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Working Smarter: Keep a code snippets library

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

I have fallen short on this until recently. I had a number of production websites I had worked on with different techniques and interface design patterns which I knew where certain code was and could access to copy and paste bits out for editing. This is not the most efficient way to work as code still has to be found within the websites file structure and usually it has been highly customised for a particular job. It is better to store code snippets within a dedicated directory. I have been building mine over the past five or six weeks. As well as code snippets, I have taken it a little further and added a design patterns folder which contains anything from a simple menu to a JavaScript library driven carousel or image gallery glider. Each design pattern has its own folder and within it all the necessary documents to make up a working example: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image assets.

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