Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Why use Twitter Bootstrap

Use Tools

  1. Use Chrome's User-Agent Switcher to spoof your user agent
    • Make the spoof permanent
  2. Use Chrome's Resolution Test to quickly switch resolution of browser
    • Add iPhone resolutions using options
  3.  Use Twitter Bootstrap and CSS to quickly style a website to look good on mobile
    1. See documentation on examples and components

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

On Systematic Program Design


Key lessons from this course include:
  1. Recipes are extremely useful
  2. Templates are extremely useful
  3. Knowing what needs to be done NOW is extremely valuable
    • It increases productivity tremendously
    • Recipes and templates are what makes this possible 
  4. Data design drives function design drives implementation
  5. Being systematic comes from using good recipes and templates
Key programming practices:
  1. Understand the information domain clearly
    1. Draw diagrams
    2. Write out examples
  2. Map the information domain to data domain
  3. Use check-expects / unit tests
  4. Use wishes to track work outstanding
Key tools:
  1. Recipes
  2. Templates