(Originally posted on ThinkShout.com) It’s November 2015, and Drupal.org is rolling out Drupal 8 release candidates! Heck, Drupal 8 is coming out this week. For many devs, that means we need to figure out how to install, sync, and set up a site theme. Here at ThinkShout, learning is part of the job – we …
A little over a year ago, I switched from PC-based front end development, to Apple/Mac based development. I had been doing Mac and PC desktop support in my previous job, so I was used to OSX, the Mac OS. However, the switch also required me to upgrade the tools I use on a daily basis, …
Web development is a great field to work in for a lot of reasons, but for me the best reason is the variety. One day you’ll be adding a guest editor to a high-volume cooking website, the next day you’re adjusting the responsive menu on a drug-culture magazine, and the day after that you’ll be tweaking the …
One of our flagship AOL client sites, KitchenDaily.com decided that they wanted Ashe Avenue to implement a responsive solution. We’ve been rolling out more responsive sites lately (including AsheAve 2.5) so we were excited to get this excellent site working smoothly on devices of unusual sizes.
The Front-end Job Interview Questions list (https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions) is pretty awesome–if you’re an employer. It gave me the idea to have a list of questions for front-end developers to ask prospective employers. These questions cover employers who are large enough to have a dedicated development team. It should work reasonably well for both agencies and companies …
If you’ve ever set CSS background colors to semi-transparent, you’ve had to make the cross-browser compatible. Here’s the basic code: background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=1); filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#cc0E212A, endColorstr=#cc0E212A); -ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#cc0E212A, endColorstr=#cc0E212A)”; The first line is for all the modern browsers, the next three for MSIE varients (IE7, IE8, etc). Important to note – don’t …