Search Results: development
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…the next steps for their team members in their career development Maintains reasonable individual throughput Is not running all the feature projects Can speak to the projects the team is working on,… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
…to the feelings of trust that underpin relationship development." While team identity, expressed in logos and other ephemera, is not the be-all-end-all of mimicry and trust building, having a… [more]
Software Engineer vs. Software Developer
…have, a greater level of rigor in its approach to software development. Or at least to sound more prestigious than the Software Developer role. Which probably does manifest itself in company culture.… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…Networks to Break and Protect Captchas Mavenlink development teams achieve success by aligning over shared values and strengthening cohesion through open, empathetic communication Validate and monitor… [more]
2020: A year
…Nygard Want to understand the baseline for modern ops and development practices? Read this. Want to understand how to speed development? Read this. Combine it with Google’s hackable projects and… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…out I was using Neo4j, which has an excellent local development story, a lovely web based UI for visualizing your data and CYPHER, which is a pretty easy to grasp graph language. All great marks in… [more]
you’re a journeyman
"The secret is never forgetting that you’re a journeyman actor and that nothing is your final thing, nothing is your greatest thing, nothing is your worst thing. I still consider myself a… [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…not... and I also hope that I am proven wrong about the development experience with redux and flow. Only time will tell :-) [more]
monument
…events, and custom event creation is easy. This makes development awesome and allows for independent development of features. For example, this is an event listener for a route:… [more]
Critiques and Code Reviews
…the things we thought we knew. That is critical to our development as designers, coders, and the quality of our work. When I was studying Industrial Design we had weekly formal critiques. The kind… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…the hard way. Over time. If you want to get into software development, and are in a position to do so, get a degree in CS. Make sure you go to a university that has a good mix of practical and… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…I was thinking about this and how it applies to software development, I realized that they arguments we have around code style are essentially this same tribalism. Just manifested in code, which is… [more]
Death to Jquery
…honestly it’s time. jQuery was critical to the development of the web, it is the reason that most of us have jobs honestly. We would never have been able to build the web as we know it today… [more]
Being Senior Part 1- the books and data
…The books that I mentioned, which are mostly about the development of craft and work ethic, are: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew Crawford Why We Make Things and… [more]
CSS Only Partial Width Borders
A design that I was recently implementing required a partial width underline for some headings and a partial height border as a divider between two elements. But I didn’t want to add any extra… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…There are still releases happening occasionally, and still development happening on the github repo for the VM, but it is pretty infrequent. The best discussion resource I found was the old yahoo… [more]
safe-shrinkwrap: for all your shrinkwrapping needs
…by doing that. OS Specific dependencies. We do most of our development on OS X boxes, and somee of the modules we use depend on modules like fsevents that are OS specific. Which breaks our Linux build… [more]
Learning the Trade
…this is still the foundational work for javascript development. Eloquent Javascript has some great sections in it. Particularly as a primer on functional programming in js. Web Form Design is the best… [more]
Details. Details. Details.
A few days ago my wife and I had dinner at a restaurant in Salt Lake City. The food is delicious, especially the black bean ravioli. But they got an important detail completely wrong. The detail?… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…really? What does it really mean to embrace components in development? So let’s get this out of the way first: Components are not a silver bullet, they will not make your code awesome. They also… [more]
Modules not Globals
Often newer JS developers ask when they should turn something into a standalone module. When should that function turn into its own file? There are lots of things we could talk about with… [more]
REST vs. RPC and a mention of HATEOS
…blocks”. This flexibility is the key to future development. It allows you to build a system that provides flexibility for doing things with the data that you haven’t anticipated. HATEOS is… [more]
Approaching CSS the OO Way
In an interview somewhere in the web development industry: "Hey, have you heard of CSS?" Oh yeah! Totally... it’s that stuff that designers write right? You know it makes things pretty? "Yeah,… [more]
There is a Right Way
…have shaped my life, and, less often than they should, my development, and design. The first lesson, is that taking the time to begin correctly saves you time in the end. This one should be pretty… [more]
Current Projects Update
I realized tonight that I have a whole bunch of projects lying around that aren't mentioned anywhere here on designfrontier. So to remedy that I decided to put together this quick article. RandPop : a… [more]