Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

Designing domain boundaries is a cross-functional activity that requires business, product, and tech input, so you can invite almost anyone to these workshops. Part 1: Domain Discovery The goal of this part of the workshop is for attendees to get an understanding of the business example they will be working with throughout the Kata.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Visualisation techniques like EventStorming can also be used to design code.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”. To humanize the decision-making process and get executives and colleagues on board by showing them what struggles are faced on a daily basis by disabled users using inaccessible products.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Devin Harold. Credit: Devin Harold.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As software testing plays a significant role in the delivery of the final product, it is necessary to consider that the testing process must involve accurate, exhaustive test cases and firm test strategy. Before enacting your automation strategy, create a training document and have multiple meetings and workshops.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Jump to the workshop ?. In code, that looks like this: export async function getServerSideProps(context) { let wildcard = context.req.headers.host.split(".")[0]; This enables you to use wildcards in more than one route without duplicating code as well as speeding up the processing as code execution happens on the edge.

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Servers Website Code Best Practices 84

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the right set of business-centric metrics that focus on the flow of work across the product value stream, IT and business leaders can leverage objective real-time data to identify the bottlenecks slowing them down, inform investment strategy, and measure the impact of changes to steer them in the right direction.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. Jump to the workshop ?. To keep things simple, we’ll take a step-by-step approach to writing the code.

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Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reason we pay so much attention to design (as we do to any other detail in the process of project completion) is that it plays one of the crucial roles in your business success. When it comes to the decision-making process, many businesses make the same mistake over and over again. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

And why, in lieu of a single tool or process, organizations need to identify and eliminate long cycles and wait times within development itself, and beyond. Developers are also highly impacted by activities that happen downstream from code-commit, like testing, deployment, customer support, and operations.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page. As it turns out, we do so just to avoid any disruptions or interruptions of the ongoing process. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live. Aug 18 & 20, 2021.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

As our legacy systems become less maintainable the negative spiral begins: the code is hard to evolve, nobody enjoys working on it, features take ages to deliver, politics ramp up…. Putting Heuristics into Practice We still don’t have a flowchart yet for designing sociotechnical systems but we’re bringing more structure to the process.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. Tool 1: Dolly the Sheep Companies that are heavily rule-based - think insurance - eagerly moved their business rules into code. It was easy to move into code; it's just as easy to move it back into human-readable format.

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Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Whenever a team starts on a piece of work they should own all of the code and infrastructure that needs to change in order to deliver the work. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. Equally, it’s also about the quality of the work and not just the speed.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. There is no code or configuration change necessary to capture data and detect existing services. Step 2: Understand your Dependencies: No Host or Process left alone!

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. We have to specify with great precision in code exactly what our business rules are, and the computer will apply them exactly as we tell it to. We can make exceptions or we can bypass a few steps to accommodate special circumstances that we never anticipated.

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