A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies need to do to hire "great FE engineers", that A developers are attracted by other A players but more importantly, companies need to foster an environment friendly to front-end web processes, from an attention...
At the start of the year, I highlighted what I thought was the formula for getting and developing front-end engineers. To summarize, it's a combination of: identifying the right traits, cross-pollinating developers from disparate disciplines, and attracting talent by producing awesome work. I forgot to mention that the ideas were a work in...
With Apple's introduction of the Retina-display-equipped Macbook, we're starting to enter a transitional period in display resolutions. As usual, Apple's leading the charge while keeping things simple via pixel doubling, but much like Android and Windows 7/8, I anticipate that other vendors will exhaust all possible form factors...
Designed by engineers. It invokes visions of legacy Windows programs, burdened by buttons and menus and dropdowns consisting of all its features and devoid of aesthetic pretense. It is undeniably and unabashedly functional, yet is barely understandable and nigh unusable save for a handful of memorized workflows. I think most software engineers can relate[1]...
Javascript has won the internet. It beat out Actionscript/Flex in mobile, while a new breed of MVC, client-side frameworks are taking over jobs that used to employ server-side code (e.g., your Rails's, Djangos, and CakePHPs). For the first time, Javascript is popular for more than its copy-paste-ability into an HTML document....
With the recent updates to apps like Flipboard and Path[1] (not to mention the existing base of well-designed apps on iOS), it's about time iOS developers are breaking away from the standard mobile app UI. They're building own UI widgets and introducing new standards, inspiring (i.e. having others copy)...
