UX testing
So part of my new role at work is to try and improve the User Experience on one of the companies many (internal) sites. The site in question has recently had a refresh and my initial involvement was to help port content …
REACTing well
I was recently tasked with building a ‘dashboard’, something else to learn. So I hit my pluralsight tutorials and filled up on coffee. I also decided to take the plunge into the React world, as this is in vogue at …
head in the cloud
So I came back from holidays and started in a new team. Same firm, building and floor – but different team, now I’m doing UI Engineering for Automation. A whole new bunch of people in a brand new team. They are …
agile ceremonies
Trying to be more disciplined at work with our agile ceremonies. They are a really important practice to help bridge some of the knowledge gaps in our team and the general concensus is that we’re doing well as a group. With …
AngularJS Training
Began my AngularJS training today and I’m surprised at how much I had already learned myself. Whether it’s from the countless hours in front of Pluralsight videos or the even more hours in front of project code – I’m mildly …
learning every day
Enjoying a period of constant learning right now. Whether it’s about the Jenkins build I’m trying to set up; using JS prototypes for handling a data model or just getting under the bonnet with some AngularJS – everything is all …
multi-site success
As a certified Umbraco Developer I should really know better, but I am a very happy camper tonight. My work is rolling out a couple of upgraded sites in v.7 of Umbraco, instead of their current v4.6. Rather than duplicate a shed …
Heydon Pickering – css
Heydon Pickering | Effortless Style | CSS Day from Web Conferences Amsterdam on Vimeo. Classes, and the CSS methodologies based on them, have begot a component based approach to styling web pages. This results in a form of presentational mark-up that, …
sass-ifaction
Over the many years I have been developing websites few advancements have beat the change from css to pre-processors such as sass and less. In the good old bad old days css was highly labour intensive and could often involve hours of repetitive tasks, when the clients invariably changed …