Man, what a week it has been. As you may have noticed it’s been a few days too many since my last post. The reason for that is a hectic week at work has prevented me from having time.
Now that the week is over and it was hectic because of my own stupidity, I mine as well write an article about it to save you some time. (more…)
Are you a person who dislikes frameworks? Or are you a person who loves frameworks? Or are you even a person who isn’t quite sure what a framework is? The following article will discuss the pros and cons of frameworks and the common downfalls that people fall into.
I’m not sure if it’s only people I meet or a world-wide thing, but it seems people do not like to use frameworks (at least at first). At my work, we use them on every new project. So, when a new hot shot developer joins our team, we inevitable get to have the battle of “Ugghh, I don’t want to use a framework I want to code my way and only my way”.
If this is your typical response to frameworks, I suggest you continue to read and let me enlighten you on why we live and die by our frameworks. (more…)
I’m guessing I probably got your attention with this one? I’m also guessing that you cannot scroll down fast enough to the comments box and start typing a bunch of nasty messages to me.
WAIT! Before you do that, let me explain why. (more…)
This article is a continuation to my article about Firebug. YSlow is an add-on to Firebug that helps developers determine why a site is loading slowly.
After you install YSlow, if you open up Firebug in Mozilla a new tab will now appear called “YSlow”. The next steps would be to load a web site that you want to check it’s performance. After the web site has loaded, click the YSlow tab, if the results don’t compile automatically, click the Performance button to run the diagnostics.
The grading is made up of 13 steps. For each step you receive a grade from A to F. An overall grade is compiled in the same format. (more…)
I think a good place to start is to describe one of my favorite tools. It’s called Firebug, it’s an add-on for Mozilla browsers.
At work, if one of my co-workers comes to me in the J-Block and asks a Javascript or CSS question, before I even consider helping them I ask if they reviewed the styles or the Javascript in Firebug. 9 times out 10 if it’s a really easy answer, you’ll see it almost immediately with the help of Firebug. (more…)