Posts tagged with Engineering
Code Pessimism
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…
Frustrating CSS Animations
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,…
HTML is Still the Great Equalizer
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…
Understanding Code by Transcription
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 a library or framework all…
From Front-End to Full-Stack Engineer
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…
Conducting Developer Interviews
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…
