6 books every beginner developer needs to read

When you're a newbie in the complex code world and crave for knowledge, good resources are key to success. Blogs, forums, dev meetings - where to start? All of these options are worth trying but there are also those old-fashioned artefacts called books which could be very helpful. Here is a special list created by our team members. Check out what to read at the beginning of your coding journey...

Maciej Kucharski Jan 28, 2014

Frontend development

A definitive guide to responsive text

When thinking RWD most of you picture fluid grids and responsive images, forgetting a quite important piece of the puzzle - the content. *Since content is king* and most probably your content is mostly text, the text is king. Let’s see what we can do to display text properly on vast range of devices.

Maciej Kucharski Sep 4, 2013

Frontend development Sass

Generate icon classes from sprite using SASS

While we mostly use sass for it's variables, nesting and mixins, the language itself is way more powerful. A lot of features may not be used on your everyday site, but there are times when they come in handy. Let's take a look on how one would approach automatic class generation for any grid based sprites and how this could vastly shorten your code.

Maciej Kucharski Aug 27, 2013

Frontend development

Why we used Foundation Framework on naturaily.com

Gentle normalize.css ----------------------- Your usual reset.css leaves you with absolutely nothing - each and every style has to be written by yourself, from scratch. We were looking for a set of rules that would remove browser inconsistencies while preserving some default and desirable styling. Foundation's normalize.css gives you just that.