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One thing I really hate about agile front-end dev is the lack of formatting standards between devs. Some developers block their rules, others keep everything on one line. Some indent their rules, others don’t. The list goes on and on. I have a list of formatting rules that my team has adopted and all the [...]
I recently got into a project that was a bit over my head. I had to build out a map that will work on desktop, mobile and tablets the same, but I quickly ran into issues tracking touch events in mobile Safari. All of the testing I was doing in iOS5 (beta) was working the [...]
There are thousands of WordPress Plugins out there, but it takes a lot of time and trial to find the ones that are truly exceptional. After years of building custom websites, I’ve decided to refine and publish my master list of plugins (for the user, not the dev) that are awesome or essential to nearly [...]
Magento has made it really easy to get Static Content from within a CMS page with the use of widgets, but say you’re developing a custom theme, you may want to call a static block programmatically in a Magento theme in which case there are a few methods of doing so…