Tag: Web development
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Practical guide for UX and Agile website development
Posted on January 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jon-Mikel Bailey wrote this guide to UX and Agile website development. Many experts argue for a more agile approach with sprints based on user feedback and statistical website data. And author agrees that they're not necessarily wrong.
Tags ux web-development
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The art of the error message
Posted on January 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Marina Posniak article about writing clear, helpful copy for when things go wrong. Article about an everyday type of failure that doesn't get much attention in the product development process.
Tags programming web-development
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Lambda architecture at Indix p1
Posted on January 13, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Rajesh Muppalla article about how they at Indix went about implementing stateless lambda architecture for building the big data pipeline. They have built a catalog of several million products and billions of price points collected from thousands of e-commerce websites.
Tags programming web-development cio
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Basics of parallel programming with Swiftlang
Posted on January 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Jan Olbrich wrote article about his and his team experience with understanding topics like concurrency and parallelism. Together you will learn how to program concurrently.
Tags swiftlang programming web-development
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Building Inclusive Web: Why Accessibility Matters
Posted on December 12, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Sami Keijonen has written this good article about accessibility and why it matters. Accessibility matters because we, the people, want to use the web. Working towards an inclusive web helps us achieve that goal.
Tags ux web-development
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Atomic design in web development
Posted on December 3, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dave Rupert blog post which is complenetary to his book about Atomic design. A lot has been said about creating design systems, and much of it focuses on establishing foundations for color, typography, grids, texture and the like.
Tags ux web-development
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Make a Node.js Twitter Bot
Posted on December 2, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ryan wrote neat article about Node.js bot application. It uses the Twitter API in order to make requests for that Twitter Bot, such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, and more. Bots are a fun way to improve your coding skills through creativity.
Tags web-development programming cloud
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HTTP/2 PUSH vs HTTP Preload
Posted on November 30, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Inian Parameshwaran article about difference between HTTP/2 Push and HTTP Preload. HTTP/2 PUSH is a feature that lets a server preemptively push resources to the client (without a corresponding request). HTTP Preload is a way to indicate to the browser resources it would require while loading the current page.
Tags web-development programming devops
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A brief guide to user experience maps
Posted on November 27, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Christopher Ratcliff to the point article about user experience maps. An industry is struggling to agree on one standardised name for the same thing and author tries to find answer why is that.
Tags web-development ux
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How to host Hugo static website generator on AWS Lambda
Posted on November 25, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ilya Bezdelev wrote tutorial how to create a static website publishing platform hosted in the cloud using several AWS services. It will run static website generator Hugo on AWS Lambda, store files in AWS S3 and serve them from AWS CloudFront. This is older (2015) but still very good article.
Tags web-development serverless aws docker
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Web scraping with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless
Posted on November 22, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Emad Ehsan put together article about how to get started with Web Scraping in Chrome Headless. Chrome Headless is going to be industry leader in Automated Testing of web applications. Puppeteer is the official tool for Chrome Headless by Google Chrome team.
Tags web-development big-data machine-learning
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Host static site with Hugo and Firebase for free
Posted on November 21, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Ariya Hidayat short and to the point post about hosting static web site with Firebase. He decided to abandon WordPress for his blog and switch to Hugo to generate the content and Firebase to host it. How did the authoring workflow change due to this switch?
Tags web-development programming containers