It is fun to plant and harvest new crops in my garden, but I’ll eventually wake up to a mess if I don’t regularly weed. While each weed isn’t a problem by itself, they combine forces to choke the system. Working in a weed-free garden is a productive pleasure. Codebases are like this too.
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27 Search Boxes With HTML and CSS
CSS experiments with a search form input and button. In this collection are the pens for anything related to search box, search bar, global search area that we can put to a website page. Searching Animation Inspired by Another Set of Eyes by Frank Rodriguez.
The Beauty Of React Native: Building Your First iOS App With JavaScript (Part 1)
The idea of building mobile apps with JavaScript is not new. We’ve seen frameworks like Ionic1 and PhoneGap2 take on the challenge, and to some extent succeed in gaining a fair amount of developer and community support. To part 23 of the tutorial.
Train your IT team for endurance
Believe it or not, there’s an incorrect way to run. Despite nearly 9 years as a runner and lackluster endurance athlete, I recently found out that I was, indeed, doing it wrong.
Introducing Hot Reloading
React Native goal is to give you the best possible developer experience. A big part of it is the time it takes between you save a file and be able to see the changes. Our goal is to get this feedback loop to be under 1 second, even as your app grows.
How do JavaScript closures work?
Like the old Albert Einstein said: “If you can’t explain it to a six-year old, you really don’t understand it yourself.”. Well, I tried to explain JavaScript closures to a 27-year old friend and completely failed.
A CSS Multi-column Layout Tutorial for Beginners
Reading very long lines of text can be problematic for some people. They will have to focus more on not missing a line instead of the text itself. This problem is easily solved by using multiple columns to lay out the content. Multiple columns are ubiquitous in print media.
How the Web Works: HTTP and the Web Server
The web is built on the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). When we go to a web page, our browser makes requests to a web server. The web server processes our request and ultimately sends a response.
Hands On Postgres Sharding Craig Kerstiens
Back in 2012 I wrote an overview of database sharding. Since then I’ve had a few questions about it, which have really increased in frequency over the last two months. As a result I thought I’d do a deeper dive with some actual hands on for sharding.
Responsive web design: What the Internet looks like in 2016
Offer website visitors the best user experience by designing for each device. Whether a website is being viewed on a phone or computer, or being browsed with a mouse or touchscreen, it should look and function properly.