May 2012
3 posts
Five things startups should consider when hiring
Not playing the “You can get a pice of the pie” card too soon
Invest in solid office equipment. Quality does not mean too expensive
Communicate often and be open and transparent with employees
Let people use the tools they are used too working with for increase productivity
Inspire your employees to do great things and trust people to do their job and do it well
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CSS frameworks can hurt usability and slow you...
I was faced with a tough question today. My boss wants me to redo everything I have built for the last few weeks using Twitter Bootstrap. Now I have nothing against TB as a framework, specially for teams that do not have a dedicated front-end programmer. But for teams that have one and that person is also the designer, forcing him to use a 3rd party framework can have some negative drawbacks.
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JavaScript depended web apps are fine!
Almost all web users have support for JavaScript (Even 98.4% of screen reader users have JS enabled) but when does it make sense to ignore Progressive Enhancement and go full JavaScript?
The innovation in the JavaScript world is lightning fast, new frameworks are popping up like mushrooms all over the place and yet many developers are being guilted into not take advantage of these new...