Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a your codebase and uttered one or more of the following: * Hm, should get to that TODO at some point. * I'll love deleting that chunk code when we finally sunset the feature. * We'll just move this over now, and then when...
I want to like CSS3 animations: they seem cleaner than relying on setTimeout() or setInterval()-based Javascript animations, generally run faster and are optimized by the browser, sometimes even hardware accelerated. If I want smooth animations in a mobile browser, CSS3 is pretty much the only way to go. But it always feels like I&...
If you had to sit down and write some software for end-users, which platform and language would you write it in now? How about five, ten years ago, or three years in the future? I believe the answer ought to be "HTML" for all of them[1]. Of course, in the interim there...
As most programmers know, as systems grow in complexity, more time is spent reading rather than writing. Enhancing a body of code, fixing bugs and issues, refactoring and moving pieces around, or simply just using...
Front-end (FE) engineering is a relatively new specialization of software engineering, come of age because of the increasing complexity of front-end web development. Its precursor and cousin is the applications engineer - both involve coding an user interface, but FE eng. usually refers to a web front-end coded with HTML/CSS/Javascript, while app engineers...
Some comments from my last post and on Hacker News brought up an interesting point: it's not easy to conduct software engineering interviews. If you've ever looked for a job as a developer, chances are you have been unfairly grilled by bad interviewers, and hopefully been pleasantly surprised by a few...
