Another QCon event, the first back in New York since 2019, and my first time as a conference Co-Chair…
As a dynamic programming language with a preference for coercion, JavaScript has a reputation for allowing us to do some odd things with unintended consequences. Some people introduce static types to help combat some of these issues but there's also another way.…
Social Media has proven its longevity and now is starting to demonstrate its ability to change the way we live and work. I look at how it may affect tech businesses in the future.…
At Ticket Arena I have been helping to create a unified UI Library using React and while the component based approach is brilliant for building websites, it sometimes raises difficult questions about how best to customise a component for a specific usage. These questions also frequently include understanding how to…
React offers many features to assist developers, including a great suite of validators for checking the props set for a component are as expected. The full details are available in the React Documentation [https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/reusable-components.html] but the core library covers most bases. You can…
Moving from React 0.12 to 0.13 has seen us at Ticket Arena [http://www.ticketarena.co.uk] embrace many of the new features ES6 brings to JavaScript. We've been using Babel [https://babeljs.io/] and Webpack [http://webpack.github.io] to ensure we maintain browser compatibility…
I recently began looking into using React Router [http://www.github.com/rackt/react-router] with Yahoo's excellent Fluxible App [http://fluxible.io] framework and had a few issues with context so I thought I'd post what I found here to help anyone else that might be…
Perhaps “New Adventures” is the wrong phrase as I’m now well into my third month of this particular endeavour, but sticking with the theme I’m pleased to announce that I am now Head of Digital for Finn [http://www.finncomms.com]! It’s a bit of a departure…