I've written plenty of front-end opinions and experiences on this blog over the years, around: * Defining them * Getting them * Growing them * Promoting them I've spent a good amount of time thinking about the role, the specialization and how the field would mature over time. So when I read this post on...
I've been wrestling with this question for years: what does a successful, senior-to-staff-to-VP level front-end engineer look like? It's a question that I've found has different answers depends on who's answering, which itself is based around their definition of what a front-end developer is and ought to...
I saw this list of ten supposedly tools "you can't live without" and found it lacking; it's more of a list of IDEs/text editors and frameworks which a front-end could choose from. I wanted a set of comprehensive tools that addressed the varied tasks that a front-end engineer...
I think it was about three months ago when I looked at my to-do list of things to fix for this blog, and I decided to hunker down and redo the whole thing in two weeks. Well, it took a bit longer and occupied a few Friday nights, but I'm happy with how...
I've been meaning to write down my thoughts on Javascript MVC frameworks for a while now. Ever since we rebuilt the Square merchant website with Ember[1], we've added major new sections to the webapp and gotten a better understanding of how an MVC app would be built and maintained with...
Given the speed that web front-end technologies evolve and change, it's daunting for many to keep on or even just close to the bleeding edge, so I'll let you in on a little secret: one strategy to keeping up with all the technologies is – Don't. At least, there shouldn&...
