Web Development: metaprogramming to reduce effort and friction
Developing medium and large websites means you should optimize your code, both on the server and on the client. This article will focus on techniques that front-end web developers should use to help reinforce and streamline good practices. Code to a standard Code to a standard. If you develop with others, write that standard (any [...]
Posted at 7:21 am on 2011/05/18 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Web Development | Tagged: Capistrano, Closure Compiler, CSS, git, HTML, JavaScript, JSHint, JSLint, JSMin, Juicer, minify, munge, S3up, Selenium, SVN, Web Development, Xenu's Link Sleuth, yui compressor | read on
XHP: a Frontend Engineer’s first impressions
XHP What is it? About a year ago, FaceBook open-sourced XHP, their front-end technology that sits on top of PHP. To say it “sits on top of PHP” is technically inaccurate because it is really just a PHP extension that allows the PHP parser to understand and use XML literals. It also understands the context [...]
Posted at 7:15 pm on 2010/11/15 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Web Development | Tagged: FaceBook, Frontend, HTML, XHP, XML | read on
