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The weird state of mobile web apps
by Cedric Dugas on May 12, 2013
There are countless of articles debating going native or HTML5 for your next mobile app. But with Linkedin recently deciding to going back to native I am really starting to ask myself if HTML5 is still part of the equation…
Yeoman and friends
by Cedric Dugas on February 26, 2013
Isn’t it every developer dream to have his own command line & scaffolding tool? Do we really save time by creating and using those? I’m not quite sure but I certainly feel fancy when I use them.
Enter Yeoman, a tool…
Death to monolithic libraries
by Cedric Dugas on February 7, 2013
If you write code for the web you have dealt with them, gigantic libraries that does everything for you in one nice package. I’m not talking about utilities libs & frameworks like jQuery and backbone. I’m talking about Lightboxes, sliders,…
The jQuery 1.9 & 2.0 upgrade awkwardness
by Cedric Dugas on January 23, 2013
In a recent study it has been said that about 50% of major websites use jQuery. It has become omnipresent and you can actually find job listings that does not list javascript as a skill but list jQuery.
You don’t…
Another year in review
by Cedric Dugas on December 17, 2012
Each year I try to do a small review of what has been going on in my dev life, but first I wanted to get out a couple of articles I written a long time ago that I particularly found…
Html5 drag’n drop file upload, shenanigans used only by developers?
by Cedric Dugas on December 17, 2012
Uploading files has been done since the ice age of web development. In fact uploading a file using Html4 and an iFrame is pretty easy and does not even require a page refresh and about 0 line of code on…
Tips for getting started with Vagrant, dev environments evolved
by Cedric Dugas on October 21, 2012
I have been using xampp for my local lamp stack for ages. It works well, but that’s definitely nothing like my live production server. Enter Vagrant, “easily” reproducible dev stacks.
Wouldn’t it be perfect if you could just give a recipe…
The road to mobile web application development
by Cedric Dugas on September 4, 2012
It seems every web company get to that problem one way or the other. Should you leverage your web expertise and try to simply create a mobile web app or go completely native? Since I am currently coding a web…
SAQ.com UX overview, why and how to fix it
by Cedric Dugas on July 11, 2012
There are some things in this world you have no choice to live with, for us Quebec citizens, the SAQ is one of them. You see, in Quebec selling alcohol is illegal, only our government can do that. As you…
Being a short burst coding guy
by Cedric Dugas on June 12, 2012
One thing that is starting to be clear as I evolve into web programming is that I have a lot of problems with personal projects that take more than 3 months from start to “finish”.
My GoDaddy account could tell you…
