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Marp or Markdown Presentation Ecosystem is a collection of tools that allows the generation of presentations of different formats from a markdown template. The tools are written in JavaScript and have a number of options that allow presentations of different styles and formats.
I was talking with a fellow programmer the other day about a poor test that we were reviewing and we got onto the subject of what makes a poor test. The test in question had a reliance on a previous test being run, and the problem we encountered was that on some systems the dependent test was run after this test, which caused it to fail.
2022 marks 20 years since I started my MSc in computer science degree at the University of Aberystwyth. So, I thought I would take a look back at my thesis for the degree and see how far I have come since then.
Adding a progress bar to the top of the page is a simple way of showing the user how far down the page they have read. There is a scroll bar on the right hand side of the page on my current device, but that isn't always present on all devices.
I was working on a user dashboard recently and decided to add some more signposting to values being updated. Users were able to select different parameters in order to produce different values, but I thought that the values being updated weren't clear enough.
I have been a web developer for quite a few years, and one constant that is an unfortunate story in the industry is the rescue project. This is a web project that has been mismanaged by an agency or developer in some way so that the site is at a critical point.