One Hell of a Week

Posted in capacity as Module Leader Group Software Development, Department of Computing Sheffield Hallam University A Morgue One hundred students, 10 clients, 5 labs of University PCs, overzealous Facilities department and the Sheffield weather. What could possibly go wrong? Last week was ‘Scrum Week’. Nineteen groups of students working flat out 9-5, Monday to Friday…

Read More

Flexbox Technicals – Part Two

Before reading the following ensure you are happy with the flexbox concepts of main axis and cross axis discussed in my previous post. Justification on the main axis The CSS property justify-content is used to control spacing between and around items along the main axis (assuming extra space is available). It is applied to the…

Read More

Flexbox Technicals – Part One

The concept of ‘flexible box’ or flexbox is name of the CSS3 flex layout model. Flexbox is based around flex containers and flex items. A flex container is a parent element to flex items.  Flex items are the immediate children of the flex container and can be laid out in any direction. Take the following simple…

Read More

Strictly Javascript

There comes a time with a large Javascript project where having the code behave more like a ‘usual’ programming language becomes useful.  This is where ‘strict mode’ comes in. Javascript is very forgiving.  Take the following: No problem.  Yet programming from other languages will throw their arms in horror – The Variable has not been…

Read More