Cedric Dugas

Inker, transactional & marketing email development workflow evolved tl:dr Download | Documentation Any front-end dev will tell you that email template integration is one of the worst part of their job. It is often a task given to interns or to one of those cheap third party companies, & for good reasons. It takes experience/time to build solid email templates, testing in different […] No responses February 10, 2015
6 things an email marketing manager should know It’s sometimes hard for a marketing manager to move into email marketing management, going into it head down can sometimes even cause a melt down on their first campaign. Doing email marketing is special, you have a lot of tools available but at the same time you are dealing with a very outdated technology. Here […] No responses January 27, 2015
Revisiting the design workflow in a scrum team To include design in your sprint or get it done ahead of time? One tough question that product managers seem to be split in half. In web development the design is generally upstream and stakeholders wants their say. Also compared to traditional software you have more breeds of devs, front-end & back-end. You need to […] No responses November 16, 2014
Agile workflow with GitHub issues GitHub is a very interesting always evolving product, it is becoming more & more the go to software to centralize (yeah I know..) your company repositories but also (and more importantly) keep track of the stuff you have to do in your projects with Github issues. Github issues is really a simple product & the […] No responses January 9, 2014
PhoneGap build, 6 frustrating issues explained Phonegap & phonegap Build are amazing technologies, unfortunately the documentation does not always tell you want you want to know. Here a compilation of issues I encountered while using phonegap build for the first time & how I solved them. Black bars only on iPhone 5 (not full size). I had this issue right from […] No responses December 9, 2013
An html5 app turned native in 10 minutes with phonegap build? It’s possible, kind of. By now I’m pretty sure you know of PhoneGap. The framework that enables you to put an html5 app in a web view & push it into the different appstore. But do you know about PhoneGap Build? Intended for the ones that do not want to get their hand directly into the sdk, this new […] No responses December 3, 2013
Tap & click events in mobile web apps, the madness has to stop You should know by now that when you click on a link in the ios mobile browser there is a 300ms delay. Not so many people know where this come from, in fact it comes all the way back from 2007. Engineers at Apple were trying to figuring out how to add a double tap […] No responses December 1, 2013
Selling a side project Today I feel a bit dirty, I just sold WeddingDeck after putting more than 100 hours in it for a couple of hundred dollars. Would I recap WeddingDeck’s life, I think I would describe a lot of side projects out there. A great coding burst getting slower & slower until it gets forgotten & frozen […] 3 responses November 13, 2013
Releasing Backbone.js Mobile Components, beta version Doing mobile web apps can be challenging, not that it’s really harder than doing desktop style app, it’s just different. Working with mobile you need to focus on simplicity & performance. When I started dabbling into doing mobile web apps with Backbone.js I really wanted to abstract from the start the mobile part to focus […] No responses October 20, 2013
Extending Backbone.js constructors, the easy way One thing that really is really annonying with backbone 1.1 is the fact that the options are not passed has this.options anymore in the Backbone.View. Well simply enough we can add this (or anything else) in the view constructor. // Compatibility override - Backbone 1.1 got rid of the 'options' binding // automatically to views […] No responses October 20, 2013