Our PHP/Laravel developer shares takeaways from Tropical on Rails 2025 and his inspiring experience with the Ruby on Rails community.
From PHP/Laravel to Rails: My First Conference with the Rails Community
30 Apr 2025
Entries tagged: html
The Best Web Development Podcasts of 2019
22 Oct 2019
Need some background noise for your commute? Looking to learn a little more about the web development world through podcasts? Here are some of our favorites.
Lessons from gg, Intern of Internets!
25 Apr 2018
How can you make the most of your front-end development internship? One of our Epicodus interns, Ginger, shares her experience.
Rookie Mistakes (And What I Learned From Them)
24 Apr 2018
Read about the lessons one of our front-end development Epicodus interns learned during her five weeks interning at Planet Argon – and what other aspiring front-end developers can expect in their first hands-on role.
Mobile Site Usage: B2B vs. B2C
21 Dec 2017
Going into the holidays, mobile vs. desktop stats are featured frequently. How do our stats (and our customers' stats) stack up against the national averages?
Our Favorite Programming Books for Rails, CSS, and Beyond
1 Aug 2017
While knowledge realms like StackOverflow are invaluable to solving programming issues, there's something to be said for a good coding book that not only teaches you the how, but the why. Here are some of our team's favorite programming books.
What's so new about Bootstrap 4?
4 Oct 2016
We have been using Bootstrap as our go-to frontend framework for a few years now and it has been working great. The next version of Bootstrap is on the horizon and currently has an alpha release. Let’s take a look at what Bootstrap 4 has in store for us.
Brian gives a thumbs up to Bootstrap
17 Dec 2015
The folks over at PSD to WordPress reached out to ask about thoughts on CSS frameworks. Brian had a few words to share to their roundup.
Upcoming Modern Web Dev Workshop in Seattle!
16 Jul 2013
We’re thrilled to announce the date of our Second Modern Web Development Workshop. This time we are headed for Seattle!
Can I Use the first-child pseudo-element in IE8?
3 Apr 2013
Here is a little knowledge nugget that Jack and I picked up during our time at An Event Apart: Seattle (more on that to come). We learned about this handy little site called caniuse.com that was created by Alexis Deveria. The site lets you look up HTML5, CSS, JS API, SVG, etc. elements to see what their support is across browsers. Then you can assess.. Can I use that?
We are freshly back from the conference and I have already started using and benefiting from it. Give it a look and find out what you can use. (Turns out you can use the first-child pseudo-element in IE8!)