Atom is a favourite text editor of choice for coding. I spent a long time with sublime text, until I bit the bullet to try something new. Obviously with all the extra new features, and nicer way to handle customisations and so on, I wanted to share some add-ons (known as packages) I use to […]
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Like most people I’m a creature of habit, and I’ve always preferred to use firefox for web development. It’s understandable, considering it was released before Chrome (firefox first released 2002 – compared to Chrome in 2008), and it was a much better alternative to Internet Explorer at the time. Yeh, I’m somewhat of a veteran […]
I’ve always used a developer QA checklist, when I’ve worked on web projects. This article covers some basics like fixing markup errors and console errors. You also need to consider some other things before passing it onto a QA team.
I really enjoy working on WordPress projects. For every one I kick out of the gate, the more comfortable I am with using it. However, getting to where I am now meant learning a few things first to ‘git gud’. Here are some wordpress beginner tips.
Some of these books I’ve been meaning to read up on for while. I’ve intentionally avoided books teaching code, as they quickly go out of date, and there’s a ton of information online for that sort of thing anyway. I don’t get much time to read, but hopefully I can get some of these reading […]
Working actively on code is the best way to learn. I have a few web development side projects in my to do list which I thought I’d share.
This article looks how to test for bugs during web development, and whilst testing a website for bugs during the build process. I look at some of the things I’ve done in the places I’ve worked. This is primarily aimed at front end development, but I guess it could also apply to some back end […]
When I optimise a website for speed, I usually focus on the front end first. Note there are many other things that could affect speed, such as server location, database queries and so on. This article covers mostly the front end stuff.
Forms are well known for being the primary method of interaction with a website. So we’ll take a look at some gotchas and annoying trends in design to keep in mind when trying to make a HTML form accessible.
Whilst on your development career path, you’ll no doubt work on websites that have been built by others. Some might use front end frameworks like bootstrap. Others might be completely bespoke. Your knowledge of one framework may be better than another. Either way, somewhere you’ll end up thinking “how on earth can I work with […]