Metrics, Metrics: How We Improved our Website Performance, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebAlthough our site was certainly not slow (thanks to the static build), several metrics showed it could benefit from web optimizations. In this post,...
Metrics, Metrics: How We Improved our Website Performance
Front-End Full-Stack WebOur Nerds love graphs. Developers geek out on numbers, designers labor over information visualization, and ops + marketing love upward trends. Web developers, too,...
Server-Side Validation in Your Ember Application
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebBrowser validation has come a long way, but sometimes you need the server's help to determine whether is something is valid. This post explores...
To Kill -9 a Drone Daemon, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebLast time, (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/blog/to-kill-9-a-drone-daemon-part-1/) to shell into the Linux-powered (http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/rolling-spider/). This time, we’ll telnet...
To Kill -9 a Drone Daemon, Part 1
Front-End Full-Stack WebThis year marks my second visit to JSConf’s paradisiacal backdrop on Amelia Island, and is particularly memorable—the talks demoed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydh_2NRn-c) and [dazzled the...
Music Visualization with D3.js
Front-End Full-Stack WebIn my previous post, we created a bar chart using D3.js.
Create data-driven documents with D3.js
Front-End Full-Stack WebIf your data needs to portray a message and be easily understood, a visualization can really help you get your point across. Enter D3.js....
Backend, Meet Frontend: Managing Assets with Bower
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebDon’t manage vendor assets with Rails gems; use Bower and NPM. Here's a true story of how backend and frontend developers can work together.
How to use Facebook’s React Library to Build UIs, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebIn my previous post, we created a simple UI component with Facebook’s React library. Now, we’ll create data flows between multiple components.
Announcing our Cross-Platform JavaScript Apps with HTML5 bootcamp
Front-End Full-Stack WebWe’re excited to announce that we’ve made our HTML5 Apps with jQuery bootcamp even better. Our new Cross-Platform JavaScript Apps with HTML5 class is...
How to use Facebook's React Library to Build UIs, Part 1
Front-End Full-Stack WebFacebook's React is a JavaScript library for building high performance User Interfaces. As they like to say, it's the just "V" in MVC. Better...
Learning from CSSConf
Front-End Full-Stack WebThis year’s CSSConf was filled with incredible talks from seasoned speakers and amazing first-time speakers alike. Ever since I made it back home, I’ve...
