Back to News Here are a few of the things our team found useful or interesting this past week.
Design
Prototyping tools in 2021
uxplanet.org
Covers a good list of UI and design prototyping tools we also use or have used in the past. Interesting to see Webflow mentioned as a prototyping tool and certainly makes sense to be used as a testing platform!
— Adam P
Rails design patterns
longliveruby.com
As the article states, this is “a high-level overview of design patterns that are commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications.” So in other words, these aren’t Rails or Ruby-only design patterns, but rather design patterns that commonly show up in Rails apps. This could be a good refresher if you’re coming back to Rails after a hiatus, or as a learning tool to up your mad skillz.
— Ian
10 easy tricks to improve your website design
10 easy tricks to improve your website design
Although these tricks aren’t failproof, they serve as a great starting point if you’re not sure where to begin designing a site.
— Anne
Tech
Internationalization in WordPress 5.0
pascalbirchler.com
A little bit of old news but Javascript integration (i.e. using JSON locale files instead of PO and MO files) with WordPress’s PHP based localization is possible with Gutenberg. A good tutorial to go through in making this conversion.
— Adam P
Ruby has hidden a little easter egg
reddit.com
Open up IRB and type the following `IRB.send :easter_egg` to see what it is. Found via the ruby community on Reddit.
— Adam A