The Rise of "Worse is Better"
An ancient essay on software design that, after 20 years, should still guide you for every line of code you write.
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Better is better: improving productivity through programming languages
All you need to know about the rise and fall of programming languages. Not really related to the worse is better essay linked here earlier.
Duels of the Planeswalkers: The Magic Engine : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering
For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub-system does not care why the card is there, or how it got there. It is entirely a dumb client.
A collection of useful design resources for developers
This collection contains some useful design resources for developers. Many of them were mentioned in the Refactoring UI tutorials.
Tutorials
- Refactoring UI Videos
- [Refactori...
The JavaScript Object Model: A deep dive into prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...
The challenging setup of an offshore project
After managing a few agile projects from India and learning the tricks of the trade, I have been wondering why life is much easier when you are working closely with the client as compared to working offshore. What worried me more was that I had to...
JavaScript: Testing whether the browser is online or offline
You can use the code below to check whether the browser can make connections to the current site:
await isOnline() // resolves to true or false
Limitations of navigator.onLine
While you can use the...
RSpec: Leverage the power of Capybara Finders and Matchers for view specs
View specs are a powerful tool to test several rendering paths by their cases instead of using a more costing feature spec. This is especially useful because they become quite co...
CSS: Matching against attributes and their values (or parts of them)
You probably know that you can use CSS selectors to match against elements and their attributes, such as:
a[title] { /* any <a> that has a "title" */ }
a[data-fancy="true"] { /* any <a> that has their "data-fancy" attribute set to "true" *...
The Ruby Object Model
In Ruby (almost) everything is an Object. While this enables a lot of powerful features, this concept might be confusing for developers who have been programming in more static languages, such as Java or C#. This card should help understanding t...
A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them
This repository is a community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them. The goal is that if you're building a website using flexbox and something isn't working as you'd expect, you can find the solution here.
As...