The HTML itself is rather trivial, so I won't spend time here going through it. It's available with the rest of the code.
QUnit Functions
Although simple in scope, the QUnit Framework is rather effective. Unlike other unit testing frameworks such as PHPUnit or SimpleTest , it doesn't have a lot of methods and assertions.
That's not to say that isn't fully capable. This is a list of the key tests available: FUNCTION DESCRIPTION ok Assert…
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…kids how to build games with visual programming. We also held workshops to teach kids how to code in HTML and CSS. I fed off the energy of those experiences for months afterwards. I was hooked and knew that having a more prolonged presence in the kids' worlds could only be better.
Last October, I signed up to mentor high school girls in how to develop, pitch and market a mobile application. Technovation Challenge is an awesome program designed to encourage girls to consider …
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…IE8-friendly Foundation 3.
Below is what he came up with, which looks fairly solid.
In the HTML head:
And after the close body tag:
The conditionals determine which version of Foundation IE loads. IE8 and older will grab Foundation 3 code. Others, Foundation 4.
If you use Foundation 4 but need to support older browsers, this unofficial workaround may do the trick.
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HTML, CSS and Javascript
Ability to develop code for mobile applications (including Android)
Experience developing architecture of business analytic applications and systems
Experience providing ongoing application hosting and support of large businesses and start-up companies
Additional Desirable Software Competencies
Experience with C#, Silverlight, WPF, LINQ, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Delphi, HTML5, jQuery, Ajax, Backbone, JS, PHP, XML, Razor, ISS, …
…Internet Explorer versions). Of course, you could use Canvas or any other HTML supported by WebKit just as well.
This is all great in your web browser, but not for emails. First off, obviously, JavaScript
is disabled in HTML emails, so we can't use that to generate the SVG on the fly; moreover
SVG only works in a handful of email clients .
The only image formats that reliably work in HTML emails are GIF, PNG and JPEG , which means we have to dynamically …
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…experience with responsive techniques is needed, but you'll want to have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. Each lesson is 45 minutes long with 15 minutes at the end for any questions you might have.
Topics include:
How to create and organize content for different browsing experiences
Planning layout that presents sites well in any size device
Why contemporary 'flat' design is more than a trend
The code that makes sites respond to browsers' needs
Here's …
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…Adam : Angular, Two-way data binding is the key feature. Synchronization of HTML and your JS. Choose framework with data-binding. Ember is essentially a language, forces its own object model. Backbone as well. Hexagonal or Angular is pure JS.Your application can live outside of Angular. You could use Angular with a Hexagonal app. Backed by Google, more mature than Ember.
Andrzej : Data binding is not as important as you may think. Manual control is not that difficult. Hexagonal …
It makes for a much more difficult to understand source folder for the jekyll or HTML site, since people have to mentally categorize every file and folder into either "part of the site" or "an artifact from the master branch".
It introduces the need to have lines like this in _config.yml to prevent unrelated files from being included in the gh-pages site:
exclude: ./app, ./lib, ./ project.gemspec, ./ Gemfile, ./LICENSE, ./ Rakefile, ./ readme.md, ./features, …
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…with Status Board really didn't take that much effort. For a table, serve up an HTML table. For graph data, wire up some JSON . Need more than that? Drop in an entire HTML page if you need it. There's guides for hooking up your data included, and I was able to test changes locally using xip.io .
I've focused my board to just data I personally need to react to. Exceptions are high? Let's find out why. The queue looks deep? Pitch in and close a ticket or …
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This can feel like 1998, but the web development community has learned a lot since then. Strategies like progressive enhancement and modern tools like Litmus can help us build HTML emails suited for today's Babylon of inconsistent desktop clients, various web clients, tablets, smartphones, and high resolution displays.
§ "Point free concatenative functional programming" sounds way better …