Erin Dreary business details, Mobile and tablet, Running a business, Web Design & Development 0
Backstory: One of our developers had his computer crash, and he needed a new one ASAP. We decided to send him my brawny Macbook Pro, because its power was sadly underused. I don’t do any heavy lifting—like coding or Photoshop—anymore; my job these days mainly consists of composing emails and managing HR. I didn’t need [...]
Chris How-to, Web Design & Development 0
The best thing I came across about CSS in 2011 was Nicole Sullivan’s Webstock presentation, Our Best Practices Are Killing Us. Reading the slides, I had one of those cool experiences characterized by repetitive head nodding and smiling, where you realize that someone is perfectly articulating a thought that’s only half formed in your own [...]
Ethan Agile development, Cucumber, How-to, In the Field, Jasmine, Testing, Web Design & Development 0
In our team’s testing process (and we do have a significant process to make sure that everything gets covered), we’ve noted in the past that we have quite a bit of overlap between what’s covered by our Javascript unit tests (typically with Jasmine) and by our browser-driving acceptance tests (Cucumber and Capybara with Selenium-Webdriver). Because [...]
Colleen Git, How-to, In the Field, Web Design & Development 0
As a designer who uses Git and Terminal on a regular basis, it pains me to talk to other front-end web developers that aren’t even aware such wonderful things exist. I could go into the many ways that Git has helped me become a better coder and designer, not to mention how many times it’s [...]
Dave Distributed teams, Dreary business details, Running a business 0
I get this question all the time, especially when I go home for the holidays. It’s a valid question, I suppose. When you work in an office, that’s your default way to know the other people on your team are working. [Ed. Note: it's sad that people think their physical presence in an office proves [...]