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Web application development: Unlocking the Power of the Web
Application Development is the process of creating software applications to fulfil specific user requirements. It involves researching, designing, implementing, and testing software programs. Unlock the power of web…
Adding cards with the Trello API
In this article, I will discuss the process of adding cards, labels, custom types and lists to Trello using php and the Trello API.
Headless WordPress
The term ‘headless WordPress’ has become a common topic for discussion within the WordPress community. What is it and why does it matter?
Introducing the new design system
The University of St Andrews design system and the accompanying new pattern library, that it supports, aims to build upon the success of the current digital pattern library (DPL).
A look at web components
Although web components have been around for several years in the web development world, it hasn’t been something that I’ve heard mentioned a lot. On the surface, web components look like an easy way to create and…
Website performance and the hidden environmental impact of the internet
It could be easy to assume, given its intangible nature, that the internet’s environmental impact would be trivial. Unfortunately, the ever-growing volumes of traffic and the data centres and servers required to handle…
Why we have code standards and style guides
Code standards and code style guides are like two sides of the same coin. They essentially tell programmers in a team, or across a larger organisation, how to best write their code. Code standards are the rules and…
Unicode is complicated
Why there are four different ways to show the pound sterling symbol in Unicode. With added explosions. Confusion surrounding the pound goes beyond the Scottish independence referendum. This article from Us vs Th3m…
Moving the University website to HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS
When we redesigned the University website in 2008 we adopted the Blueprint CSS framework which greatly cut down our CSS development time. It offered us a solid, cross-browser compatible foundation on which to build our…