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In times of financial crisis a company should be more than happy to have plenty of work, but when that work keeps piling up and time proves itself unwilling to bend, measures need to be taken. And so Internet Architects, the company I work for, is looking to reinforce its development team. Here's your chance.
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The job of a front-end developer is a challenging one. Our job is not one of rules but of recommendations and best practices. With each project we try to improve our skills and hope to get better at what we do, but the path to success isn't always very clear. We can learn a lot from our past mistakes, but having a bit more grip on how to improve ourselves can be equally stimulating. This article will tell you where to start.
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Sometimes a long-lasting, nagging problem can take concrete form in the weirdest of circumstances. Something that's been bothering you for a very long time at a rather subconscious level suddenly leaps forward and calls out for immediate attention. More concretely, this article will be about a css combinator oddly lacking from our list of options, not even mentioned in the latest css3 specs (as far as I know).
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I already hinted at it in my list of smelly web development stuff of 2009, but the decline of standards is ready to become a big issue for us front-end people in 2010. We've been fighting the fight for web standards for a long time now, but it seems that impatience and overeager attitudes are taking over. My take on the issue.
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The world of web development is particularly prone to hypes and magic of the day. Every week there's a new best thing ever, often hyped by leaving out all the bad stuff. 2009 was not much different from the years before. This article is a little recap of the smelly stuff they tried to force down our throats.