Tag: front end

50 Performance Tricks to make your HTML5 Applications and Sites faster

BUILD 2012: 50 Performance Tricks to make your HTML5 Applications and Sites faster – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs. Performance is always a concern (as it should be). Building performant, browser-based implementations is an exciting world to live in, especially since new tools are showing up very consistently. In this talk from BUILD […]

Posted: December 03, 2012

Modular Front-End, the book

Modular Front-End, the book. As what I would call a ‘front end guy’ primarily, I’ve worked with a number of ‘back end guys’ over the years who have taken it upon themselves to build out some views that I’ve needed. They’re the first to admit (a number of times) that the markup could be better, […]

Posted: September 04, 2012

A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto

A Front End Engineer's Manifesto. I like this.

Posted: September 04, 2012

Normalize.css Goes 1.0!

Normalize.css: Make browsers render all elements more consistently.. I’ve been a fan of reset stylesheets since learning why they were better than * { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; }. There have been any debates over time concerning whether reset stylesheets accomplish their goal or simply create more work for us. That mindset brought about the concept […]

Posted: August 18, 2012

Announcing real IEs for Browserling

Announcing real IEs for Browserling – good coders code, great reuse. While not the most enamoring topic, I’m glad to see that people are still working on browser testing solutions. My process still involves a series of virtual machines, each with snapshots allowing me to work with native installs of a range of Web browsers. […]

Posted: May 23, 2012

CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering

CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering | Onextrapixel – Web Design & Development Online Magazine. In contrast to a more high level approach to organizing and implementing CSS, this article looks at the nitty gritty performance enhancements and bottlenecks you may be dealing with. Performance is always of high concern when engineering the […]

Posted: May 08, 2012

Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub – JP’s blog

Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub – JP's blog. This is awesome and worth your time to read if you’re a front end developer. The front end space, although expanding faster than anything, is super exciting in that the problems to solve are really unique. Performance concerns can be addressed in a number of ways, […]

Posted: April 30, 2012

A Baseline for Front-End Developers

A Baseline for Front-End Developers – Adventures in JavaScript Development. This is full of great. Front end development has matured extensively over the past few years, and rightfully so. The space itself is finally starting to come around to being a legit environment we can work in, as opposed to a world without consistency or […]

Posted: April 13, 2012

Google’s “Let’s Make the Web Faster” Movement

Google’s Let’s Make the Web Faster and Page Speed Firebug add-on can help you optimize your Web pages.

Posted: June 29, 2009