The true measure of a new best practice is how painful it is to return to projects that don’t use it.
The true measure of a new best practice is how painful it is to return to projects that don’t use it.
The further you are from a problem, the easier the solution appears.
The trickiest part of being a developer is getting the client to describe their problem instead of their perceived solution.
I can’t state this enough: Developers don’t burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ‘shipping’.
The new St. Lucy’s website was an exercise in content more than programming. We were given an unorganized 10GB collection of photos, a large student handbook, several publications, Word documents, and snippets of text. All of this was distilled into 93 pages of content, each with appropriate images and layout, and organized into a sensible structure that’s easy to navigate.