Most of the big items are now complete: all new electrical, lights, HVAC, stairs, conference rooms, bathrooms and pantry. We’re just waiting on the new glass entrance door and old maple floors. Target move back date: October 1st.
Continue readingWebPageTest Speed Index
When testing for performance, WebPageTest is an invaluable tool. While the performance audit tab in Chrome’s Dev Tools tests a web page against Google’s performance algorithm and creates a score along with a list of opportunities to improve performance, WebPageTest offers an in-depth look at what exactly is happening when someone requests a web page from our server.
Continue readingOffice Reno Update
We’re mid renovation now. Its hard to believe the GC when he says we will be back in our Chelsea HQ office by September 1st. We’ll see about that soon enough.
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A Stack for The Ages – Part 2
In the first part of this series we introduced the basics of JHipster – we scaffolded a basic monolithic Java/Angular application and used JHipster’s command line options to generate some entities, services, and web modules for creating, retrieving, updating and deleting those entities.
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Agile, Angular.js, App Development, Back-end, CSS, ECMAScript, HTML, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, React.js, RxJS, TypeScript, UI Putting together and bootstrapping a solid application complete with all the building blocks can be quite an undertaking at the best of times, we have to consider so many things-for example:
Continue readingBoyle Construction party – 20 years later
Last week the Boyle Software family got together for a party (as we do). The reasons for gathering were endless – to celebrate the start of a new season, to catch up with coworkers, customers and old friends. But perhaps the biggest reason of all: an empty floor at our 42 W 24th office before construction begins.
Continue readingAlt text in images
The alt attribute is mandatory. It serves several important accessibility purposes. That’s why it is the first guideline of the Web Content Accessibility Guide (WCAG).
We all have seen the most well-known example of the purpose of alternative text: a broken image. In order to make the original intention of the image accessible even if it can’t load the image the browser displays the text as an alternative.
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A web accessibility statement provides your users with information about the accessibility of your content. It shows that you care about accessibility and demonstrates social responsibility.
NYC adding new tech solution to improve MTA buses
Last week I took an MTA bus for the first time in a few years and was reminded how slow it is to get anywhere by bus in nyc. It seemed to take forever to go even a few stops and let’s not mention how late I was to meet my friend for dinner.
Continue readingEdge on Chromium
Microsoft just released its latest version of their Edge web browser. This one is called “Canary” and is based on Google’s Chromium. Hopefully it will be stable and more-robust than previous versions.
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