Surfing around in the web is a daily routine every developer should have. Learning about new platforms, libraries or techniques is a must, due to the tremendous speed on our business. Stay current, all the time.
I’m a fan of RSS and I’m using Feedly to read my favourite blogs. Unfortunately RSS feeds is not so common anymore, due to Facebook and other social media giants, but I stay informed.
In this series I present some of the absolute pearls I found while reading. Stunning solutions or incredible tools, which I must first and foremost remember for myself, to try them out one day.
Following 19 posts belong to Discoveries ...
Colors and images are the visual meat on the boil of any web solution. If you don’t convince the visitor’s eye, they will quickly leave and if users have to work with a visually poor solution, they will be too dissatisfied, no matter how well the algorithms work.
Below are a few JavaScript libraries that help to create appealing interfaces.
This months Discoveries it’s all about Web UI driven by JavaScript. I have found some really cool components in the net you can use in your project right away to give your users a bit more food for the eye. Congrats to the developers for their amazing work.
In the first discoveries of 2022 I would like to offer you some interesting links to JavaScript articles that have general language features as their topic or extend them in a clever way. The language (respectively the ECMA standard behind it) is growing from year to year and it is exiting to see how it is expanding.
Especially on Github you can find amazing open source solutions for self hosting, that makes it unnecessary to rely on web services from companies you did not know. In this issue of Discoveries I would like to introduce you to a few of them … Happy Holidays
In this month discoveries you will find some posts and pens regarding CSS and its possibilities. It’s always amazing what can be done with it and what cool solutions can be found on the web.
This month, Discoveries is all about JavaScript-driven “components” that you can quickly and easily add to your own website to enhance it. Be it with a simple code viewer or an ingenious print function or simply to display or filter photos. Go on a journey of discovery…
This months discoveries it’s all about CSS tutorials. You will find some of the best articles of profound CSS masters like Ahmad Shadeed or Josh Comeau. All tips are vital to bring your CSS to the next level. Happy learning…
Todays issue of Discoveries is all about images. Show them, manipulate them, get information about them, protect them, use them and create them with JavaScript. Have fun trying out one of these cool solutions.
Todays Discoveries it’s all about my favourite programming language JavaScript. Some tiny tips and tricks alongside with a deep dive into ‘console’ and some helful UI libraries. Have fun…
Todays issue is all about extending your Web Developers toolbox with some useful libraries to provide the best UX to your users or visitors. Tables, Dropdowns, Color Pickers, Footnotes and GDPR dialogs on steroids.
This month my discoveries are all about CSS … at least almost. See the stunning solutions developers around the world have created and take them to improve yours. Have fun exploring.
February and the first sunny days in 2021. What a delight! Have fun, sitting in the sun, discovering my newest finds on the web. This time, all regarding JavaScript…
2020 is over and history. Well, may 2021 be with us. With this post I would like to continue the Discoveries, with new momentum. There was a lot to read over the holidays.
All the finds in this issue have something to do with visual aspects of web design in the broadest sense.
In this episode of the Discoveries (almost) everything is about images and the web. There are so many pitfalls to do it wrong, but many more possibilities to do it right, especially with these resources I found in the last few weeks.
It is so amazing how many cool stuff developers around the world are producing these days. Or they do what they always do, but I have more time to read about their smart ideas and solutions. This month I have 8 pearls for you:
Some articles I stumble upon in my daily routine of reading news and blogs are diving very deep in a certain topic, especially if they are describing the basics of techniques I use every day.
All of the following reading tips are of the type “ahh, that’s why this works like that” or “uuh, I just scatch on the surface on that”. Take your time and read the articles in detail. We all never stop learning and it’s a pleasure to do so…
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New month, new discoveries. We will deal with key bindings, downloads on the fly, a lot of animations and contrasting images. Have fun, trying out these stunning solutions.
Due to my daily routine, I’m reading a lot of articles on the web regarding software development.
The most interesting stuff ends up on my Pocket list, which grows from day to day. Hard to find the pearls, when I need them. This recurring posts will throw a stroke of light on them.
They are maybe not the newest finds, not the fanciest ones, but remarkable for me and maybe for you also.