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- May 01 2018
Adapter Pattern – A Must for Vendor & Service Integrations
Software development is a costly process. Requirements need to be gathered, decisions need to be made, and resources need to be scheduled to write the software. All of these steps require an investment of time and money to get a feature to the point where it starts bringing value to a business. After the feature […]
Continue ReadingAdapter Pattern – A Must for Vendor & Service Integrations - Jul 26 2017
Accessibility for Robots
Maybe you’re not a “people person.” It’s not that you dislike other humans, but you recognize certain realities of your work. Your day job is maintaining a web application, after all, not carousing with your users. You know that accessibility is an important topic, but you haven’t been able to find the time to learn […]
Continue ReadingAccessibility for Robots - Jul 14 2017
Agile Methods for Tackling Technical Debt
Managing technical debt is such an important part of software development we include this goal in every contract we send out: Reduce or eliminate technical debt. All complex projects accumulate some form of technical debt. In extreme cases, it can cause project velocity to slow to a crawl. In this post we’ll review a few […]
Continue ReadingAgile Methods for Tackling Technical Debt - May 03 2017
Screencast Transcript: Improving Webpack Build Times
On February 15, 2017 we had a screencast to talk about how to improve webpack build times by utilizing the new webpack HardSource plugin created by our colleague Z Goddard. This post contains the video of that event along with a transcript and visual aids. If you’re interested in learning more about webpack, check out […]
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- tools and workflow,
- tutorial
- May 02 2017
Webpack: A simple loader
A webpack loader is a Node module that tells webpack how to take some input content and transform it into output JavaScript. I often build one-off loaders to experiment or fulfill specific needs for projects—their most basic interface is simple, but can get a lot done. They can be pretty easy to follow and understand, […]
Continue ReadingWebpack: A simple loader - Mar 21 2017
Using NVDA Screen Reader on Windows
NVDA stands for NonVisual Desktop Access and is a FREE screen reading app for Windows OS. Emphasis on the “free”, as there are other Windows screen readers out there with prices that will make you spit-take across your monitor. (Is there such a thing as a subtweet inside a blog post?) If you do end […]
Continue ReadingUsing NVDA Screen Reader on Windows- Tagged in:
- a11y,
- accessibility,
- nvda,
- screen reader
- Mar 02 2017
CSS Grid: Responsive and Accessibility
Reflow your content with ease In the first post I wrote about my very first learnings with CSS Grid, I showed how I took a pattern I’ve used many times and reproduced it with a lot less code. After learning about how to do something simple, I started wondering about the other properties of CSS […]
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- accessibility,
- CSS,
- CSS Grid,
- responsive
- Feb 24 2017
CSS Grid: Design possibilities
As I started to learn about CSS Grid and the new base layout possibilities, I was struck by how much this changes things for design. I don’t think I’m alone in this, either: a search through CodePen reveals plenty of designers and developers thinking about this as well. There are so many new ways to […]
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- CSS,
- CSS Grid,
- design,
- responsive
- Feb 23 2017
Getting Started with VoiceOver & Accessibility
If you are a web developer working on a Mac, you can become a hero for thousands of people out there by assuring that anything you create for the web can be read properly by a screen reader. This blog post is going to teach you how to access and wield this super power that […]
Continue ReadingGetting Started with VoiceOver & Accessibility - Feb 21 2017
CSS Grid: Learning new layout
I’ve been writing base layouts for CSS a long time. Come next month, I’m going to be using a new feature to do that work for the first time in many years, CSS Grid. Yes, flexbox came along and I used it for some pieces of the layout, but it didn’t change the way I […]
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- CSS,
- CSS Grid,
- responsive