Chances are you are living in the past or working on a project that was built in the past that is still marking up content using DIV tags instead of semantic tags like article and section. Don’t …

This is the one aspect of jQuery and well, Javascript, in general, I see newcomers to Javascript and jQuery get caught upon. Heck, I’ve seen veterans get caught up on how to properly cancel and …

Everyone wants to build the next Facebook, the next Google, the next Instagram and the next big thing. The harsh reality is that only a handful of people every so often actually make it. For every …

If you’re like a lot of developers out there, you start your projects off with the best of intentions. No developer ever says, “I am going to make this project a fucking mess, a …

For some time now there has been a slowly growing movement amongst particular designers and developers against WordPress. We’ve seen light CMS’s, decoupled PHP frameworks, open source …

For some weird reason, this very blog has started getting a lot of traffic the last few days, from Google. I wonder if Google have recently tweaked their search algorithm again? I have been trying to …

Firefox has supported CSS variables since version 29 and at present, no other browser supports them. In version 31 of Firefox, Mozilla are once again first to implement the latest working draft from …

First things first, I am not a Ruby on Rails veteran. I am fairly new to the framework, but have dabbled with Ruby before and understand it. Take this post with a grain of salt, this isn’t a …

All responsible/good front-ender developers use some kind of package management these days, whether it be in the form of Composer, Node Package Manager, Component or Bower. If you’re not using …

To the disdain of some, NoSQL databases are well and truly here to stay and everyday proving their worth. The number one question I see being asked is: can I replace MySQL and use MongoDB instead? A …