Getting used to doing things in an agile way can be challenging for everyone in an organization, from senior management all the way to the core team engineer. But applying agile is more than a matter of blindly following the rituals, filling out the artifacts and labeling people with the roles. An agile organization needs to embody the philosophy of …
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 guys, this paradigm is shifting. Front-end developers are nowadays expected to possess a new set of baseline skills, which includes the incorporation of modern software development principles and technical …
There are no true rules in reading. Apart from the visual process which we all share, everything else is utterly intimate and subjective. It can be anything from glancing, scanning, browsing, leafing, watching; some times, it’s selective and non-linear, it’s all about identifying keywords. Other times, it’s conceptual, reflective, it’s in-depth. Slow, fast, precise, functional, symbolic, social, cultural, reading is …
Whether you’re on your own or working in a team, it’s important to keep a close eye on your projects. Project management tools are designed to help you keep track of your tasks, team members and customers. We’ve already looked at the Top 5 Time-Tracking and Top 5 CRM tools, so let’s do the same for project management tools. I …
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 …
Intel XDK is a new tool for developing cross platform mobile applications. It attempts to keep the process simple by including all possible target platforms in one package and collecting several tools that may be familiar and useful to you. In this article I will explain what Intel XDK is and prepare you to start building an app for every …
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 …
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to make more money without working 60 hours a week? Or to have something to offer to people whose budget is too low for your services right now, but who really like your style? If you’re willing to put in a little extra effort up front, information products can be a huge …
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.