Technical Blog

Media Queries: Things I Wish I’d Known

Posted on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 by

One of my recent projects, which involved consideration for mobile devices, needed a decent amount of exploration around CSS media queries. After a little bit of Google searching, I expected to easily utilize media queries to solve all my responsive and mobile design woes. However, the actual experience was far less pleasant than I had hoped. I’d like to help other engineers find the right solution faster, so I’ve put all my findings in this post. May my media query woes be your media query treasure.

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Tags: CSS mobile


Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Posted on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 by

Today, Box is joining with many other companies around the world to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). We’ll be giving a couple of accessibility-focused talks to the company during lunch, as well as setting up computers that simulate different user experiences. Raising awareness about accessibility is important for anyone working with technology, as technology brings the entire world closer to us.

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Tech Talk: The Coming of the Modern Enterprise IT Platform by Derek Collison (May 22 @ 6pm)

Posted on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 by

In this talk, Derek will share his thoughts on what technologies a modern Enterprise IT platform encompasses and how Apcera is approaching the problem. Derek has been working on scalable, distributed systems for many years, both at traditional enterprises and at Google – come see why we have to think differently in order to solve this problem.

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Effective learning through code workshops

Posted on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 by

At Box, we’re very interested in the quality of our code, which is why we’re constantly evaluating our processes to figure out how we can do better. We even have a team of Code Reliability Engineers (CREs) that help others write better code and provide training both internally and externally. Recently, we’ve turned a critical eye towards code reviews and have been implementing a new process called code workshops.

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Tags: Code reviews CRE-U


Video: “Dive Into Mobile Performance” by Steve Souders

Posted on Saturday, April 27th, 2013 by

Recording of Steve Souders’s (Head Performance Engineer, Google) talk titled “Dive Into Mobile Performance” on Wednesday, April 24th 2013.

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