Making an application work offline can be a daunting task. In this article, Matthew Andrews, a lead developer behind FT Labs, shares a few insights he had learned along the way while building the FT application. Matthew will also be running a “Making It Work Offline” workshop at our upcoming Smashing Conference in Freiburg in mid-September 2014. — Ed. via Building …

Thanks to the addition of cameras to our mobile devices taking photos has become easier than ever. No longer are we forced to struggle through text or an actual phone conversation to describe an object, person or scene. With a simple click of a button and the press of the good old trusty “send” button we are only seconds (depending …

Many times on SitePoint I’ve mentioned how achieving good performance is a main concern today and how you should strive for fast web pages. In some articles of mine about JavaScript APIs, such as Introduction to the Resource Timing API and Discovering the User Timing API, I gave you all the power you need to know what’s slowing down your …

Over the past couple of years, the differentiation between front- and back-end web development has become much more distinctive. While traditional programming skills used to be the domain of the back-end via Git & GitHub for Front-End Developers.