APIs Tutorials

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    Five Top Quality APIs

    It's easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don't consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here's the thing -- thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API...

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    Automatically Rebase GitHub Pull Requests

    Working on an open source project with a thriving contribution community is one of the great joys I have at Mozilla. In leading this charge, I get to meet amazing people of all different skill sets and interests, as well as different points of...

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    Amazing User Agent API with userstack

    We do our best to design and code websites so that they look and perform the way they should regardless of device or browser, but the truth is we sometimes we need to code for specific device, browser, or crawler. Whether it's a quick hack or...

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    5 Awesome New Mozilla Technologies You’ve Never Heard Of

    My trip to Mozilla Summit 2013 was incredible.  I've spent so much time focusing on my project that I had lost sight of all of the great work Mozillians were putting out.  MozSummit provided the perfect reminder of how brilliant my colleagues are and how much...

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    Change Mac App Icons

    If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I recently got a new MacBook Pro.  Setting up a new machine is a pornographic euphoric experience:  no app collisions, optimal performance, and a fresh canvas to work with.  The first step is setting up your...

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    Using Font Awesome Icons without <i> Tags

    If you've not used glyph icon libraries like Font Awesome before, you're really missing out.  They're incredibly useful, flexible, and are easy to implement via markup.  The normal method for using font awesome is by using an <i> element with an icon-specific CSS class: This...

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    Chris Coyier&#8217;s Favorite CodePen Demos

    David asked me if I'd be up for a guest post picking out some of my favorite Pens from CodePen. A daunting task! There are so many! I managed to pick a few though that have blown me away over the past few months. If you...

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    Prism Line Number Plugin

    The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is in the midst of a remodel (sorry for the spoiler) and we've been implementing features incrementally.  One larger front-end change we'll be implementing is using the PrismJS for document code syntax highlighting.  One requirement of MDN's syntax highlighter...

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    How to Create a Twitter Card

    One of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook.  Adding just a few META tags to each page allowed links to my article to be styled and presented the way I wanted them to, giving me a bit of control...

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    Xbox Live Gamer API

    My sharpshooter status aside, I've always been surprised upset that Microsoft has never provided an API for the vast amount of information about users, the games they play, and statistics within the games. Namely, I'd like to publicly shame every n00b I've baptized with my...