Last June 11th, I had the opportunity to participate as a speaker in the Vue.js Global Summit by Gleekle to talk about one of my favorite topics, Pair Programming. My intention with this talk was to motivate teams to adopt this wonderful technique to improve their productivity. Here I bring you a summary, we will be covering: What is Pair Programming? Benefits of Pair Programming Pair Programming styles Implementing Pair Programming (tips and tricks) Common Pushbacks Takeaways Before start talking about Pair Programming, it’s important to mention some of the most common problems inside a development team: First, Lack of communication between team members - This could be partialized or generalized problem depending on the company Another one is Centralized knowledge - This happens when one team member is the to-go person for any particular technology, codebase familiarity, or domain knowledge. And yeah somebody is coming to your mind right now Never-ending code reviews - A sing

Most web applications are developed for users with no disabilities, under the assumption that all users have the same  physical abilities and resources , when in fact it's the opposite. The circumstances of our users will vary from having internet issues to being physically disabled, and here is when Web Accessibility comes into play,  so you can optimize your web app and adapt it to all audiences. Web Accessibility  (a11y for short)   refers to designing/developing web apps so people with some kind of physical disability, situational disability, and socio-economic restriction (like low internet speed) can use them. Web Accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect web navigation, including: 👁 visual 🧠 neurological 👂🏽 auditory 🖐🏽 physical  🗣 speech The first time I heard about this concept, I was surprised by the number of people who are restricted to fully use web applications. My first guess was that around 1% to 5% percent of the population has a disability, but

I can't stress enough how happy I am after start using Tailwind CSS in my Vue projects. Now, I don't have to deal directly with CSS; Tailwind will handle that for me 😉. This is a short tutorial on how to add Tailwind CSS to your Vue app created with the Vue CLI. Let's start: 1) Open your project and install Tailwind . npm   i  -- save - dev   tailwindcss 2) Create a CSS file called tailwind.css in the following path src/assets/css/ and add the content below: @tailwind   base; @tailwind   components; @tailwind   utilities; 3) Now import the tailwind.css in main.js import   './assets/css/tailwind.css' 4)  Create your Tailwind config file by running npx   tailwindcss   init This will create a minimal tailwind.config.js file at the root of your project. 5) Create a postcss.config.js file at the root of your app and add this: const   autoprefixer  =  require ( 'autoprefixer' ) const   tailwindcss  =  require ( 'tai

For me, one of the small hacks to keep me posted with the tech/tools that I love is to follow the contributors or creators on Twitter. I like to read about what they're thinking, what they're working on and what are the next improvements for the tools. I even like to see their favorite memes 😆. So I encourage you to start this 2020 with the right foot following some brilliant people that are contributing to the Vue.js ecosystem in different ways: Evan You twitter:  @youyuxi Yeah, let's start with the creator. Evan has been working with Vue.js since 2014, and right now he's the biggest contributor, dedicating all of his time to the framework. On his Twitter account, you can find thoughts about the next steps of Vue.js and sometimes you can find tweets about UFC 🥊. Eduardo San Martin Morote twitter:  @posva Eduardo is part of the Vue Core Team, he's focused on the vue-router . Also, Eduardo is the creator of vuefire , a solution to create real-time b

I moved to Toronto this year, and I had the amazing opportunity to attend to one of the biggest Vue Conference, the VueConfTO 2019 . It was a wonderful experience, I meet in person some of the greatest contributors to the vue ecosystem and learned a lot from their presentations. This was a very multicultural event, there were participants that came from all around the world, E.g.: China, India, UK, Turkey, Sweden, Mexico, Spain, USA and many more. The conference venue was in an extraordinarily convenient place, in downtown Toronto at the Marriott Downtown, in case any participant would want to explore a little bit more of Toronto, the main attractions/places were nearby. The conference lasts 3 days, it included workshops, presentations, contests/quizzes, meals, after party, and a Q&A session with the core team. The MC of the event was Phil Hawksworth who entertain us during the whole presentations with some really funny jokes interacting with the crowd and the s

In this post, I will show you how to run your Vue CLI 3 project on GitHub Pages in a few simple steps. GitHub Pages is ideally for your personal website, documentation, demos, or your wife's website  😊 ... basically, any static project that you want to display to the world quickly. For the purpose of this tutorial, I will be using  mejiamanuel5 / gh-pages-vue-cli-3    a project that I created for a better demonstration. You can clone my repo, use your existing Vue CLI 3 project or create a new one. If you don't know how to create one, this guide can help you. Ready? let's start: 1) At the root of your project create a file called  deploy.sh  and add this script: # abort on errors set -e # build echo Linting.. npm run lint echo Building. this may take a minute... npm run build # if you are deploying to a custom domain add a CNAME (uncomment the next 3 lines) #cd docs #echo 'yourcustomdomain.com' > CNAME #cd - # deploy echo Deploying..