New Year’s Resolutions for 2017! January 19, 2017 As the new year starts to unfold, it’s time to take a quick look at the things our team at SitePen resolves to do this year.
SitePen Podcast – Season 2 Episode 1 January 18, 2017 It’s a new year and a new season of the SitePen Podcast! In this episode, the gang talks about AWS re:Invent, ReactVR, AFrame 0.4.0, DayDream, a special CES Truthy/Falsey and…
SeleniumConf 2016 Recap December 20, 2016 Selenium is the leading tool for browser and mobile app automation and functional testing. Each year the Selenium community gets together to talk about emerging trends with Selenium and testing best…
Intern Visual Regression Plugin December 15, 2016 Thanks to a generous Mozilla Open Source Support program award, Intern has expanded its testing ecosystem to include new and robust sets of tools. Engineers can now easily write tests…
TypeScript 2.1 Goodness Coming Soon to Dojo 2! December 14, 2016 The TypeScript team has just announced the release of TypeScript 2.1 which contains several long-awaited features (pun intended) for Dojo 2. Rather than repeating the excellent summary from the TypeScript…
HalfStack 2016 Recap December 14, 2016 This was my second year attending Halfstack and creating, as well as compèring (M.C.ed in American English), the JavaScript Pub Quiz. Who can argue with a conference in a pub? The…
Accessibility Testing with Intern December 13, 2016 Intern already has a wide array of capabilities and today we’re pleased to announce one more: accessibility testing. Thanks to a generous award from Mozilla Open Source Support we’ve created…
Intern 3.4 Released December 8, 2016 Today we’re pleased to announce the release of Intern 3.4. This release brings usability enhancements and bugfixes, including a new benchmarking mode! We’ve outlined some of the features below, but…
Web Summit Recap November 16, 2016 Now in its 7th year, Web Summit is the world’s largest web conference, with more than 50,000 people in attendance. The conference possibly draws inspiration from SXSW Interactive, with a…
SitePen Podcast Episode 021 November 8, 2016 Is it a dongle? The Apple event happened and the team shares their thoughts on the future of the Mac. They discuss what they like and don’t like, and what…
Connect.Tech 2016 recap November 1, 2016 I was back in Atlanta a couple weeks ago for Connect.Tech, the largest JavaScript focused conference in the southeast with nearly 1,000 attendees and 11 concurrent sessions. Connect.Tech is a community…
SitePen Podcast Episode 020 October 27, 2016 Torrey is out this week, but we have a very special guest, Dylan Schiemann! We start off by talking about the new features in TypeScript 2.0 and then Neil describes…
Exploring WebVR October 26, 2016 This October, we delivered meetup talks on WebVR in London and Phoenix on the same day to share our early efforts in exploring WebVR with TypeScript, Dojo 2, Intern, and…
Announcing the JS Foundation! October 17, 2016 The official name of the rebranded and relaunched merging of the jQuery Foundation and the Dojo Foundation is the JS Foundation. SitePen is excited to be a member of this new organization!
Running Intern Tests in the Cloud October 11, 2016 With Intern you can easily run tests using your local machine’s web browser or on any other machine running a Selenium server. Sometimes a project will need to be tested…
SafetyNet 2016 recap October 7, 2016 SafetyNet is an annual conference hosted by Pulsiam and is focused on trends in software for the safety industry. Because of our expertise in shaping the modern web and our…
Solving complex dgrid edge cases October 4, 2016 We were recently asked by the team at eQuorum to investigate an issue with dgrid performance when leveraging the dgrid/Tree mixin. The issue was challenging to solve, so we thought…
SitePen Podcast Episode 019 September 30, 2016 The gang invites Sean Larkin, core team member of Angular-CLI and Webpack, to the show. Bryan joins the panel in grilling Sean to determine what exactly Webpack is and where…
Improving TypeScript modules September 29, 2016 One of the main challenges with creating modern JavaScript web applications is the relatively incomplete approach to ES modules. As an interim solution until all necessary use cases are solved,…
Inside Answers: Intern and async functional testing September 20, 2016 SitePen Support is a service used by companies to improve the productivity and efficiency of their enterprise development teams. Our customers often ask questions about best practices when using various…
SitePen Podcast Episode 018 September 15, 2016 This is virtually the best show we have ever done, we talk all about VR! Did you know you can create and view VR content in the browser with WebVR?…
SitePen Unplugged 2016: Less Rugged, More Plugg-ed! September 15, 2016 It had been two years since our last adventure so it was time to round everyone up the last week of July for another exciting experience! Just like last time,…
TypeScript 2.0 Awesomeness September 1, 2016 Over the past few years, TypeScript has iterated and greatly improved developer ergonomics. With our efforts on Dojo 2, we’ve been very excited about many of the features and improvements…
SitePen Podcast Episode 017 – Live from NEJS Conf August 30, 2016 Last week, (most of) the gang took the show on the road to NEJS Conf 2016! In this episode, there’s the usual banter and a game of Truthy/Falsy but the…
The long and winding road to Dojo 2 August 24, 2016 Recently on GitHub, someone accused Dojo 2 of being vapourware. This opinion came from a position of misinformation. I was glad the individual then engaged with the Dojo 2 project…
