Working in a global retail environment poses some interesting availability challenges when you have physical Bricks and Mortar stores.
Do You Know the Biggest Reason for Why Enterprise Software Sucks?We all know the story. Your company was going to get this big new shiny ERP software. It was going to replace a third of the workforce in the company, cut the costs in half and make everyone happy.
Create your own browser extensions, Part 1: Extend your reach into ChromeFor this article you need to download and install Google Chrome version 19 or higher (the examples shown here are based on version 19). You'll also want something you can use to edit HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It will help if you have some experience using Chrome and some Chrome extensions first.
It Takes Time@rands wrote an enlightening article on what makes creators tick. Builders and creators aim to take the abstract to the concrete. Through the creative process, we build relentlessly throughout our lives — we’re constantly honing and perfecting our craft. The high is at the end of the story.
The Secret DevelopersThe Secret Developers is Digital Foundry's occasional series where game-makers come forward to talk with us - and you - about topics they are passionate about, or in the case of this article, to give you the inside story behind a particular hot topic.
Bulletproof Accessible Icon FontsCare must be taken when implementing icon fonts to ensure a great experience for all users. What happens when your font doesn’t load? What happens when @font-face isn’t supported in the browser? We’ll show you how to implement bulletproof font icons.
Software Development Fundamentals25 minutes, 34 seconds
CrowdspellCrowdspell is a free and small script that allows the reader of an article to correct a typo very easily and fast. Do you like it? Well here's the two lines of code you want to add to your site:
A coder's thoughts — Using Lua within .NET programsLua is a small language know for its flexibility and use in the video games industry. It is implemented in fast, small C code which makes it a piece of cake to embed in host programs. Not to mention it is largely portable. Of course, us programmers like the comfortable .
Ten reasons we switched from an icon font to SVGWe use a lot of icons on lonelyplanet.com and recently went through the task of transferring them from an icon font to SVG files. I wanted to share why we did this along with some of the drawbacks to SVG and how we got around them. We use a custom font on lonelyplanet.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.