Web Development

Getting serious with versioned APIs in Scala

February 10, 2014 Brian Pugh 0 Comments

Abstract Lucidchart is a collaborative diagramming SaaS application. This session’s speakers have been transitioning from a monolithic CakePHP application to a services-oriented RESTful system based solely on Scala. They discuss their decision to ditch PHP and how they ended up with a working set of services. First, they explain their…

Atomic CSS as a tool set

January 31, 2014 Alma Madsen 6 Comments

The growing complexity of websites and web applications has yielded several new approaches to structuring and maintaining style sheets. You may have heard of BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, OrganicCSS, or Atomic CSS. We used the latter, Atomic CSS, to design our new golucid.co website. We’d like to share with you where…

Why bother with a CSS build process?

February 5, 2013 ben 0 Comments

Simple web applications can be built quickly, and the original source code sent to users’ browsers for use. While this allows for rapid prototyping and quick turnaround, it’s not a workable model in the long run for a number of reasons:

IE10: How does it really stack up?

November 14, 2012 ben 0 Comments

At Lucidchart, we really care about making a great application that is easy to use and intuitive for first time users, yet powerful enough for the sophisticated diagrams and mockups that many people need to create. That means that we want Lucidchart to be fast, even when a diagram gets…