1. Brief History of CSS CSS is a programming language invented in 1994 and adopted as a web standard in 96. Yes, I know that a lot of people don’t consider and laugh at me when I say CSS is a…
16 Tips to Improve your OutSystems Front-end
After 17 years of web development experience, the last 8 of those years were dedicated to reducing the gap between designers and OutSystems Developers, I will share some of the best tips for improving OutSystems front-end development. You can see all…
How to Create an Icon Library Component
There is a saying on the internet that one day, after finding a floppy disk, a child said to his father “oh, why did you 3D print the save icon?”. As from my side, I also have the save icon in…
Google Developer Tools para Iniciantes
Considerações iniciais Por diversas vezes eu estive em projetos onde desenvolvedores mais juniores conheciam pouco ou nada sobre como usar o Google Developer Tools, uma ferramenta importante em que todo dev precisa saber pelo menos o básico.Neste artigo, eu tento ensinar…
Avoid Reflow & Repaint
…we’re probably doing some really stupid things in CSS we don’t know about… This is a sentence from around 2009 said by Douglas Crockford and, despite the context where it was said, I would like to use it as a starting…
Accessibility and Colour
These are some of the questions I had at the beginning, looked very hard for an answer on Wikipedia, and bring now the results back to you. Mostly, because I found the information was too spread or behind a wall of…
Let’s Keep IT Up: Organising a Hackathon to Change Lives
Imagine you had 24 hours to develop an application that would impact the lives of those in need. Would you do it? That was the challenge IT Up launched a few weeks ago to anyone that, in this holiday season, wanted…
UX and Enterprise Apps: Two Sides of the Same Coin
How long has it been since you last used a web or a mobile application? Probably a few hours, if not a few minutes, or seconds ago. You might even be using one right now as you read this article. The…
How BPI is Facing Digital Transformation with Front-End OutSystems
Digital transformation in the banking industry Digital transformation is here to stay. Maybe a few years ago this would be a revolutionary, controversial, mind-blowing statement. Nowadays, it’s just a fact. We’re in a state where every company, no matter the industry,…
Speed up Your OutSystems Front-End Development with Live Style Guides
A couple of days ago, I was cleaning some old boxes and found a Kodak camera roll probably from some old camera that I don’t even remember I had. A nostalgic feeling immediately hit me. Who would have thought that a…