I need to build a prototype for an intranet website, and I want to focus on usability (layout, navigability, etc) and leave the theme for later (I have very bad taste, so this will probably be done by someone else) I know about ASP.NET's capability of switching themes instantly, but how do I have to design the WebForms for it to be easy...
When hiring a front-end developer, what specific skills and practices should you test for? What is a good metric for evaluating their skill in HTML, CSS and Javascript? Obviously, table-less semantic HTML and pure CSS layout are probably the key skills. But what about specific techniques? Should he/she be able to effortlessly mock up a ...
So I have an IList of business entities that I loop through in a ListView into an unordered list. I created an extension method on this Entity in my presentation layer. In code behind, I can Response.Write the result of this extension method, but when I try to access it through the ListView I get an error. The method is called IsCurrent ...
I've read that "Most of the Spotify back-end is written in Python, with smaller parts in C and Java". Does anyone know what they are using for the front-end? ...
hey, i'm looking for a solution to this problem: i need to create simple almost realtime-like web chat for a website that has multiple fronts. web chat doesnt need any icons anything just nickname time and message. website runs on .net. users that want to chat must be logged into the system. auth for the users its allready handled. t...
I've created a database schema for an internal (CRM like, ~15 tables) application. I would like to "convert" this schema to a usable web application. All details (foreign key, ordinality etc) can be extracted from the schema so I'm looking for a tool that will generate all CRUD code (that can be hosted on a Linux server). Any suggestions...
What's the modern way to clear floated content these days? There's the "recent" modern way of adding a ".clearfix" on the parent element to clear the contained floats and that would work great. In fact, this is my favorite method and still use this on any site I touch. It makes every browser render correctly. However, I know it's sort ...
i have a mac. i wonder which browser (safari or firefox) i should use to develop my prototype, firefox or safari? because i have noticed they will give different effects. some things working in safari dont work in firefox and vice versa. could someone also give me some advices of how to deal with incompatibility problems. ...
there are various good jquery image preview plugins out there. however, all of the ones i've tested havent worked on image links that are embedded in the DOM with ajax. i have tested use jquery live feature, but it doesnt work flawless. $('a.preview').live('mouseover', function() { $(this).imgPreview({ imgCSS: { ...
Hello all, This lot has proved EXTREMELY helpful in the past so I thought I would pose a question with a more open ended answer. I am going to be starting my M.S. in Graphic Information Technology Thesis and I need a topic. I am a web designer and front-end developer working full time in that industry. My adviser prefers we bit off a pi...
Hello, I want to decide which of this would be a more viable career option? I am ready to quit my current job and hence I am looking for new opportunity. Current job is maintainence and no more active development. My current role is of a PHP/MySQL Developer. I very well understand web-programming and am comfortable with RoR/Sinatra/Z...
Hello people, I am wondering what tool(s) do you use for front-end testing... Currently I am using Selenium RC as tool to test the front-end. I am quite happy with the result as I managed to integrate it with the ms build process etc. The problem with Selenium tests is that they are not always reliable especially if you browse with so...
Hi, I wanted to have a GUI front-end for a script that accepts numerous command-line options, most of them are UNIX paths. So I thought rather than typing them in (even with auto-completion) every time, I'd create a GUI front end which contains text boxes with buttons beside them, which when clicked will invoke the file browser dialogue...
I'm a front-end developer and really enjoy jQuery and JavaScript. I've built a lot a websites, done some good jQuery work and built a few JavaScript based applications and would really like to get in UI development. Or so I thought. I guessed it would be pretty similar to what I already do except maybe a little more JavaScript heavy bu...
Hi, I am using jQuery to make a custom carousel. After delivering a jCarousel implementation as part of a project, the test team have raised a lot of bugs and so I decided to write my own as I always find it difficult to find a plug-in that does exactly what I want (need) it to do. My current problem is that I can get it to scroll onc...
I have a very large website that I need to refactor the front-end of due to maintainabilty concerns and performance issues: Whats tricky: Lots of overcomplicated scripts Over-complicated CSS with a whopping filesize No selenium tests in place No js tests in place Back end developers concerned anything breaking The site has been live f...
I use PHP with CodeIgniter(MVC framework). My Question is fairly simple. What according to you is the better approach while working with a slightly complicated website. After planning, and listing all the small and big features of the website and where they are going to be and planning out the tables and columns for the database. I wou...
I've got a serious javascript problem that is hard to reproduce in any of our DEV/TEST/PRD environments. Nonetheless, it is being reported consistently by our customers. Sometimes we think it's browser specific -- sometimes we think it's action specific -- sometimes we think it's cookie related. It's a tough one and we're getting pulled...
I have recently joined an Agile software enginerring consultancy as their sole front end developer. It appears to me that one of the features of the Agile process is that you don't forward invest in features but the way I am being asked to work is to code everything up front thus creating a lot of forward investment. This has lead to a...
I'm building a portfolio for front-end web development, and have been told that it would be best, starting out, to offer to build site pro-bono for people until I have an adequate level of experience and a large enough portofolio to get paying work. Where would be some good places to offer to make front-ends for free as I develop my ski...