Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechHow we break asynchronous workflows without noticingRemote working is rapidly becoming a standard mode of working. Even in co-located work environments days of working from home are becoming…Dec 18, 2018Dec 18, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechUsing context switching to your advantageHey there, did i just distract you? Was that voluntary or did someone say ‘you have to read this, right now’? Because, you know, as far as…Dec 2, 2018Dec 2, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechGetting some traction with open-sourceHere at THE ICONIC we love open-source. Why wouldn’t we? None of our code could live without it. It’s not always easy for businesses to see…Aug 30, 2018Aug 30, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechThe art of transforming UI features into componentsProbably the biggest cultural effect React had in the front-end space is that it manifested component-driven approaches to UI development —…Jul 26, 2018Jul 26, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechWhat we learned from building a high-performance ecommerce site in Angular.JSIn 2014 we converted our old jQuery based front-end to an AngularJS one in a several months long effort to rewrite most of the code. This…May 9, 2018May 9, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechOur revised Google Tag Manager practicesHere are some of the things we implemented in the recent revamp of our GTM implementation that we think might be worth sharing.Apr 9, 2018Apr 9, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechLoad external JS via Custom JavaScript variables in Google Tag ManagerOne of Google Tag Manager’s most powerful features, Custom Javascript variables, provides a great way to load 3rd-party tracking scripts on…Apr 2, 2018Apr 2, 2018
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechTwo simple ways to optimise Redis access in a PHP front-end applicationAs you may know from previous posts we always look for new ways to improve the page load performance of our web application.Jan 10, 2017Jan 10, 2017
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechBreakpoint detection without layout thrashingWhen you implement responsive websites, you will sooner or later run into the problem of your JavaScript code needing to know the current…Apr 8, 2016Apr 8, 2016
Andre WyrwainTHE ICONIC TechThe smallest font loader you will findYou know the font loading dilemma way too well. If you use custom fonts you get either FOUT or FOIT depending on your browser. Since we use…Nov 5, 2015Nov 5, 2015