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Starting your career in software development | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. February 11, 2015. Starting your career in software development. Last December I was asked to give a quick talk to a bunch of programming undergraduates at Kings College, London. Emboldened by Christmas cheer I said yes”, arranged the date and thought little more about it. Leading a team of front-end developers, but my career path is no gold standard for how to be an amazing software developer. Getting that first job. Later), I have gre...
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Automated CSS testing, or how one CSS coder is now responsible for breaking – and fixing – the build | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. December 23, 2010. Automated CSS testing, or how one CSS coder is now responsible for breaking and fixing the build. For the last six months or so the traditional process of releasing the latest version of our company website has been simplified and automated by one particular bright-eyed, talented young developer with a penchant for Ruby. To publish websites to various test servers. So why not get my front-end work in on the act? The f...
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Browsers | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. October 1, 2016. How to switch your site to https (with zerossl.com). The latest feature I intend to add to my Superstars web app. Are notifications of events finishing and overall winners. This will use the push notification API. Part of the trendy new Progressive Web App movement. My hosting company – UKWSD. Who promise “free SSL certificates and free SSL tools for your website”. In the end the process was pretty simple. You don’...
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How to switch your site to https (with zerossl.com) | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. October 1, 2016. How to switch your site to https (with zerossl.com). The latest feature I intend to add to my Superstars web app. Are notifications of events finishing and overall winners. This will use the push notification API. Part of the trendy new Progressive Web App movement. My hosting company – UKWSD. Who promise “free SSL certificates and free SSL tools for your website”. In the end the process was pretty simple. You don’...
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Move the refresh button in Firefox and IE9 | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. January 26, 2011. Move the refresh button in Firefox and IE9. Here’s my first short post which is about fixing an annoying change that Mozilla revealed in the beta version of Firefox 4. When I downloaded Beta 9 last week I was horrified to see they’d copied Internet Explorer and moved the refresh button from the top left to the top right…. It’s bad enough in IE, but I only ever use IE for testing so the. Update, 11th February 2011.
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Rant | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. January 28, 2011. Easyspace – easy theft. I’m not normally an angry person (well I can be a bit grumpy sometimes), but having to deal with British Internet Service Provider Easyspace. Has got my goat this week. Hellip; →. How to switch your site to https (with zerossl.com). Starting your career in software development. Top five Grunt tasks for front-end development. Styling the HTML5 placeholder.
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Hosting | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. October 1, 2016. How to switch your site to https (with zerossl.com). The latest feature I intend to add to my Superstars web app. Are notifications of events finishing and overall winners. This will use the push notification API. Part of the trendy new Progressive Web App movement. My hosting company – UKWSD. Who promise “free SSL certificates and free SSL tools for your website”. In the end the process was pretty simple. You don’...
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Front-end | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. December 4, 2014. Top five Grunt tasks for front-end development. Into my software development last year it’s not an exaggeration to say it has revolutionised many of my processes. At work we use Grunt throughout the SDLC. Take your pick between Sass. Or the little brother Stylus. But a CSS preprocessor is. These days. I often chose Less and use the lessThemes. Task to automatically compile our files into themed stylesheets. They may no...
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Top five Grunt tasks for front-end development | John Catterfeld's blog
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John Catterfeld's blog. Thoughts of a front-end engineering manager. December 4, 2014. Top five Grunt tasks for front-end development. Into my software development last year it’s not an exaggeration to say it has revolutionised many of my processes. At work we use Grunt throughout the SDLC. Take your pick between Sass. Or the little brother Stylus. But a CSS preprocessor is. These days. I often chose Less and use the lessThemes. Task to automatically compile our files into themed stylesheets. They may no...