How to override styled-components styling with external CSS
Styled-components is a wonderful way to style the components in your React project, but using it together with existing CSS can be a bit tricky – especially if you want…
6 Reasons Isomorphic Web Apps is not the Silver Bullet You’re Looking For
During the last two years, I've heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I've done some thinking myself…
Gzipping in Pedestal + Jetty 9.3
There is a sample in the Pedestal repo for how to get responses gzip compressed by using the GzipFilter from Jetty 9.2. This filter has, however, been removed in Jetty…
Testing of hybrid mobile applications
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native…
Looking at UX trends
Now when 2014 is closing we took the time and gather a few Jaywayers to look at UX trends found in ongoing projects. This is our very personal thoughts and…
Web development with Elixir
I created a small hobby project, an online comic book reader, using the fairly new programming language Elixir and a framework called Phoenix which I knew nothing about. These are…
Browser support does not have to be a binary choice
I have more often than not been faced with the following scenario; a client, a colleague or maybe a project manager will ask the old-as-dirt question: “What browsers should be…
Flexbox Centering Cheatsheet
This last year I have had the pleasure of using Flexbox regularly at work. I have had some trouble with memorizing the relationship between flex-direction, align-items and justify-content, specifically in…
Jay Librarian – Jayway’s Book Management System
It all has started as a competence project. At Jayway we have a practice of combining competence development with developing of some useful applications that we would use in our…
Async Servlets
It is now about four and a half years since the Servlet 3.0 specification was released in December 2009, together with Java EE 6. One feature that came in Servlet…
Tunneling to localhost via SSH
Sometimes when working with a new web site I have customers who want to see the site while it is still in development. One way of doing this is to…
Web development environment scripting
Sometimes getting a web project running on your development machine requires a lot more work than simply doing a git clone Inspired by my colleagues Anders Janmyr, who wrote the…
Making SignalR work in IE8 with Chrome Frame
On a recent project we have developed a single page type web application. We chose to power it with knockoutjs and SignalR, which was a great idea except for one small…
Don’t lose focus of your anchors
This really isn't news and this specific issue has been repeated on many accessibility oriented blogs over the years. But since I regularly see this mistake being made over and over again, I think it's time for a revisit. I'm talking about why you shouldn't style away the :focus pseudo-class.
Fonts as scalable vector graphics
How can you deal with one of the bigger problems in client development; the increasing fragmentation that is a result of multiple size, resolution and pixel density in the displays…