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By David WalshJuly 25, 2012
CSS 3D Folding Animation
Google Plus provides loads of inspiration for front-end developers, especially when it comes to the CSS and JavaScript wonders they create. Last year I duplicated their incredible PhotoStack effect with both MooTools and pure CSS; this time I'm going to duplicate...
By David WalshNovember 2, 2015
JavaScript Promise API
While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world...

By David WalshApril 25, 2013
CSS Background Animations
Background animations are an awesome touch when used correctly. In the past, I used MooTools to animate a background position. Luckily these days CSS animations are widely supported enough to rely on them to take over JavaScript-based animation tasks. The following simple CSS snippet animates...
By David WalshJanuary 30, 2012
Image Data URIs with PHP
If you troll page markup like me, you've no doubt seen the use of data URI's within image src attributes. Instead of providing a traditional address to the image, the image file data is base64-encoded and stuffed within the src attribute. Doing so saves...