Reading Time: 5 minutesHaving a propensity to be pedantic, today I finally reached a small breaking point with line-height. In the grand scheme of communicating design requirements, this is a tiny little thing. But, a good understanding of line-height can improve design, documentation, … Continue reading
Category: Front-end
Front-end Development: the fun stuff that happens in the browser with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
The Difference Between a Fix and a Solution in CSS
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe all fix things, and we all solve things. But sometimes we don’t know whether we’re fixing a problem in CSS, or solving it. And I realize that even I’m guilty of not recognizing one over the other. This isn’t … Continue reading
Front-end for the Middle: Coding and CMSing for Relationships
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is part three of a series called “Front-end for the Middle”. Honestly, I didn’t mean to write three posts. But when one post is over 2,000 words without being finished, it’s time to get slicing. Previously, we’ve talked about … Continue reading
Front-end for the Middle: Semantics and Schemas
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is a continuation of a previous post that I wrote, entitled Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design. Previously, we established that it’s better for a front-end developer to be focused on content, rather than design. In this post, … Continue reading
Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months back I had the opportunity to present at the Tridion Developer Summit in Amsterdam. Gino Toro, (former) product manager for Media Manager was going to be speaking on Media Manager, so I decided to try a different … Continue reading
Hacking Media Manager at an SDL Hackathon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, SDL decided to host a hackathon that launched at SDL Innovate. And I, having a full time job, school, and a side project, needed something to keep me busy. So I decided to participate. I had some ideas … Continue reading
Lessons from Carpentry in Web Development
Reading Time: 7 minutesI come from a family of builders. My father’s father was a master carpenter. And though my father was a business man by career, he was an excellent carpenter by trade. My grandfather built a dresser for my father that … Continue reading
Some Guiding Principles For Front-End Development
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve recently had a bout of philosophy that I can’t quite shake. I like philosophy a lot, and I think we’re all philosophers. I think I picked up that idea in my Ayn Rand phase, where she said, As a … Continue reading
Pub Up: A bookmarklet for Tridion
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago, Dominic Cronin got this wild idea to have a bookmarklet competition with Tridion. The rules were very simple: Make a bookmarklet that does something with the GUI in Tridion. Share it. Well, I’m a fan of … Continue reading
A Tiny Tool for HTML5’s localStorage and sessionStorage
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was talking to a colleague recently about the release of McSandy, and he mentioned that he had a project coming up that would require manipulation of HTML5’s LocalStorage API. I pointed him to a small gist that I’d put … Continue reading