When jQuery Plugins Started To Feel Like Technical Debt
An article about the point where convenient jQuery plugins could quietly make websites heavier, harder to maintain and more difficult to debug.
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DevelopmentjQuery 1.7 And Cleaning Up Event Handling jQuery 1.7 And Cleaning Up Event Handling
A practical article about jQuery 1.7, the move towards .on(), and why event handling needed clearer patterns in growing interfaces.
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DevelopmentFront-End Performance When Every Request Still Mattered Front-End Performance When Every Request Still Mattered
A practical article about front-end performance in 2011, when reducing requests, compressing images and caching assets were still everyday concerns.
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DevelopmentSass Mixins And The Question Of Maintainable CSS Sass Mixins And The Question Of Maintainable CSS
A practical article about using Sass mixins carefully, where the benefit comes from reducing repeated work without hiding too much behaviour.
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DevelopmentLESS, Variables And Keeping Front-End Styles Consistent LESS, Variables And Keeping Front-End Styles Consistent
A practical article about using LESS-style variables to reduce duplicated design decisions across front-end builds.
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DevelopmentThe First Time I Looked At Bootstrap In A Real Build The First Time I Looked At Bootstrap In A Real Build
A grounded article about testing Bootstrap on real project work and deciding where a front-end framework helped, and where it still needed restraint.
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DevelopmentWhy Buttons, Forms And Grids Needed A Common Language Why Buttons, Forms And Grids Needed A Common Language
An article about the repeated interface decisions that made reusable front-end systems feel increasingly necessary in 2011.
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DevelopmentTwitter Bootstrap And The Need For Shared Front-End Patterns Twitter Bootstrap And The Need For Shared Front-End Patterns
A practical look at why Bootstrap felt interesting in 2011: not because it solved every front-end problem, but because it gave repeated interface patterns…
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DevelopmentHTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 And The Value Of A Better Starting Point HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 And The Value Of A Better Starting Point
A practical article about HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 and why a better project base mattered for front-end work in 2011.
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DevelopmentWordPress 3.2 And The End Of Designing Around IE6 In The Admin WordPress 3.2 And The End Of Designing Around IE6 In The Admin
A practical article about WordPress 3.2, the faster admin direction and what dropping IE6 support meant for real website work.