Monthly Archives: March 2015

The Best CSS Preprocessors

- Fire development

Less and Sass

Unfortunately, CSS has a number of limitations. It can easily become a mess of overrides and repetitions. At the same time, the simplicity of CSS often hinders the development process. The solution of this problem comes from CSS preprocessors. They add many useful features that are unavailable in CSS from the beginning. The most popular solutions are SASS and LESS. There are a lot of significant differences between them, but first of all we’re going to look how CSS preprocessors work in general. Continue Reading

The Best CSS Frameworks And Grid Systems

- Fire development

CSS3CSS frameworks are used for easier and more standards-compliant web design. Most of them contain at least a grid, but there also more functional frameworks with a lot of additional features and functions. Some notable examples are Foundation and Bootstrap. In this post, you will find information about advantages and disadvantages of CSS frameworks, and the most popular solutions and tools.

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MOA – Magento on Angular

- E-Commerce, Fire development, Magento tips & tricks

MOA

In this post, we’ve gathered all necessary information about MOA – Magento on Angular. Standard Magento can disappoint you because of its crufty Javascript, tangled interface, and heavy SOAP APIs. Magento on Angular or MOA tries to solve these problems. AngularJS, Angular in short, is an open-source web app framework. It is maintained by Google and a wide community. MOA was designed to simplify development and testing by providing a framework for client-side MVC (model–view–controller) architecture along with other components.

Magento API Wrappers

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How To Become A JavaScript Developer

- Fire development

JS

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting programming language with dynamic typing and first-class functions used as a part of web browsers with the support of client-side scripts. It supports imperative, object-oriented, and functional programming styles. Other fields of use are server-side network programming, game development, and creation of applications. Web-based environments, which relies on JavaScript are PDF documents, desktop widgets, and site-specific browsers. Continue Reading