The mobile web keeps growing at a rapid pace. Smartphones continue to sell strongly, with Apple alone forecasting to bring in $180 billion from its smartphones by 2021. There are over 224 million smartphone usersin the United States, making the mobile web an essential focus for any website owner. The continued growth of mobile web users makes it […]

With Microsoft’s release of .Net Framework 4.7.1 this week, the development platform gains critical improvements to garbage collection, security, and application configuration. To boost memory allocation performance, particularly for large object heap allocations, an architectural change to the garbage collector splits the heap allocation into small and large object heaps. Applications making a lot of large object […]

Short Q&A videos used to be a staple of Google’s webmaster outreach efforts back when Matt Cutts was the head of webspam. This outreach tactic fell to the wayside when Cutts left Google to pursue other career interests. In lieu of Q&A videos, Google has been regularly conducting webmaster hangouts which everyone is free to […]

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” […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]