By Zing Design The Sass versus LESS argument has been done to death. In this article I’ll explain why Sass really is the best and why you should start using Sass if you haven’t already. If you are interested, I’ve also written about how to get started using Sass and the problems with pre-processors. Before I begin […]
Dependency Injection in JavaScript
By Krasimir Tsonev I like the quote that goes something like, “Programming is all about managing complexity.” The computer world is a giant construction of abstractions. We simply wrap things and produce new tools over and over again. Just think for a minute. The languages which you use have built-in functionality that are probably abstracted […]
Six Reasons Why I Love Sass
By David Simpson My first use of Sass in a production environment came when I started working as a designer and developer on Product Marketing at HubSpot. I had read a lot about LESS and Sass and the concepts of CSS pre-processors, and even dabbled with how they worked, but didn’t fully understand how powerful […]
Enhancing the HTML abbr Element on Mobile
By Aurelio De Rosa Today’s world move fast - really fast. When writing, a lot of people use abbreviations and acronyms to save time. We can find these used all over the web. They are so frequently used that an HTML tag, <abbr>, was created to identify them and help improve the semantic markup of […]
A Slight Obsession Over Page Speed
By Todd Anderson Lately, several projects (both personal and work-related) have ignited an increasing obsession over page load speed and performance. I wanted to highlight a few tools and resources I find useful in analyzing performance and delivering web pages in production with optimal load time. Where’d this hat come from? Over the past decade […]
2014 - What Web Developers Will Need to Know
By Brian Rinaldi As noted in the companion post, things moved fast and furiously in the web development world in 2013. Thus, I asked a number of our authors to help shed some light on what web developers might need to know for 2014. Specifically, I asked, “Looking into 2014, what do you think will […]
2013 - The Year in Web Development
By Brian Rinaldi 2013 definitely felt, to me, like a turning point year in web development. In that vein, I reached out to a number of our authors and asked them, “What trend did you perceive in 2013 that had a significant impact on web and/or mobile developers?” Here are their answers. (If you are […]
Building a Parallax Scrolling Game with Pixi.js – Part 3
By Christopher Caleb Welcome back to the third in a series of tutorials covering how to make a parallax scrolling map using JavaScript and pixi.js. A lot’s been covered so far. In the first tutorial you learned some pixi.js fundamentals and applied parallax scrolling to a couple of repeating layers. While in the second you […]
45 Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices
By Saad Mousliki As you know, JavaScript is the number one programming language in the world, the language of the web, of mobile hybrid apps (like PhoneGap or Appcelerator), of the server side (like NodeJS or Wakanda) and has many other implementations. It’s also the starting point for many new developers to the world of […]
5 Most Exciting Features of Foundation 5
By Zing Design We’ve eagerly awaited the release of the latest version of Foundation, Zurb’s hugely popular front-end framework. It has finally arrived and I’m sure a lot of designers and front-end developers are eager to put it to the test. We were lucky enough to have a sneak preview of the framework before it […]