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3 Essential Design Trends, October 2017

Every designer loves breaking the rules every now and then. This month’s web design trends highlight some of the rebellious spirit in ways that look amazing. The key to all these rule-breaking designs is that the rest of the interface is simple and actually follows the rules. From text that doesn’t stay in its “container” […]

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It’s true that 47 percent of people want web pages to load in two seconds or less (and 40 percent abandon sites that take three seconds to load). But when load times drop significantly below that two-second threshold, users start to get skeptical. To understand why, put yourself in the shoes of someone checking his credit score. […]

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Google: How to Move From Separate Mobile URLs to One Responsive URL

Google is continuing its campaign toward a more responsive internet with advice on how to migrate separate mobile URLs into one. Site owners who went the mobile-friendly route with separate m-dot URLs, like m.example.com, may find themselves wanting a single responsive site. With any major site change, it’s important to be aware of the signals you’re sending […]

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GitHub is converting its Atom text editor into an IDE

Atom, GitHub’s text editor built on the Electron framework, is being fitted with IDE-like capabilities as a precursor to making the editor a full-fledged IDE. The first step in Atom’s transition from text editor to IDE is an optional package of features developed with Facebook called Atom-IDE. The package includes: smarter context-aware auto-completion an outline view go to definition […]

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Jenkins Blue Ocean UI to provide code quality insights

Blue Ocean, the new user interface for the popular Jenkins continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, will begin incorporating insights into code quality trends and static analyses, under an improvement plan detailed this week by the project’s creator. The goal is to improve the developer’s visibility into the health of software projects, Blue Ocean […]

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How to Fix the Most Common Magento SEO Issues

Magento is often regarded as a challenging e-commerce platform to achieve technical excellence with. Despite its complex rewrite engine, codebase, and dynamic content and URLs, leading global brands such as Burger King, Coca-Cola, and Tom Dixon all use the platform. Magento boasts a number of great achievements including increasing sales and user time on site, as […]

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GitHub’s Atom editor gets a speed boost

GitHub has just released an upgrade to its “hackable” Atom text editor, adding a native C++ buffer and rewriting the DOM interaction layer. The company also has offered a glimpse of the next version, which will improve Git integration and PHP support. With this week’s Atom 1.19 release, a native C++ text buffer boosts responsiveness and memory […]

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WHAT’S NEW IN ANGULAR 5: EASIER PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS

Angular, Google’s popular JavaScript framework for building mobile and desktop applications, has had a whirlwind year, with two major upgrades in the past 11 months. It will reach the next milestone in its six-month release schedule in September, when Angular 5 is due to debut with major accommodations for Google-driven progressive web apps. Despite the “5” designation, the […]

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