HTML5 Becoming Official And What That Meant In Real Projects
A practical look at HTML5 becoming a W3C Recommendation in 2014 and why the moment mattered even though developers had already been using many…
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DevelopmentWordPress 4.0 And Making Content Management Feel More Polished WordPress 4.0 And Making Content Management Feel More Polished
A practical look at WordPress 4.0 and why improvements to writing, media management and plugin discovery mattered for real client websites.
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DesignMaterial Design And The Return Of Rules To Interface Design Material Design And The Return Of Rules To Interface Design
A practical look at Material Design in 2014 and why a structured design language was interesting beyond the visual style itself.
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DevelopmentGulp And Keeping Front-End Build Steps Readable Gulp And Keeping Front-End Build Steps Readable
A practical look at why Gulp-style build tasks became attractive in 2014 as front-end projects needed repeatable asset processing without becoming harder to understand.
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DevelopmentBootstrap 3.2 And The Front-End Framework Becoming Part Of Normal Project Work Bootstrap 3.2 And The Front-End Framework Becoming Part Of Normal Project Work
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DevelopmentjQuery 1.11, 2.1 And The Split Between Old IE And Modern Browsers jQuery 1.11, 2.1 And The Split Between Old IE And Modern Browsers
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DevelopmentWordPress 3.7 And Taking Maintenance More Seriously WordPress 3.7 And Taking Maintenance More Seriously
A practical look at WordPress 3.7, automatic background updates and why maintenance became something developers needed to think about as part of the website…
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DesignBootstrap 3 And The Shift To Mobile-First Front-End Design Bootstrap 3 And The Shift To Mobile-First Front-End Design
A practical 2013 look at Bootstrap 3, mobile-first layout and the need to use front-end frameworks without letting them make every website look the…
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DevelopmentReact And The Strange Idea Of Thinking In Components React And The Strange Idea Of Thinking In Components
A 2013 view of React, JSX and the move towards building interfaces as small pieces of behaviour rather than separating markup and interaction too…
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DevelopmentGrunt And The Front-End Build Process Becoming Normal Grunt And The Front-End Build Process Becoming Normal
A practical look at why front-end task runners started to matter in 2013, and how Grunt changed the way repeated build steps were handled…