Why we moved to GitHub
We’ve moved over to GitHub in 2015 for many reasons, here our developer Aydin shares a few reasons why.
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We’ve moved over to GitHub in 2015 for many reasons, here our developer Aydin shares a few reasons why.
The development team share their personal highlights from 2015, including their important lessons, top reads, and favourite open source projects.
We’re enthusiastic for web education, hosting lectures and workshops for local students. Now we’re getting involved with web courses. Shane, our front-end developer, is providing bite-sized lessons at egghead.io that’ll level up your programming skills.
Part of our job here at JH is making sure we’re doing the best for our clients from a technical and development perspective. Security is always first and foremost at the top of our list followed by the 1,000,001 other things we like to keep on our plates.
Recently we made a big push on testing looking to improve our code quality and robustness. Previous attempts at this have been difficult due to Magento and it’s architecture. Luckily we stumbled upon Aspect Mock which solved all of our problems with Magento allowing us to remove restrictions and integrate tests into our modules.
Things have not slowed since our recent 2.0 release – along with keeping on top of small bug fixes and refining the codebase, we have also managed to implement a much-requested feature: HTTPS proxying.
What started as a simple Grunt task capable of auto-reloading browsers and injecting CSS, has now evolved into a indispensable tool used by Designers and Developers all over the world in their quest to offer device-agnostic experiences when building for the Web.
As BrowserSync continues to grow in popularity (nearly 18,000 downloads in the last 30 days!) we are also seeing a rise in the number of other projects that are using it – the most recent one being the Web Starter Kit.
We’ve written recently about Implementing scalable graphics in your web projects – now we’re moving onto how to handle multiple vector graphics and optimising your workflow.
The front-end team at JH are always looking at ways to improve development workflow. We love checking out new tools and techniques and will often integrate the most useful ones into our stack.
Jamie Huskisson — Head of Client Services
