Simplicity in CSS

I really like the current discussions going on in the web development community on how to handle CSS in a growing web application. There are some great ideas out there which try to push the boundaries of the constraints CSS is giving us. When I started what I called `programming` 6 years ago in…

Why “Build Shit in CSS?”

A few years back, I gave a short talk on CSS to a group of programmers at a Giant Tech Company. The audience: a small group of pretty smart (but junior) developers who built web apps every day.

GraphQL Tour: Interfaces and Unions

GraphQL’s type system is the distinguishing feature in comparison to other protocols like REST, Falcor, and JSON Schema. Interfaces and Unions are two of the more nuanced aspects of the type system, but prove valuable in any non-trivial product. Let’s take a closer…

ASP.NET MVC part2

The C of ASP.NET MVC

The Controller, after creating your project you would see a folder named Controller. This folder will contain your controller classes which are responsible for user input and responses. Within this folder you will notice that you already…

Rails Internationalization in the real world

Or also: How to i18n-ify an already started project

It’s a great idea, when starting a new Rails project, to start working with i18n even if the project is not supposed to have multiple…

Should npm Really Be Used as a Built Tool?

I’d like to talk about one of the web’s new “best practises” and my personal experiences with it. The intention behind this article isn’t to get as much developers as possible away from using npm as a build tool, but rather to contribute to a large…