I have been working on a series of blog post about my new development process, which so far has focused exclusively on javascript, including concatenation of javascript files, using Browserify to load jQuery and other javascript library files, and minifying (or uglifying) javascript files. Next it’s time to look at adding stylesheets. Similar to javascript…
Minifying (or uglifying) javascript
Totally in keeping with my New Year’s Resolution, here is a lovely new blog post! And it’s a continuation of my new development process. The last post in the series detailed my switch to using pump instead of pipe in my Gulp task. Today’s post is about minifying javascript, which is sometimes called “uglifying”. The reason being that this…
New Year’s resolution
I don’t usually do New Year’s resolutions, I figure that if you want to achieve something then you should set that goal straight away, rather than arbitrarily doing it once a year. However, it’s been almost 6 months since I put up a new blog post, and that’s just not acceptable! So, my New Year’s…
Taming Outlook meeting requests (part 2)
Yesterday I published a post about Taming Outlook meeting requests, in which I talked through the writing of a script which checked for working hours and calendar availability, before automatically accepting any meeting which met the requirements. And then I left you hanging… Sorry about that! Well here I am to pick up where I left…
Taming Outlook meeting requests (part 1)
If you’re anything like me, and to be honest, for your sake I hope you’re not, then you spend a lot of your time either in meetings, or in Outlook processing meeting requests! Wouldn’t it be nice if I could get Outlook to sort out meeting requests automatically? Oh, but it can, I hear you…
Using pump instead of pipe
One thing that I quickly discovered whilst using Gulp to automate my development process, was the piping the results through from one plugin to another could often go wrong, and it was often hard to trap the reason and get proper error messaging out. Then I discovered some example code which pointed me to pump:…