WordPress is arguably the most successful “killer app” of the web in the last 10 years. Since it is written in PHP and has a history of security vulnerabilities, most “software brains” dismiss it as a toy. While it is … Continue reading
After working on projects involving ADA / WCAG compliance I can assure you, the internet sucks for people who are visually impaired. Unless you are on a government website (required by law to be compliant) or a website that is … Continue reading
Here is the CSS I’m using for my WordPress blog to improve the way Gists look. UPDATE 4/2016 – There used to be a major post here with a Gist, but I recently discovered GitHub improved their CSS making my … Continue reading
Grunt is a front end build tool I’ve used on the last several projects. It handles CSS / JavaScript minification, concatenation, and linting really well. Some of my legacy projects use a combination of bash and Yahoo UI Compressor, which … Continue reading
Recently implemented a Captcha field on a signup page. So, to start with I looked around for a good plugin to handle this. ReCaptcha was the first one that popped up. ReCaptcha does support themeing, which is nice since the … Continue reading
AngularJS makes everything else look obsolete. I’m looking at you Backbone and Ember… It is one of those things where in hindsight the approach appears obvious because it is so elegant. However it took the web a good 15 years … Continue reading
There are many developer oriented tools out there for testing web site performance. Many are free (free as in beer), some are open source (free as in speech), and a few are also subscription based. If you are not using … Continue reading
Pngout is a free command line utility for compressing png files without any loss in image quality. Pngout compresses PNG files really really well (10-30% savings is typical). That translates into real dollars in terms of storage and bandwidth for large … Continue reading
Software professionals should be aware of the limitations that come with the current trend of building asynchronous heavy web applications. We are seeing a surge in serious and large scale JavaScript applications at the enterprise level. Here is a list … Continue reading
I’m currently working on responsive websites that support not only desktop browsers, but also Android and iOS – at any resolution. Testing becomes quite a task when it comes time to stop writing new features and preparing to check in. … Continue reading
