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Being a short burst coding guy
One thing that is starting to be clear as I evolve into web programming is that I have a lot of problems with personal projects that take more than 3 months from start to “finish”...
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SAQ.com UX overview, why and how to fix it
There are some things in this world you have no choice to live with, for us Quebec citizens, the SAQ is one of them. You see, in Quebec selling alcohol is illegal, only our government can do that. As...
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The road to mobile web application development
It seems every web company get to that problem one way or the other. Should you leverage your web expertise and try to simply create a mobile web app or go completely native?
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Simple build script to minify and concatenate files using node.js
When you look to choose for a build system, you are certainly not confronted with a lack of choices. There is a ton of build technics out there and choosing one can easily become a long mission for...
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Html5 drag’n drop file upload, shenanigans used only by developers?
Uploading files has been done since the ice age of web development. In fact uploading a file using Html4 and an iFrame is pretty easy and does not even require a page refresh and about 0 line of code...
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The jQuery 1.9 & 2.0 upgrade akwardness
Using jQuery is the easiest way to add interactions to a website. The api is intuitive, easy to use, the documentation is solid, it works cross-browser & that api very rarely changes. Or was.
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Death to monolithic libraries
If you write code for the web you have dealt with them, gigantic libraries that does everything for you in one nice package. I’m not talking about utilities libs & frameworks like jQuery and...
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Data mining user behaviors in web apps
Do you currently track user behaviours? Most people would say yes, if you have google analytics installed you do track behaviors, at least a form of it. But do you do the extra mile to understand your...
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jQuery Engage, a plugin taking a stab at better engaging blog readers
Optimizing user interactions is a never ending quest in software development. Fortunately in our time and age innovative ideas are rapidly incorporated and improved by other developers. In that mindset...
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iPresent, mobile mockups presenter
Creates a prototypes from mockups images created by a designer
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The weird state of mobile web apps
There are countless of articles debating going native or HTML5 for your next mobile app. But with Linkedin recently deciding to going back to native I am really starting to ask myself if HTML5 is still...
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How to style select, radio & checkbox form elements only with css
Form elements have always been a problem for designers, they are ugly as fuck and never match a website or app style. In an earlier age javascript plugins popped up to solve this problem, at the...
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Releasing Backbone.js Mobile Components
Doing mobile web apps can be challenging, not that it’s really harder than doing desktop style app, it’s just different. Working with mobile you need to focus on simplicity & performance.
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Selling a side project for almost nothing..
Today I feel a bit dirty, I just sold WeddingDeck after putting more than 100 hours in it for a couple of hundred dollars. Would I recap WeddingDeck’s life, I think I would describe a lot of side...
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Tap & click events in mobile web apps, the madness has to stop
You should know by now that when you click on a link in the ios mobile browser there is a 300ms delay. Not so many people know where this come from, in fact it comes all the way back from 2007....
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An html5 app turned native in 10 minutes with phonegap build? It’s possible,...
By now I’m pretty sure you know of PhoneGap. The framework that enables you to put an html5 app in a web view & push it into the different appstore. But do you know about PhoneGap Build? Intended...
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PhoneGap build, 6 frustrating issues explained
Phonegap & phonegap Build are amazing technologies, unfortunately the documentation does not always tell you want you want to know. Here a compilation of issues I encountered while using phonegap...
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Agile workflow with GitHub issues
GitHub is a very interesting always evolving product, it is becoming more & more the go to software to centralize (yeah I know..) your company repositories but also (and more importantly) keep...
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About including design in the same sprint than development or to do it 1...
One tough question that product managers seem to be split in half. In web development, design is often a big part of the product & takes a bigger place than in a conventional software product. That...
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