Formerly known as Atom-Shell, Electron is a very cool new platform for building cross-platform desktop applications, using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. I’ve been playing with this a lot recently, and have been impressed with how […]
Software
This is a cracking opinion piece (or rant if you prefer) about some of the problems with how our industry is based on a LOT of opinion, fashion for new technologies, and lessons that need […]
Dogma Driven Development
This article is well worth checking out. I suspect a LOT of pro-coders will recognise some of these, and this is one that non-technical project stakeholders would benefit from reading too!
Seven Wastes in Software Development
Another older gem from my long list of bookmarks, but still worth reading – to quote the article “software development remains rife with misconceptions on productivity, code efficiency, offshoring, and more” – Myths #1 and […]
Seven programming myths – BUSTED
Those of you on Facebook (And I reckon that’s most of you…) will recall the “looking back” videos that went out on Facebook earlier this year. If you stop and think for even a moment […]
Looking back on the FaceBook look back videos
While there has been some controversy around Apple’s latest “Yosemite” iteration of OSX, there have been some cool additions, one of which has been the new ability to use JavaScript for automation, its now easier […]
JS Task Automation on OSX by example
SLOCCount is an easy-to-use tool that counts Source Lines of Code (SLOC). It auto-determines the language(s) (inc. C, C++, Ada, Assembly, shell, COBOL, C#, Fortran, Haskell, Java, LISP/Scheme, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL). It also […]
SlocCount – A tool to count lines of source code.
Yeoman is an open source project which defines an opinionated stack for web application development. It includes a golden bundle of tools and frameworks, provided with documentation and authority. The aim is to help developers […]
Yo. You need scaffolding dood!
Matt Bailey has updated his excellent original Beginners Guide to Grunt to include what he has learned in the last year or so. The article covers a lot of useful information, including development and production […]
A Beginners Guide To Grunt
LiveReload monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed. Even cooler, when you change a CSS file or an image, […]
LiveReload
I know a lot of developers these days use Chrome for development, but I still find myself going back to Firefox and Firebug – old habits die hard – and now, to celebrate 10 years […]
Firefox Developer Edition
The ninjas over at GitHub have been busy building a superb new tool for coders. With fuzzy finder for quickly opening files, fast project-wide search and replace, multiple cursors and selections , multiple panes, snippets, […]
ATOM. A hackable editor from the guys at GitHub
If you’re looking for a stonkingly strong code editor, with solid support for pretty much anything a web developer needs, including GIT, Grunt, and a huge array of others, then Sublime should be at the […]