Web development

Slow Time … It's well-known that there are time thresholds that affect how we perceive work and affect our flow. If a task takes too long to do, we put it aside or drift to something else. For example, in a recent internal project, we were using AWS…

The swagger / OpenApi documentation standard provides an easy way to help developers use your REST API. Python offers multiple modules to help you generate the swagger doc, and though they already make your life easier, there is always room to make…

I strongly believe that if something isn’t tested, then it probably won’t work. On the other hand, since writing tests can be tedious, any tool to help speed up and simplify testing is always welcome. In a recent project, I had to write the back-end…

When a pythonista devoted to Flask finds himself one day forced to use Django, a framework he used to treat with a bit of disdain until then, he realizes that yes, the grass may sometimes be greener on the other side. Riziq tells us his story:

One of the pillars of user experience is the :hover state; yet, most designers do not consider this state when planning designs. Another important state is :focus: without this specific state, many users would find it practically impossible to…

Imagine that you are in the final stages of moving into a new apartment, and you have just unpacked the last box. You surrendered the keys to your former landlord over a week ago, but you only now realize that you forgot to update your address. If…

Do you use Typescript with Node and Express? Ivan Djokic explains his debugging strategy, one that makes him a superhero:

Form programming in ProcessWire is not complicated, but poorly documented. Guy Verville illustrates the use of the Form API through example:

Over the next two years, we’ll all need to familiarize ourselves with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). In 2021, they will become the new standard under Ontario’s accessibility laws. 

Spiria recently changed content management system for its Web site and blog. They converted from Drupal to ProcessWire. Guy Verville, Director of Web Strategy, goes over the technical aspects of this transition.

The fetchingly-named Statamic is a neat flat file CMS built on Laravel. Compared to its closest competitor, October, Statamic seems more evolved. But let’s have a look.

Launched in 2014, and officially in a stable version since 2016, October is a newbie in the overpopulated CMS world. Yet it has quickly made a splash in the heart of the Laravel community, the framework that powers this CMS.

In the crowded CMS market, original and high-performing products are hard to come by. Craft is part of a small group of elegant and user-friendly CMSs. As a bonus, you don’t need to be a seasoned programmer to tame this beast. It’s no wonder that…

Programmers who work with CMS tend to fall into two categories: those who love working in feature-rich environments, and those who prefer a blank page, driven by an API that respects proven practices such as object-oriented programming and the MVC…

Our impressions of an actual development experience with the brilliant ProcessWire CMS.

The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, or AMP for short, is considered to be Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Article format. Free and open-source, this framework seeks to enable faster-loading pages for mobile devices. The incentive for…

Just a few years ago, most Web site layouts were based on tables (). This method had several disadvantages:

The Latest TrendA full-width site with a large photo in the background and a title in the centre, a logo on the left and a “hamburger menu” on the right. Sound familiar? Whether it be for a company, a product or a blog, many sites adopt this layout…

Frederic Filloux, co-editor of the Monday Note, along with Jean-Louis Gassée, dedicated last Monday’s note to the increasing bulk of Web page code, lamenting the fact that a single page of text requires between 6 and 55 pages of code. As an…

Drupal’s Context module allows you to manage conditions and contextual reactions in the various parts of your site. This means that you can assign a different context for each “section” of your site and control the conditions that trigger each…

The question “What is the best car?” is naive. There is no best car. Some cars are better than others, but the question should be “What is the best car for my needs?” If you live in the Canadian boreal forest, a Lamborghini would not be appropriate…

Joomla is a PHP-based CMS that still enjoys widespread use despite its advancing age. In fact, Joomla is popular world-wide, except, oddly, in North America. Joomla, the second-most used CMS, is losing ground to front-runner WordPress, not due to…

Typo3 is said, perhaps rightly, to be a heavy-duty engine developed for the programming pleasure of Bavarian engineers: it is a labour-intensive, complex platform, rather popular in Europe, especially in Germanic countries. The field in which this…

Last December, after Flash Professional CC was retired in favour of Animate CC, some tech publications proclaimed “Flash Is Dead, Long Live Adobe”, or “The Final Nail in the Flash Coffin”. The truth is more complex and nuanced. In fact, Animate CC…

One of the challenges that integrators must take into account when preparing a Web site is choosing the right Content Management System (CMS) for the client. The right CMS is the one that takes into account the knowledge level of the people who have…

A High-Level CMS/CMF

When I was told that my next project would involve WebGL, I did some research. I discovered that all I needed to do was add an HTML canvas to our Web page and delegate the rendering to OpenGL to take advantage of any available hardware acceleration.

Matt Mullenweg, the head of Automattic, the company behind the WordPress content management system (CMS), announced last November that WordPress had garnered 25% of the market. Today, one out of every four Web sites runs on WordPress, far more than…

Voir la carte WCAG 2.0 … « Web accessibility means making the Web accessible to people with disabilities. More specifically, it means that the disabled can perceive, understand, navigate and interact with the Web, and contribute to it. Web…

When you think of Content Management Systems (CMS), Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla immediately spring to mind; but in the PHP world, there are so many other options! A quick glance at CMS Critic is all it takes to see that the domination of a few big…

Barely twenty years ago, business cards were still the mainstay of business. Not anymore: in today’s business environment you have to have a Web presence. An on-line storefront is no longer optional. It is the latest and best business card, the…