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These days, when we build websites and web applications, if we’re lucky, we don’t have to worry about supporting legacy browsers. But if we do need to support Internet Explorer below version 9, there are JavaScript…

The world is going mobile, and visitors to nonprofit websites are no exception.
For the past 14 years, I’ve worked closely with a wonderful nonprofit named Breastcancer.org. This organization runs the world’s most heavily trafficked breast cancer…

We had another great Ruby refactoring challenge last week at Ruby on Beer. There were at least 7 teams of developers doing their best to improve a chunk of Ruby code. The best part of the…

I’ve been writing CSS for more than 7 years and have traditionally been against using tools that allegedly make composing stylesheets easier, including SASS, until recently. Now, I can’t imagine writing CSS in a longhanded fashion.…

User testing is an essential part of our process at Foraker Labs. Over the years, however, I’ve encountered a lot of confusion about what it actually is.
Folks who work in marketing typically lump user testing…