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Simple build script to minify and concatenate files using node.js
When you look to choose for a build system, you are certainly not confronted with a lack of choices. There is a ton of build technics out there and choosing one can easily become a long mission for...
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Tips for getting started with Vagrant, dev environments evolved
I have been using xampp for my local lamp stack for ages. It works well, but that’s definitely nothing like my live production server. Enter Vagrant, “easily” reproducible dev stacks. Wouldn’t it be...
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Html5 drag’n drop file upload, shenanigans used only by developers?
Uploading files has been done since the ice age of web development. In fact uploading a file using Html4 and an iFrame is pretty easy and does not even require a page refresh and about 0 line of code...
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Another year in review
Each year I try to do a small review of what has been going on in my dev life, but first I wanted to get out a couple of articles I written a long time ago that I particularly found interesting or just...
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The jQuery 1.9 & 2.0 upgrade awkwardness
In a recent study it has been said that about 50% of major websites use jQuery. It has become omnipresent and you can actually find job listings that does not list javascript as a skill but list...
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Death to monolithic libraries
If you write code for the web you have dealt with them, gigantic libraries that does everything for you in one nice package. I’m not talking about utilities libs & frameworks like jQuery and...
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Yeoman and friends
Isn’t it every developer dream to have his own command line & scaffolding tool? Do we really save time by creating and using those? I’m not quite sure but I certainly feel fancy when I use them....
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Scaffolding backbone.js generators with grunt.js
Following my encounter with yeoman, I wanted to see if I could easily create my own generators with Grunt. Not because yeoman ones were bads, they are in fact pretty good, but I just do not work...
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Data mining user behaviors in web apps
tl;dr I got a jquery plugin that track agitated user behaviors. Do you currently track user behaviours? Most people would say yes, if you have google analytics installed you do track behaviors, at...
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jQuery Engage, a plugin taking a stab at better engaging blog readers
Optimizing user interactions is a never ending quest in software development. Fortunately in our time and age innovative ideas are rapidly incorporated and improved by other developers. In that mindset...
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iPresent, mobile mockups presenter
At CakeMail we are ramping up our mobile effort with a new mobile web app, recently we hit a milestone & completed most of the interface design. It got me wondering what could be the best way to...
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The weird state of mobile web apps
There are countless of articles debating going native or HTML5 for your next mobile app. But with Linkedin recently deciding to going back to native I am really starting to ask myself if HTML5 is still...
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backbone-generate scaffolding plugin becomes better, evolving into...
3 months ago I open sourced bb_generate, a grunt plugin that scaffold files for backbone.js, the idea was to have an easier solution than yeoman to generate a custom scaffolding solution for specific...
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How to style select, radio & checkbox form elements only with css
Form elements have always been a problem for designers, they are ugly as fuck and never match a website or app style. In an earlier age javascript plugins popped up to solve this problem, at the...
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Gluing together Jasmine, Grunt, Travis CI & Github, testing front-end code...
Battle testing api’s, that’s a pretty common task in the testing world. Now testing the front-end code of an application, or website, that’s a bit newer. Go back 3 years ago and there wasn’t a whole...
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CakeMail is looking for 2 devs + free beers at js-montreal
Yup! CakeMail is hiring, we want to grow our engineering team a bit, and as such we got 2 new positions open. We are looking for 1 front-end dev working with me & 1 back-end dev. In this exciting...
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Launching a new product, Genius Bargain, helping you shopping online
The chrome web store is a really a weird place, it’s a bunch of bundled html5 apps, homepage buttosn that goes to some website & chrome extensions that puts buttons in your toolbar. The first time...
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Releasing Backbone.js Mobile Components, beta version
Doing mobile web apps can be challenging, not that it’s really harder than doing desktop style app, it’s just different. Working with mobile you need to focus on simplicity & performance. When I...
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Selling a side project for almost nothing..
Today I feel a bit dirty, I just sold WeddingDeck after putting more than 100 hours in it for a couple of hundred dollars. Would I recap WeddingDeck’s life, I think I would describe a lot of side...
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Tap & click events in mobile web apps, the madness has to stop
You should know by now that when you click on a link in the ios mobile browser there is a 300ms delay. Not so many people know where this come from, in fact it comes all the way back from 2007....
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