Tools
Is your team ready for resource management software?
by What is resource management software? Resource management software helps you manage your team’s capacity for work. It provides analytics on who is busy, who is available, and how long projects will take. With these…
7 questions to ask before choosing your technology stack
Choosing the right technology stack is half art and half science. Getting that balance wrong can have a significant impact on your project, so it’s crucial to assess all possible risks. Here are the seven…
Building an Angular List: Using ng-repeat
David Posin sheds some light on using Ng-repeat. There are many things about Angular that make it an excellent framework to use, and one of my favorites is the way its data binding simplifies…
Modern Web Best Practice: Testing
by Tyson Cadenhead covers unit tests and whether you should choose QUnit or Mocha for your next project. Introduction Testing your JavaScript code is becoming increasingly important. Modern web applications are often complex, which means…
Modern Web Best Practice: Build Tools
by Aaron delves into build tool functionality and outlines things to consider when selecting a build tool. Introduction In this post I’m going to discuss the importance of build tools and how they make your…
Getting Started with Modern Web Development
Henry Thompson shares some beginner resources that had an impact on his journey to learning to become a better Modern Web developer. By Henry Thompson It doesn’t take any special gifts to learn web…
Chrome Killed the Terminal Star
by By Krasimir Tsonev I’m not using the terminal anymore. It used to be open all the time, especially when working with Node.js. Nowadays, instead I’m just using Chrome. Yes, Google’s browser. How? There is…
Web Standards Library Update – Week of May 26, 2014
A lot of releases this week including the latest version of the commercial Ext JS framework. Some new tools that seem particularly interesting include Pho Devstack, MotorCortex and Browser-perf. Ext JS 5 includes touch…
Unlimited Access with CORS
By Edaqa Mortoray Opening a REST service for browser use requires CORS. Browsers have a very strict cross-domain policy that will either block the request, or just block access to the returned content. If…
Web Standards Library Update – Week of May 19, 2014
There were a lot of new libraries this week including the App.js UI library for mobile (which shares a name with an older library to build desktop apps with Node, but is unrelated). Also…