A collection of thoughts and essays about design, front ending and the industry.

May 11, 2015

The question of multiple H1 tags in HTML5

Since the first versions of HTML5 began to reach the developers, one question appeared over the rest. Is it correct to have more than one H1 tag in our HTML documents?

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

Be focused like successful people

This weekend, I was viewing a lot of videos about successful companies and entrepreneurs. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin as well as companies like Google, Toshiba, 37 signals and much more passed for my TV.

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

In search of perfection: QA in the front

When you are working in any field related to design, the search of perfection is a constant in your life. You must be methodic at the same time than creative, strict at the same time than open-minded. As the famous quote says “the devil is in the details” and…

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

The lack of documentation in the javascript projects

In the last weeks, I have been begun to work with Backbone, Require, Marionette and a lot of javascript libraries for multiple purposes. I really enjoy with this project as I didn’t do for years but I also detect a problem the most of…

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

My promise

I’ve recently discovered The Academy of Design Professionals through Andy Rutledge. The Academy is a group of designers and developers joined around a common proposal: the integrity, professionalism and competence in our industry.

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

QA: The three layers in web design

The best practice in web development, with no discussion, is the three layers. However, much of the people who work in web environments don’t know this practice or disclaim it again and again. They are normally the people who works with Java and .NET technologies and…

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

QA: Linting, linting everywhere

For junior or senior programmers, the need of maintain themselves updated often affects to the quality of their code. Technology advances quickly and we need study everyday to know the last techniques, libraries, updates of the frameworks and much more.

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

QA: Unit tests in Javascript with Jasmine

In the last couple of years, the growth of javascript has been incredible. From a scripting language used to create a few basic animations or short script for validations to a great language in which we can write entire applications.

Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

Is not about accesibility, is about people

The most of the times, when I discuss about accessibility with designers, developers or project managers, I surprised their opinion are totally conviced that accessibility is only an anoyed thing that delay their projects and charge them with extra costs…

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Alex R Chies in Across the mirror

May 11, 2015

QA: Designing names and concepts

One of the most common mistakes when we are coding is don’t pay enough attention to the naming of our CSS Classes, files, JS functions or other things like those.

Developers commonly think that the performance or the able of reusability are in…

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