Posts tagged with Front-End
User-Centric Development
When Adobe announced this week that it is no longer trying to make Flash viable on mobile platforms, there was a good amount of developer talk on the ramifications. In particular, some on Hacker News lamented that they could no…
Google Just Likes Java
Google went ahead and released their new proposed language for the web, Dart. It's a well-meaning gesture to upgrade the state of client-side web dev, but has had a lukewarm reception. Not surprising, when it looks like Java,…
Silky Smooth Browsing
Almost lost amidst the announcements yesterday of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is their new browser, Silk. Though some blogs picked up the story after all the hardware hype and media attention died down, most chose to focus…
Javascript Web Applications
Despite my reservations about the inefficiencies of books on technology, I've been reading Javascript Web Applications to catch up on the past 2+ years of JS development and understand the emergent client-side patterns. I admit that I haven&…
Modern Site Engineering
Whew. A few weeks ago, we released our new Square and Card Case apps. Alongside the new apps, the front-end web development team spent a long two, three weeks to launch a new site worthy of our revamped product line.…
HTML5 Madness
I'm conflicted. As a front-end web developer, I should be excited about the advancements in HTML5: the new HTML tags that correct all the hacks and self-replicating divs; the correctly cross-browser rendered styles which have finally caught up…
