Tools, frameworks, and best practices for web professionals
In the summer of 1994, a 26-year-old Danish-Canadian programmer named Rasmus Lerdorf wrote a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries in C to track visits to his…
In 1978, a slim book with a plain white cover appeared on bookstore shelves. Titled The C Programming Language, it was just 228 pages long. Its authors were…
On June 2, 2014, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference opened with a surprise that sent shockwaves through the programming world. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering,…
In February 1970, Niklaus Wirth published the first report on a new programming language called Pascal. Named after the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, the language was designed…
On September 21, 2007, Rob Pike sent an email to Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson with the subject line “a]language.” Attached was a rough sketch of ideas for…
On April 15, 1957, a team at IBM led by John Backus released Fortran I for the IBM 704 computer. The product of nearly three years of intense…
In 2006, a 29-year-old software engineer at Mozilla named Graydon Hoare started a personal side project. Frustrated by a recurring crash in an elevator’s software controller in his…
In the summer of 1956, a small group of researchers gathered at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, for a two-month workshop that would change the trajectory of…
On May 23, 1995, John Gage of Sun Microsystems stood before an audience at the SunWorld conference in San Francisco and made an announcement that would alter the…
Web performance isn’t a feature you add at the end of a project. It’s a fundamental property of your…
The gap between how agencies describe their process on their website and how they actually deliver projects is often…
Small development teams face a unique tooling challenge. Enterprise platforms like Jira, Confluence, and PagerDuty offer powerful capabilities but…
Developer teams have a complicated relationship with project management tools. Most options on the market…
Most portfolio websites fail at the one thing they’re supposed to do: bring in clients. They look beautiful,…
The web design toolkit has evolved dramatically over the past few years. Tools that once dominated the industry have been…
