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A collection of thoughts and essays about design, front ending and the industry.
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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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
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…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
DRY CSS (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
When we have working with CSS for a few time, we begin to discover one of its dangers. Our CSS increases its lines of code without control…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
Automate your workflow with Grunt
Maybe any of you have tried Ant, Maven or any software similar. At the beginning, they seems hard to configure and difficult to use but…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
The 9 steps towards a great app
The first thing we must know about great apps is that It doesn’t requires a lot of resources, money or big teams to be successful. In fact…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
Refactoring: The way of perfection
If you are a coder, no matter front-ending or back-ending, probably you have felt the frustration of comparing your skills with many other…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
Design / code for people, not for requirements
Whenever we design or implement a new website or app, we tend to think in terms of performance, functionalities, requirements and other…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
Web is not the new desktop
Over the years, many people have writing about the CSS box model, floating theory, specificity and many other basic concepts to develop for…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
Be water my friend
This famous sentence from the Master Bruce Lee is, nowadays, totally adapted to our work as front-enders. Our capacity of adaptability is a…
Alex R Chies
May 11, 2015
The end of the internet
The end of the internet
The last frontier of freedom
Alex R Chies
Jun 13, 2014
Why we need more women in tech
Why we need more women in tech
The more diversity we have, the more innovation we get, the more benefits mankind enjoys and the fairer society we attain.
Alex R Chies
May 22, 2014
How I left Google Reader and improved my flow of info
How I left Google Reader and improved my flow of info
Break the trap of the RSS chains
Alex R Chies
May 6, 2014
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