The iMessage app in iOS 10 provides rich previews of links when they are properly formatted to take advantage of this new feature. In addition, these same links will contain rich previews in other apps too, like Facebook, Reddit, WhatsApp, Skype, Twitter, and others with the same configuration. In the […]
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Here’s reality. (Data from the 2016 Stack Overflow survey of 56,033 coders): Mentorship programs have a stronger correlation with higher pay than a university degree There is less than 1% difference in pay between masters degree holders and bootcamp graduates 69% of working software developers are self-taught 43% cite on-the-job […]
Great article: https://blog.gyrosco.pe/smooth-css-animations-7d8ffc2c1d29#.3zm20chcz
Bootstrap provides a class (.sr-only) to indicate content for screen readers only. This content is hidden visually, but gives visually-impaired users important information about open tabs, instructions for navigation, etc. Take, for example, AE.com‘s sidebar navigation… The obvious fix would be to include some screen reader only text […]
Just a few months after Facebook announced their “Create-React-App” project, WalmartLabs has opened sourced the application platform that runs Walmart.com, Electrode. So far, it looks like a feature-rich, rapid React development framework, much like Facebook’s project. Both of these projects solve a real problem. With a single and simple line […]
The kind folks at Facebook just announced a way to boilerplate a React.js app: Create-react-app They readily admit there have been several attempts to do this by others, most failing to gain traction. However, they also admit that Ember-CLI impressively ramps up development within that framework. After only a few […]
12 useful hacks for Javascript Most of these are very good tips.
Have to start getting used to some iterator syntax. Here’s how we USED to do it: for (let color in colors) { let colorObj = {}; colorObj.code = colors[color].colorPrdId; colorObj.name = colors[color].colorName; colorObj.imgSwatch = colors[color].imgSwatch; collection.push(colorObj); } Here’s the new way to code the same thing: colors.forEach(function (color) { collection.push({ code: […]
So you write some code, validate the feature, send it off to QA, and move on to something else. The last thing you expect is to have a QA engineer come back and say that your code doesn’t work. When that happens, you begin the process of identifying the differences […]
Great tips here: https://github.com/blog/1943-how-to-write-the-perfect-pull-request All boils down to empathy and manners. Feedback to pull requests should be respectful to the developer.