When we as developers are scaffolding a website that utilizes a content management system, one of the largest and most complex UX issues that we encounter is the requirement of field inputs. Essentially, to require or not to require; that is the question. We have to account for the possible…
Over the last 6+ months at my new place of employment, I have had the pleasure of being introduced to the Adobe Experience Manager (or AEM) platform. In case you are not familiar with AEM, this JAVA-based content management system is the flagship product from Adobe's Marketing Cloud suite of…
Disclaimer: This assumes that you have a general knowledge of Angular and how to set up a project. One of the most common requests that I get from creatives when we start reviewing a project is that they would like all of the button CTA's to line up horizontally across…
Over the last few months have been working with the NodeJS framework SailsJS. Let me be the first to say that it is extremely light-weight but can be easily scaled very quickly to be able to handle large complex applications. It's feature rich, and much like other NodeJS frameworks, you…
When a requested update or bugfix comes across my desk, there is nothing more daunting when a fresh clone/fork of repository completes and then the installation process ensues. If you are like me, you almost don't even want to look at your screen in fear of that system alert…
Developing enterprise software and websites within a local environment can be somewhat cumbersome at times; especially to test features and style changes within a mobile environment. Just when we think that we have perfected this shinny new addition, quality assurance or the client may shed some light on a bug…
Over the past week I have had a couple conversations with a new co-worker of mine, Kayla, about the implications of code standards, practices, conventions, or choose another complicated noun to insert here. When joining a new team you always want to be respectful to previous habits and conventions when…
Note: This assumes that you know how to use the listed dependencies above and that your application is in a state of completion that is ready to be deployed. If not, please refer to this documentation. Steps to deployment 1. Setup Heroku NOTE: If you have used Heroku before, skip…
