Posts tagged "opinions"
“ Make something intended not for your own use, but for use by dummies, and you’ll usually wind up creating something dumb. ”
John Gruber on Chrome OS
jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks
Great article comparing the strengths of jQuery vs. Mootools. I’m with the author: jQuery is a great collection of tools for working with the DOM, but I prefer Mootools’ extensibility and explicit (if more verbose) code.
Skew, the Frontend Engineer's Misery @ Irrational Exuberance
An interesting look at the problems a frontend developer faces. For me, the best part of the article was in the footnotes:
For my purpose there is a distinction between a frontend engineer and a web developer. Within my definition, a web developer is creating an entire product, whereas a front end developer is developing the frontend portion of the product, but other portions are being a developed by other groups. […] While the technical skills are roughly equivalent, the social and political environment are anything but.
