Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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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. To paraphrase W.

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t any special systems to provide custom statically generated pages for different wildcard subdomains like you may with dynamic routing for example (where you have [slug].js Jump to the workshop ?. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. 0]) }, []).

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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. The Strategy Cycle. 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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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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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. And vice versa. And memorable. And easy to understand. And reliable.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). As a digital nomad, Vitaly travels all over the world giving inspiring talks and leading top-flight workshops at tech conferences. She works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. Ilya Grigorik.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Let’s progress from theoretical considerations into hands-on code. In the following code block, you see a component listing the newest problems in an online shop. Insight 2: There Are Established Strategies To Tackle Web App Accessibility Problems. Jump to the workshop ?. Check it out ! More after jump! Online, and live.

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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. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies.

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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. Adrian Bece.

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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. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

However, this simplicity leaves the door open for many potential issues and technical debt — bloated code, specificity hell, duplicated code blocks with very little to no difference, leftover unused selectors, unnecessary hacks, and workarounds, to name a few. Leftover, unused chunks of code from deleted features.

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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.”. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. Jump to the workshop ?. You need to adapt your scraper’s code for a specific system , and if you use the same script on a new kind of page, you’d have to rewrite parts of it. Online, and live. Oct 25 – Nov 8, 2021.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. And there’s more research to back it up.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Or perhaps there is no mistake on our end at all, and it’s a system bug that’s absolutely out of our control. 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. Or we’ve overlooked some fine print somewhere.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Most new operating systems enable the user to set their motion preferences in their system-level settings. The prefers-reduced-motion media query (part of the Level 5 Media Queries specification) allows us to detect users’ system-level motion preferences, and apply CSS styles that respect that. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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. If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. I actually saw Gojko’s talk live at NDC OSLO in 2018.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Data Scientists play a vital role in building automated systems that leverage causal inference to decide how we spend our advertising budget. One way we do this is through constantly improving the recommendation systems that produce a personalized home page experience for each of our members.

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