Pattern guides are created in order to gain a perspective of the project’s parts and inner workings. This process helps developers arrive at an educated decision based on the project’s context. By working in this fashion authors can identify possible coding issues and collectively organize these shared principles across an interface. Read More →
Tag Archives : Workflow July 2015
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Top 5 Educational Demos for Web Developers
Instead of telling everyone about my “Top 10 Favorite CodePen Demos” I’d like to take this time to admire interactive tools that provide great use in our daily work and education. Sure I’m dazzled by the shiny’s, but it’s time to talk about the tools that help us learn and aid in the betterment of authors on the Web. Read More →
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Fixed Curtains Pattern
Layout patterns are great for initiating projects quickly, but the ones that provide a plethora of opinionated styles can become frustrating and overwhelming to remove when desired. I’d like to share a few examples and end with a free HTML layout pattern for you to help alleviate unwanted styling and get started on a template pattern quicker that I call “Fixed Curtains.” Read More →
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A CaveMan WordPress Workflow
In the continuing efforts to share workflows of other developers(Windows/Ubuntu, Tooling & Workflow) I’m happy to introduce Welling Guzman. Welling was passionate about sharing a portion of his workflow with the internets regarding WordPress. I’ll let Welling take it from here. Read More →
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I Don’t Git Case Sensitivity
Git is great! Even though it’s totally (hashtag) awesome sauce, you can encounter the occasional strangeness from time to time. My encounter deals with case sensitivity with both file names and also directory names. Read More →
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The GUI vs. The CLI: Beyond the GUI for file transfers and directory syncing
I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to using a gui over the cli to transfer/update files on a remote server. For the majority of my work I use Fetch when I need to transfer or grab single files and sometimes I will even go as far as mirroring with Fetch to sync entire projects. There are better ways for sure, but I really wanted to see what else is out there and the benefits of each method/tool available (ones that don’t use a gui at all!). I decided to take to the tweeters in hopes that other developers would provide me with some feedback/opinions. Read More →
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Keeping your front-end tool chain up-to-date : Node, NPM and Ruby
WARNING! I use a Mac so these comments and examples are from the point of view of a Mac owner.
Setting up an environment with the required dependencies can be a chore to be blunt. Here’s a rundown of the best approaches to keep these dependencies in place once they’re installed. This is not an article about installation, but what to do once they are installed and maybe a few hot items/points of interest to enhance your experience. As a FRED these days you’ll certainly run into a project that may have node or may use Ruby and knowing how to operate in these environments plus keep them updated can be a huge advantage to you or your team members. Read More →