Daehli Nadeau Otis daehli

Pagination Best Practices

Article by Faruk Ateş

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the obvious example, but it's good to realize that paginat

Documentation-Driven Development

The philosophy behind Documentation-Driven Development is a simple: from the perspective of a user, if a feature is not documented, then it doesn't exist, and if a feature is documented incorrectly, then it's broken.

Document the feature first. Figure out how you're going to describe the feature to users; if it's not documented, it doesn't exist. Documentation is the best way to define a feature in a user's eyes.
Whenever possible, documentation should be reviewed by users (community or Spark Elite) before any development begins.
Once documentation has been written, development should commence, and test-driven development is preferred.
Unit tests should be written that test the features as described by the documentation. If the functionality ever comes out of alignment with the documentation, tests should fail.
When a feature is being modified, it should be modified documentation-first.
When documentation is modified, so should be the tests.

Toggle MacOS X Notification Center on or off

This gist is to remind me (and anyone else who it helps) how to quickly disable and re-enable Notification Center.

Set Up Bash Aliases

Installation

Open your terminal (<⌘ + ␣ (spacebar)>, then type "terminal", then press <↩ (enter)>).

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

Single file

Source

cat /foo/bar/file.txt | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -base64 | nc termbin.com 9999
Enter password twice (quickly), note termbin.com URL

Destination

curl -s http://termbin.com/{id} | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -base64 -d > file.txt

	/**
	* Convert From/To Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal in JavaScript
	* https://gist.github.com/faisalman
	*
	* Copyright 2012-2015, Faisalman <[email protected]>
	* Licensed under The MIT License
	* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license
	*/

	(function(){

	# A simple Makefile alternative to using Grunt for your static asset compilation
	#
	## Usage
	#
	# $ npm install
	#
	# And then you can run various commands:
	#
	# $ make # compile files that need compiling
	# $ make clean all # remove target files and recompile from scratch

	[alias]

	##
	# One letter alias for our most frequent commands.
	#
	# Guidelines: these aliases do not use options, because we want
	# these aliases to be easy to compose and use in many ways.
	##

	a = add