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Posted on Thu, 24 Nov 2016

CSS Architectures for UI developers

Writing good CSS (or whichever sub-flavour) requires a good level of experience. In this moment of time, we are still trying to figure out the best way to scale CSS allowing maintainability and readability without sacrificing performance and ease of use. Some good practices first, then methodologies and systems have been created. Learning, if not mastering them will allow you to approach any CSS framework or library, being it legacy or open source and create new ones with - still relative, ease. …
- Web Design
- CSS
13 minutes read
Posted on Sun, 5 Jun 2016

Making a website shouldn't be that difficult

Or so I thought. What my website plan looked like - © NASA Archives: blueprint for the Personal Life Support System. I’ve just released my new portfolio at https://peach.smartart.it: this redesign started two years ago, with more or less 3 months non-stop of work during any spare time I had. I’ve tried to put into it as many good practices and methodologies I could, only those that were fit for purpose and could help me ship something that would be extensible and as much future-proof as possible. Do you want to build your website too? Read through before you lose your mind. …
9 minutes read
Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2015

Design, develop, repeat

It's been a while since I've started learning and integrating UX and RWD into our products. I come from a graphic background, and my first passion when I stepped into the web development was what was then called web design. From there I’ve also been a lot into engineering and I’m currently employed as a position where front-end development has started to be deeply intertwined with visual design. UX and RWD being one of the most important movements, if you want to call them so, in getting things right. …
- UX
- Web Design
- RWD
- Development
- Project Management
7 minutes read
Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2015

Urban Impressions - a photographic exhibition

Next Friday 26th June 2015 at 6 p.m., my first solo exhibition kicks off here in London with aperitifs and free chicchetti, or bites, Venetian-style. …
- Photography
- Events
1 minute read
Posted on Sat, 14 Jun 2014

Many projects, one dev environment

This article is an excursus on few technologies I've been using in these recent years that had improved the way we develop and ship our code. If you're a solo developer, freelancer or just the I-do-everything wo/man this might be useful to you as well, but you'll notice that a greater benefit will be for a team. …
- Programming
- SysOps
- Development
- Workflow
- DevOps
6 minutes read