In the past few weeks, I’ve seen no less than five different companies publish an article documenting their internal CSS frameworks; it’s a fascinating pattern. Getting an inside look at how other people (or companies) are organizing code and what tools they are using is a pretty fantastic way to become a better developer yourself. […]
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Myths & Facts – Websphere Portal and UI.
Having worked as a front end developer, integrating the UI with backend systems, I am presenting below some of the myths and facts concerning UI (html, css, javascript, images, fonts) code integration with websphere portal and a few best practices one should follow – Myth – Websphere portal is not compatible with latest front end frameworks like […]
Dynamically loading the CSS from different site collection
While working on a client project recently, I discovered that I needed to explore the option to load multiple CSS files from a different site collection, a Portal site. Additional site collections, in this case, are connected to the portal site to consume resources including lists and dynamically generated content. This is because there will […]
Shaming Yourself Into Better Code
Last week Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry posted an article that caught my attention. It was simply titled “shame.css.” http://csswizardry.com/2013/04/shame-css/ He talks about the issue all developers face at some point in the life-cycle of a project – having to hack together code to get a defect fixed quickly. It’s the struggle between wanting to keep code […]
3 Frameworks for Creating Reusable Style-based iOS UI Components
Web developers are familiar with the importance of Cascading Style Sheets when developing HTML5 apps. The basic premise is simple, standard look and feel of the elements can be described separately in a CSS definition file and without changing a lot of other code, or simply by applying a different CSS file, you can alter […]
Developer Tutorial: How to Make a Triangle with CSS
Who among us hasn’t at some point in their life thought, “Golly, I wish there were a way I could create triangles with CSS!” Okay, I realize no one has ever actually said that, but while at first glance the topic of creating a triangle using code available to a front-end developer might seem trivial […]
Insights from a Developer: Use Google Web Fonts
Let’s discuss typefaces. As the designer, you have the distinct privilege of selecting the fonts that will be used on the website, and barring client restrictions, you have free reign to use whichever fonts you desire. You should keep in mind when choosing a font, though, that this typeface needs to be present not only […]
Zen Coding in Editplus 3.50
You may already know Editplus as an excellent text editor software. 2012.11.01, Editplus released a new version 3.50, in this version added one more major feature – Zen Coding. What is Zen Coding Zen Coding is an editor plug-in for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core […]
Clean Up Customized CSS Files with CSSCompare
Have you ever come across a SharePoint installation that’s been customized in an unsupported way? You look at the 12 (or 14) hive and see that files have been modified by hand? Not good. As you may know, changing core SharePoint files is unsupported and can lead to problems when patching. The best […]
Books on X/HTML & CSS
Molly Malsam, who always has a variety of interesting posts, just published a short blog on some books helping you to figure out XHTML/CSS. If you need to bone up, check out her recommendation and other books that might fit the bill. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been looking over a number of […]
Books on X/HTML & CSS
Molly Malsam, who always has a variety of interesting posts, just published a short blog on some books helping you to figure out XHTML/CSS. If you need to bone up, check out her recommendation and other books that might fit the bill. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been looking over a number of […]
Customizing Lotus Connections 3.0
Overall, the process of changing Lotus Connections is easier Deploying changes to markup or style sheets is easier. If you are really familiar with style sheets, CSS is the way to go to change your look and feel. There is a new getting started page on the homepage The header and footer now support JSP […]