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 […]

Love it or hate, JavaScript is everywhere. Recently, I took another step toward assimilation by attending the Big Nerd Ranch Front-end Essentials bootcamp. And… all biases aside, IT WAS GREAT! I began the week with two goals: How to even modern CSS? React Native sounds cool, but how to test? Thankfully, the answer to my first goal […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Python or JavaScript? While we’re still arguing over which has the upper hand or the brighter future, little doubt exists as to which owns the web’s front end. It’s JavaScript in the browser or nothing. Well, maybe not nothing. JavaScript is a favorite target language for “transpilers” that convert one programming language into another (see: TypeScript, Emscripten, Cor, Cheerp). And Python’s […]

Viget Labs has published a data layer for Facebook’s popular React JavaScript UI library. Called Microcosm, the open source tool manages state and data flow for React applications, keeping track of user actions even when users switch context or lose connectivity. Formally introduced to the public this month, Microcosm reduces the need for boilerplate code and keeps […]

Search marketing can bring lots of benefits to your business and provide great marketing ROI. If you do it right, organic search provides you with a high-quality source of qualified traffic. However, SEO is much more than keywords and links. There are lots of technical aspects to SEO that, if you’re not careful, can trip you up […]

A live search is an enhanced search form that uses AJAX technology to deliver results or suggestions within the same view. This is different from a regular HTML input field that is given autocomplete powers from a modern browser like Chrome, Firefox or Safari. A live search is often an input field that has been programmed to load suggestions […]