Reading Time: 14 minutesEvery once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there’s a lot of components? What if there’s a lot of animations? What if there’s a lot of just CSS?
Tag: CSS
America by Design is Deplorable for All
Reading Time: 11 minutesOne of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all.
A Small Guide for Writing Comments in Front-end Code
Reading Time: 14 minutesHygenic code is commented code. But often, it can be difficult to understand where, when, or even how to comment your front end code. So I’d like to share a small guide for writing comments in your front-end that makes the developer experience better for everyone.
How to Program Like a Linguist
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of … Continue reading
Cyclomatic Complexity in CSS
Reading Time: 8 minutesThere’s a seldom-discussed concept in web software development called cyclomatic complexity which is a metric used to indicate how complex a program or unit of code is. It’s not discussed very often because, well, it’s really not exciting. You can … Continue reading
A Small Guide for Naming Stuff in Front-end Code
Reading Time: 9 minutesPhil Karlton has famously said that the two hardest things in computer science are naming things and cache invalidation. That’s true. Naming stuff is hard, and so is updating a class name when the stylesheet is cached.
Front-end for the back-end: Tips for debugging CSS
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo you’re a back-end developer. You write .net or Java all day. You create Schemas and Templates in Tridion. It’s Friday. The front-end developers have signed off early and you just got a high priority bug. And it’s in the … Continue reading
Front-end Architecture Options in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had a discussion recently about whether to put CSS into Tridion as multimedia components or code components, and it triggered a really fun discussion. We talked about all of our different strategies and use-cases for managing the CSS in … Continue reading
Two Front-end Tidbits for Tridion Guys
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I’ve mentioned previously, I recently left Tahzoo and started working at a new company called Content Bloom. Last week was Content Bloom’s global training summit, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (if that’s a real place). Everyone at the … Continue reading
The Contenteditable jQuery Plugin Gets an Update
Reading Time: 2 minutesA good long while ago, I discovered that contenteditable was a pretty nifty attribute to play with, especially when you get CSS involved. Then I stumbled upon the scoped attribute which you can apply to a <style>block, which isolates styles … Continue reading