Some code you live with for the long haul, some is more ephemeral. The things is, it may not be immediately apparent which is which! Make it maintainable and give it structure, but don’t get too precious or build brittle systems that are hard to back out of.
When cooking up a new batch of code, it helps to ask these questions… Does the code make a product useful? Does the code help make a product understandable? Is the code itself understandable? Does the code have the potential to be long-lasting? Is the code thorough? Does it cover all use-cases presently known? Finally, [...]
Cloud9 IDE is pushing the envelope of what we devs can expect from our code environment. With a heavy JavaScript and Node.js slant, Cloud9 runs in any modern browser and integrates with git/github and also offers a streamlined approach to deployment. I’ll be attempting to use it on my personal projects. What I’ve seen so [...]
A well designed site by the folks who brought us HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr and CSS3 Please shows how to implement specific HTML5 features: with confidence, with a fallback or with polyfills. The site also breaks it all down with a searchable interface and the ability to filter by html, css, js or browser-native API. Check [...]
A surprisingly balanced comparison between Mongo and Couch is posted on the Mongo docs website. While the focus of technical talking points drifts towards Mongo, this is inevitable, as the doc is written from the perspective of Mongo experts. However, the writing is not pre-disposed to favor Mongo as a one size fits all solution, [...]
“End to End User Experience”…the idea that all developers, not just those who develop the UI (and the designers they partner with), need to safeguard the quality of the user experience. I really truly believe that the optimum user experience can only be realized from a technical perspective when the code from server to browser [...]
Google Codesearch will be shutdown effective January 15, 2012 but there are a number of alternatives for searching the source of publicly available codebases. Alternatives mentioned (but not explicitly endorsed) by the Codesearch team include http://koders.com, http://opensearch.krugle.org, http://grepcode.com and http://www.antepedia.com. Of these four, Krugle seems to be the most helpful for Front End development code [...]