Rant time. No-one can deny that web development tooling has improved in leaps and bounds over the last few years. I’ll sound like a moaning old man if I talk about how primitive things were in the old days, so I won’t. But despite this wealth of tools, loads of good quality information online, and…
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Wednesday is Link Day
It’s been a while, so here’s a humongous list of goodies for y’all. Performance Performance Testing Dictionary, a free book (registration required): http://info.soasta.com/PerformanceTestingDictionary.html Yes, a performance budget builder: http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/performance-budget-builder/ Measuring performance (using the navigation timing API): https://davidwalsh.name/measuring-performance Aligning app performance to business success (podcast): http://www.thecloudcast.net/2016/01/the-cloudcast-236-aligning-app.html?m=1 Performance advice from experts: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-performance-advice/ A good case study on performance improving the bottom line: http://www.soasta.com/blog/mobile-web-performance-monitoring-conversion-rate/…
Tuesday is Link Day!
Performance Presentation on “Smaller, faster websites” by Mat Marquis: https://bocoup.com/weblog/smaller-faster-websites The website obesity crisis (presentation): http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm What developers should know about performance: https://medium.com/@christophelimpalair/developers-what-you-should-know-about-web-performance-550cef1040d8 What I’ve learned from monitoring four years of web page bloat: http://www.soasta.com/blog/page-bloat-2015-web-performance-monitoring/ Articles about how web performance affects revenue: https://wpostats.com/tags/revenue/ Avoiding Temptations that Harm Website Performance: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/avoiding-temptations-that-harm-website-performance/ Progressive enhancement Jeremy Keith hits…
Unit testing in WordPress
One of the things I really appreciate about developing in the .Net stack is the fantastic unit test support. Using mocking libraries like moq and leaning on the power of nunit to handle my dependencies means I can write unit tests that truly do test just the unit under test. True unit tests are useful for three…
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Recently Automattic have announced the release of Calypso, a next-generation interface to manage WordPress.com or Jetpack-enabled sites. It’s a very ambitious project, but I believe they have some of the best developers in the world. Plus Andy Peatling, who I’ve had a huge amount of respect for since he initiated the BuddyPress project, ran the…
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