I've worked with a number of templating engine across different systems which vary quite a lot. A lot of the approach you take to building something will depend on the features the engine has. Rather than give an overview of the language, I thought I...
Read more about working with templatesOne of the things I love most about Newcastle is the great community of meet-ups. As well as frontend NE there is Sunderland Digital, NUX Newcastle, JavaScript NE, Ladies of Code and PHP NE to name but a few. (You can find more at https://www.techdia...
Read more about Building a community of speakersWhen I started talking to Gavin, who ran both DIBI and Industry Conf, he said that “running a conference will be one of the most challenging things you ever do”, he wasn’t wrong. It seemed a natural progression from running a regular meet-up but I ma...
Read more about Reflections on running a first conferenceIf you missed it I did some thoughts from Meetup #1. for this meet-up the focus was navigation. The day was split into two parts — in the morning Craig did a deep dive into the agent service for Bereavement payment service. He talked about how they h...
Read more about Thoughts from DWP Digital design Patterns meet-up 2If you’ve ever worked on an agile team you’ve talked at length about story sizing. If you’ve never been involved it is the process of development teams giving a size to user stories, this can help (or hinder) various other parts of the team. The good...
Read more about Story Sizing — the good the bad and the typesWhen we talk about design systems, a lot of time is spent talking about what a thing is, creating a shared understanding to what things are is just as important as what the names themselves. These things are thought about as getting progressively big...
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