- Jira, stakeholders and release notes Jira influence over Agile project management tools is undeniable. It’s old, big, has lots of add-ons and a mountain of configurations that your big tech department management will love. However one thing Jira never seems to get it right is the UI. The web interface tends to be slow and convoluted, it’s not great either […]
- 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 […]
- Launching a new product, Genius Bargain, helping you shopping online The chrome web store is a really a weird place, it’s a bunch of bundled html5 apps, homepage buttosn that goes to some website & chrome extensions that puts buttons in your toolbar. The first time I had a look at that store I was surprised to see that some apps had actually millions of […]
- iPresent, mobile mockups presenter At CakeMail we are ramping up our mobile effort with a new mobile web app, recently we hit a milestone & completed most of the interface design. It got me wondering what could be the best way to get my coworkers to experience on their phone what this was going to be all about. Turns […]
- Data mining user behaviors in web apps tl;dr I got a jquery plugin that track agitated user behaviors. Do you currently track user behaviours? Most people would say yes, if you have google analytics installed you do track behaviors, at least a form of it. But do you do the extra mile to understand your users? That’s a question that could be […]
- SAQ.com UX overview, why and how to fix it 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 can guess, since they are the only one selling imported wines and hard liquors, they […]
- Creating a CSS3D hovering state with fallback for older browsers HTML5 & CSS3 are a big sugar rush in the front-end community currently, you can see those nice CSS3 buttons popping everywhere around the web. For one project I am working on I wanted to use a nice 3d flip effect like this one. Unfortunately that kind of effect is currently only achievable with Safari […]
- Handling javascript errors on production websites Handling javascript errors as always been sort of a problem for me. Testing every combination possible in a big application is hard, and there is always a chance you will miss something. Of course, we should always strive to make an application as bug free as possible, but users seems to always find a way […]
- Form validation engine 2.0 is live As said previously a rewrite of the validation engine has been in the work for sometimes and today it is finally live, the API changed a lot, might be a good idea to have a look at the new documentation if you are upgrading. I will be updating the documentation today, but the most up […]
- stackJS, a javascript module loader and dependencies handler Writing good and maintainable javascript is hard, especially when your first javascript framework was jQuery. Couples of years ago, you could be ok using document.ready for implementing your minimal features. Now not so much, web application use more and more javascript, and there comes a time where using anonymous functions with a ton of events […]