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    WordPress AJAX Comments

    There are many functionalities on the web that were just begging to be AJAXified.  Whether it be voting on a poll or simply commenting on a blog post, there's really no reason to reload an entire page for something so simple.  This blog has featured AJAX...

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    CSS Fade

    Web developers have been using fade ins and fade outs (basic opacity animation) on their website for years, but the effect needed to be accomplished using JavaScript because CSS didn't have the capability to complete animations.  The tides have turned:  CSS fading is now possible...

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    Chris Coyier:  Perspective of a Preprocessor, About a Year In

    I've been using CSS preprocessors for about a year now. I gave all of them a try. LESS first, then Stylus, then Sass. All on real projects, not just poking around and tinkering with syntax. They are all pretty good. The truth is, developer to developer...

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    Giveaway:  $250 BuySellAds.com Credit!

    When I first created this blog, I used Google AdSense as my advertising avenue.  It was horrible -- no one ever clicked on ads and, simply put, there seems to be no real money in using that service.  I graduated on to managing my...

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    Making the Firefox Logo from HTML

    When each new t-shirt means staving off laundry for yet another day, swag quickly becomes the most coveted perk at any tech company. Mozilla WebDev had pretty much everything going for it: brilliant people, interesting problems, awesome office. Everything except a t-shirt. That had to change. The basic...

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    Game Configuration with JSON

    The Scenario For the past month or so, I've been spending some time making web games using Node and Express. One thing I wanted to do was reduce reliance on content management via database, where the typical process is the following: Log into the site Validate that I have...

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    Block Domains & Subdomains Using .htaccess

    A large focus of my redesign was improving site speed, and in doing so, I took a look at my site's error_log for the first time in a long time.  I was shocked when I found out that 90% of my site errors were either hacking...

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    How Cobalt Calibur Uses Canvas to Display Sprite-Based Graphics

    Hi, I'm Thomas Hunter, creator of Cobalt Calibur, an HTML5 multiplayer game. I'm here to tell you about how I used the new HTML5 canvas API to provide visuals using sprite-based graphics. This is similar to how old game consoles such as the NES...

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    Setup to Build Responsive Websites

    Not long ago, the biggest challenge for a web engineer was making sites that worked well in several different browsers. While that is still the case, our challenge is shifting to supporting the growing number of devices. I have come across a few tools and paradigms...

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    Don’t Forget About Favicons on Retina Screens

    Thomas Fuchs needs no introduction. I've looked up to Thomas' animation artistry since his Prototype/script.aculo.us days. He's more recently created Zepto.js, a micro multipurpose library for desktop and mobile devices. His latest creation, however, is an awesome eBook called