunt Worker
I thought it would be a good idea to share how I have set up one of my Grunt Files.
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
PR Code 