Alice Boxhall: “Debugging Accessibility” at Fronteers Conference 2017

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Umar Hansa: “A Modern Front-end Workflow” at Fronteers Conference 2017

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Work Culture and Enabling Software Developers to Contribute

This article by Marcus Blankenship tries to answer the question why programmers become disaffected with a company and its goals and ultimately turn to just wanting to code. As I wrote in an earlier article about paying for developer tools with developers, particularly in larger organisations, I frequently encounter a feeling of powerlessness and not having significant say in that organisation’s direction. Marcus is spot on in that he attributes this far too common attitude to an often dysfunctional work culture that doesn't ... Read more

One Cannot Not Design

One cannot not communicate. - Paul Watzlawick Philosopher and communication theorist Paul Watzlawick famously stated as one of his five axioms of group homoeostasis (the ability of a system to maintain its current state or equilibrium) that "one cannot not communicate", meaning that it's impossible to completely avoid communication. Even the act of intentionally not communicating - by staying silent for example - is an act of communication. In the case of silence depending on the communication situation this could be interpreted is ... Read more