Hugo Archetypes to the Rescue!
Using our Hugo-based documentation site, we typically publish release notes once per week. My usual process includes the following: M...
Documentation Hugo ArchetypesUsing our Hugo-based documentation site, we typically publish release notes once per week. My usual process includes the following: M...
Documentation Hugo ArchetypesAs someone who basically gets by when it comes to writing Javascript, I tend to look at things from a “I bet I could do this with CSS” st...
CSS SCSS Mobile UX UI/UX frontendThis is an updated post of the original here. Whether you’re new to the frontend at RIMdev or looking for more about our Frontend team...
Team RIMdev FrontendIf you’ve ever worked in Azure Data Studio, you may find tab colors very useful. They allow you to visually separate different connectio...
Documentation Azure Data StudioIf you’re not familiar with Platform UI, it’s a utility rich CSS framework we created. As we look to migrate all of our apps and static ...
UI UX CSS SassGet ready to celebrate because, as of Friday, September 18, 2020, Evan You, creator of Vue.js, announced Vue 3 is officially released. He...
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asp.net coreIf you have used slots in Vue, you know that it provides a clean way to vary content that is displayed in child components. For example, ...
VueJS Slots Scoped Slots JavaScriptWe’ve been using Swagger via Swashbuckle for some time with our ASP.NET Full Framework applications. As we’re moving toward ASP.NET Core ...
asp.net coreWe’ve spotted some strange behavior before with ASP.NET Core and JSON serialization/deserialization, and I eventually made it back to try...
asp.net coreWe’ve spotted some strange behavior before with ASP.NET Core and JSON serialization/deserialization, and I eventually made it back to try...
asp.net coreAs we create CSS components in our internal framework, we typically try to use little if no JS. Our tooltips should be no different. We...
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Vue.js Jest TestingLast week I attended the annual user experience conference Convey UX in Seattle, where 50 UX leaders from all over the world shared their...
UI/UX frontend conference conveyux2020 conveyuxWe run a number of web applications at Ritter Insurance Marketing. Our primary datastore for these applications is MSSQL / SQL Azure. Our...
SQLWe’ve been working through upgrading our core applications from ASP.NET full framework to ASP.NET Core. Over the years we’ve assembled an...
.NETConfigurationManager has long been used by .NET Framework developers prior to .NET Core to access things like app settings and connection...
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.NETTesting is an important step we can take as developers to reduce bugs in our code, but testing seems to be one of the best practices that is skipped the most. When it comes to development I have no...
Vue.js Jest TestingSupporting IE comes with challenges if you are using es6, and while babel helps greatly there is a few gotcheas. One of the main one is using forEach on DOM elements. In modern browsers it’s pretty...
JavaScript IE 11Standard Polyfills for Front End Getting your JavaScript applications working across all browsers is challenging. If you are writing your JavaScript using ES6 or ES5, then you are probably using s...
JavaScript Webpack PolyfillsSimple transitions Vue.js has an extremely helpful was to handle animations in web apps. In a simple example if we want to display something in a fade animation all we would need to do is wrap tha...
Vue.js JavaScript AnimationsIn development it is common to not want to share everything in our code. Things like usernames, password, links to an api, and more should not be stored directly. Storing them in environment variab...
Vue.js JavaScript WebpackIn Vue computed properties are a life saver when it comes to being able to add logic to data that we need to use in the UI. We want to keep the logic in the template to a minimal if possible and we...
Vue.js JavaScriptIn JavaScript, we are always working with different data types to send to the API or display on the UI. Cloning and altering that clone is a very common thing we do every day. Sometimes we only wan...
JavaScriptIn today’s front-end ecosystem we are breaking down code into separate files and importing them. This helps us separate out code and reuse it more effectively. Vue does this in components similar t...
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