Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. Jump to the workshop ?.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. Then, we’ll remove everything in the styles/ directory (it’s all sample code). If you’re not familiar with this syntax, you can check out “ A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties ”.) Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Jump to the workshop ?. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. The article also provides plenty of code examples to get started with! Jump to the workshop ?. If you’d like to dive deeper into the code, Hakim also published a demo on Codepen. Of course, you can find the full code snippet on Josh’s blog. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Visualisation techniques like EventStorming can also be used to design code.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

Designing domain boundaries is a cross-functional activity that requires business, product, and tech input, so you can invite almost anyone to these workshops. Part 1: Domain Discovery The goal of this part of the workshop is for attendees to get an understanding of the business example they will be working with throughout the Kata.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. The Strategy Cycle. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Jump to the workshop ?. In code, that looks like this: export async function getServerSideProps(context) { let wildcard = context.req.headers.host.split(".")[0]; This enables you to use wildcards in more than one route without duplicating code as well as speeding up the processing as code execution happens on the edge.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

We might have typed in all the right data, and have chosen all the right settings, and perhaps even went to the trouble of finding a working discount code, and even have crafted a perfect gift message. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live. Aug 18 & 20, 2021. Inline Validation Is Never Bulletproof.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. In this workshop, investigate the relationship between air quality and weather using Amazon SageMaker Studio. You must bring your laptop to participate.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Before enacting your automation strategy, create a training document and have multiple meetings and workshops.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

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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.

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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. Tool 1: Dolly the Sheep Companies that are heavily rule-based - think insurance - eagerly moved their business rules into code. It was easy to move into code; it's just as easy to move it back into human-readable format.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

As our legacy systems become less maintainable the negative spiral begins: the code is hard to evolve, nobody enjoys working on it, features take ages to deliver, politics ramp up…. Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Their code is more complex having to support multiple use-cases, and the team becomes a bottleneck?—?multiple Anemic Domains and Envious Consumer (Anti-patterns) You may be familiar with the Anemic Domain Model anti-pattern from Domain-Driven Design and the Feature Envy code smell. anemic domains and envious consumers.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We have to specify with great precision in code exactly what our business rules are, and the computer will apply them exactly as we tell it to. If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Whenever a team starts on a piece of work they should own all of the code and infrastructure that needs to change in order to deliver the work. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. Equally, it’s also about the quality of the work and not just the speed.

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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 this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

New Online Workshops on Smashing. Almost a year ago, we started running our very own online workshops , and each and every one has been an incredible experience to our entire team. Here’s a brief overview of the workshops that we have planned for the **next months**: Dates. Workflow & Code. Workflow, Code.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

However, this simplicity leaves the door open for many potential issues and technical debt — bloated code, specificity hell, duplicated code blocks with very little to no difference, leftover unused selectors, unnecessary hacks, and workarounds, to name a few. Leftover, unused chunks of code from deleted features.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This has the advantage of reducing the amount of code we need to write, and means it’s less likely we’ll forget to cater for users’ motion preferences: @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {.some-element Jump to online workshops ?. In the following code snippet, we have a button that grows in scale on hover.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. We audited the JavaScript that we had, and the majority is from libraries for different tasks, with very little custom code. Practical Things We Did.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better. Have A Team Or Individual Who Is Your Accessibility Advocate(s).

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Developers are also highly impacted by activities that happen downstream from code-commit, like testing, deployment, customer support, and operations. Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy. That’s when bugs, vulnerabilities, and new feature requests are surfaced. Learn more.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Read about our Architecture and Allocation Strategy , how we’ve been Reimagining Experimentation , our Design Principles for Mathematical Engineering , and how we leverage Computational Causal Inference to support innovation and scale on our democratized platform. without having to become software engineers themselves.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As a digital nomad, Vitaly travels all over the world giving inspiring talks and leading top-flight workshops at tech conferences. She also teaches for Black Girls Code, and she founded the Dallas chapter of Girl Develop It and DFW Sass. You can catch Vitaly on Twitter @ smashingmag. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik. Estelle Weyl.

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