Web Architecture

What it takes to build a website from front to back, to production

C Brown
What is Headless Drupal?
speckyboy.com - Mike Lander
The goal of this article is to break down what “headless Drupal” (or “fully decoupled Drupal”) is, and what it means for your business.In short, the …
Jul 6, 2017
C Brown
How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Web Design Projects – Shopify
shopify.com
You’re aware there’s competition out there. And you know the key to success is differentiating yourself from your peers in order to stand out and win …
Jun 13, 2017
C Brown
Vector Smart Object6
deliciousbrains.com
If you’ve ever spent any amount of time messing with PHP configuration files to get a file to upload, you know that uploading large files can be a …
Apr 19, 2017
C Brown
UX Design
Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch
TechCrunch - John Mannes
Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb team spent
Apr 25, 2017
C Brown
Jekyll For Wordpress Developers — Smashing Magazine
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Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks 2× a month — delivered right into your inbox. Earlier issues. Jekyll is gaining popularity as a …
Apr 21, 2017
C Brown
How we built Twitter Lite
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We’re excited to introduce you to Twitter Lite, a Progressive Web App that is available at mobile.twitter.com. Twitter Lite is fast and responsive, …
Apr 6, 2017
C Brown
Google's new reCAPTCHA system is so smart, you won't even know it's there
TechSpot - Rob Thubron
During the time you’ve spent as a denizen of the internet, you’ll have doubtlessly come across plenty of Completely Automated Public Turing tests to …
Mar 10, 2017
C Brown
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Developer, Father, Rock Climber, and Paraglider Pilot-in-Exile. Loves APIs, ReST, and full stack development. In this course, we will learn the …
Mar 6, 2017
C Brown
Don’t Write Off the AWS S3 Outage as a Fat-Finger Folly
thenewstack.io - Lee Atchison
As we all know by now, Amazon Web Services had a significant disruption to its Simple Storage Service (S3) service Tuesday. Given the popularity and …
Mar 7, 2017
C Brown
Turns out, making 200 http requests in sequence is slower than making them at the same time. Who knew.
Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS v PHP | Phil Sturgeon
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Nov 12, 2013
C Brown
Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of — Smashing Magazine
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Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks 2× a month — delivered right into your inbox. Earlier issues. Have you ever wanted to use a particular …
Mar 24, 2016
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Vector Smart Object6
deliciousbrains.com
Our new product Mergebot is getting very close to the stage of being ready to put in the hands of our beta testers. As such I went through the …
Oct 25, 2016
C Brown
The 10 Best Web Development YouTube Channels
The Balance - Laurence Bradford
YouTube makes it pretty easy to waste time. Hours can slip by as you watch skits or snicker at cat videos. However, the site also offers some great …
Aug 28, 2015
C Brown
Skills certification coming for developers
infoworld.com - Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, whose coverage focuses on application development.
The IT industry has long used professional certifications to verify proficiency in technologies from companies like Microsoft and Novell. Now, …
Jan 27, 2017
C Brown
Laravel Dusk Is Coming to Laravel 5.4
laravel-news.com - Diaa Fares
When you write end-to-end tests, Laravel provides a set of useful helper methods which make it easy to click a link, fill an input field, or submit a …
Dec 27, 2016
C Brown
Why We Chose
gitlab.com - Jacob Schatz
I had a great conversation with an interviewee a few weeks ago about how one should go about choosing a JavaScript framework.He pointed out that when …
Oct 20, 2016
C Brown
A Tool To Make Webpages Load 34 Percent Faster
Popular Science - Dave Gershgorn
The developers, at MIT and Harvard, will be making it public soon The worst part of navigating the internet is the wait. While you stare at a white screen, your computer (or let's be real, your phone)
Mar 9, 2016
C Brown
Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy
The Guardian - Sam Thielman in New York
Module pushes out false story about Fox’s Megyn Kelly, offensive Ann Coulter headline and a story link about a man masturbating with a McDonald’s sandwich Just months after the discovery that Facebook’s
Aug 29, 2016
C Brown
A Case Study on Boosting Front-End Performance
css-tricks.com - Guest Author
The following is a guest post by Declan Rek, who works as a developer at De Voorhoede, a front end tech agency. A version of this article was …
Aug 18, 2016
C Brown
Using A Static Site Generator At Scale: Lessons Learned — Smashing Magazine
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Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks 2× a month — delivered right into your inbox. Earlier issues. Static site generators are wonderful, even …
Aug 2, 2016
C Brown
Introducing Laravel Passport
mattstauffer.co - Matt Stauffer
API authentication can be tricky. OAuth 2 is the reigning ruler of the various standards that you might consider, but it's complex and difficult to …
Nov 22, 2016
C Brown
Consistent Selenium testing with Docker
Medium - Garren
To improve the stability of Fauxton we wrote a lot of Selenium tests to check for any regressions in the user experience. These tests have been …
Jul 20, 2016
C Brown
This is what Amazon’s homepage looked like when it launched 21 years ago this month
Quartz - Anne Quito
Long before it became the world’s go-to, online source for virtually anything, Amazon.com was strictly a bookseller. And before the arrival of its slick, obsessively considered menus, navigation bars,
Jul 18, 2016
C Brown
This genius created a text editor in less than 1000 lines of code | TheTechNews
thetechnews.com - by Selene Kyle
This genius created a text editor in less than 1000 lines of code A couple of weeks ago there was this news that the tiny cool program named Nano …
Jul 17, 2016
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Source Code
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
Quartz - Keith Collins
When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent
Jul 9, 2016
C Brown
A Warning About jQuery 3
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Update: Since we published this blog post, the jQuery team released version 3.1.0 to specifically address this issue. Now, exceptions in the ready …
Jul 5, 2016