Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Sarah Oke Okolo 2023-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 2023-04-21T11:15:35+00:00 Web Workers are a powerful feature of modern web development and were introduced as part of the HTML5 specification in 2009.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The huge popularity of value stream management (VSM) in software delivery — Forrester, GigaOm and Research In Action have published reports on the market in recent months— stems from its ability to help IT leaders to better align their software delivery with business outcomes and strategy. Register for a Value Stream Management Workshop.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Acknowledging the myriad challenges posed by existing development processes and disconnected toolchains in scaling software innovation, the GigaOm Radar for Value Stream Management report provides further guidance on the necessary capabilities to successfully adopt this critical practice required to be successful in the Age of Software. .

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In Part 1 , we’ve covered the side effects of low-quality CSS codebase on end-users, development teams, and management. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Adrian Bece.

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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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Tasktop

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to a generous fitness allowance program , the company is also working with a third party to provide teams with online mental health classes and workshops. Senior Systems Administrator, Michelle Santos, embraced a different type of cloud at Golden Ears Provincial Park in BC. How did Tasktopians Recharge? Learn more.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Usually, this is correlated with an increase in complexity, because to make a domain more differentiating you need to develop greater expertise and capabilities in that area. The Strategy Cycle. Domains can also be evolved downwards.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. Online Resources to develop relevant skills. Here are a few online resources that will help your friend to develop robust software testing skills to soar high in the career. Mosley and Bruce A. What do testers do?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For example, later in this article, we’ll be developing a web toy that flips a webpage upside down making it readable for Australians. 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

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

.” Carol Willing , a member of the Python Steering Council and a core developer of CPython, also celebrates these projects—like the Binder service, which promotes reproducible research by creating an executable environment from your Jupyter Notebooks—particularly as they expand beyond their initial aims.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To improve the quality of a software product built by developers, software testing is the key. 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. Lack of Supervision.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase. Once the workshop was over, we got to work. Identifying The Bottlenecks. So what’s then?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Jake Archibald.

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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. There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today. Ten years ago, I was leading an inception for a company replacing their fleet maintenance systems. Why not put them back on the payroll?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Keeping those in sync is hard to do — so, please help a fellow developer out and don’t do it.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. For that, a web developer’s headline toolbox contains six levels ( <h1> to <h6> ).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors. Participation by web developers and browser engineers. A well-functioning WG should include both developers and implementers, after all. Essential Ingredients.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

They often compete with product/feature development work, resulting in them falling flat and failing to deliver the promised business benefits that triggered them. To help answer those questions, this article covers when to form an AMET and how to do it effectively by following a structured approach we have been developing over the past year.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In most sectors where risks are understood and perceived as critical, quality assurance inevitably develops. It also led me to write a book about web quality assurance and the forewords of eight more books about UX, ecodesign, CSS, frontend development, amongst others. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. During one workshop, I asked a developer “How often does this go wrong?”. There was an industry expert consultant in the workshop.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ 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 UX. Jump to online workshops ?. Now is a good time to use your developer tools to check your contrast. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. 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

JULY 19, 2021

Automated testing is an interesting part of the development cycle. Some clients or stakeholders are able to clearly see the value they provide, but others would prefer any development time spent on pure feature development. Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. Unit Testing.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Most companies have their own language for talking about products, platforms, systems, value streams and so on. Not all parts of a system are considered to be part of a product. It’s worth highlighting that platforms should still be developed in product mode. The top 3 levels of Ross Clanton et al.’s I call these platforms.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sometimes, this can be achieved with relatively minimal disruption, like when the products are highly distinct and can be developed fully in-parallel. The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. This is often not the case, however. Uber started life as a ride-hailing product.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Or perhaps there is no mistake on our end at all, and it’s a system bug that’s absolutely out of our control. Usually buttons are disabled because the interface requires user’s input. Example: Swedish public transportation website.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

These overlaps and key themes will serve as a jumping-off point for developing your own principles, relevant to your team, organization, and industry. There truly is no right or wrong way to do this, however, following a typical ideation workshop framework will really help add rigor to the process. Credit: Devin Harold.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. In this article, we’ll share a few easy-to-learn techniques that will help you to get the most out of EventStorming so you can design more domain-aligned software systems. Then model each of these processes?—?look

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. As we also saw, however, this system was very complex , causing it to often be badly used and implemented in practice (see the image below). Image source: Andy Davies ) ( Large preview ). However, while QUIC integrates with TLS 1.3,

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