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fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it,
XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...![How I Stopped WordPress Comment Spam]()
How I Stopped WordPress Comment Spam
I love almost every part of being a tech blogger: learning, preaching, bantering, researching. The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe: dealing with SPAM comments. For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day. PER DAY. Bloating my database...
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Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo
My journey into Dojo JavaScript has been exciting and I'm continuing to learn more as I port MooTools scripts to Dojo. My latest experiment is porting a simple new scroller from MooTools to Dojo. The code is very similar! The HTML The news items...
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jQuery Chosen Plugin
Without a doubt, my least favorite form element is the
SELECTelement. The element is almost unstylable, looks different across platforms, has had inconsistent value access, and disaster that is the result ofmultiple=trueis, well, a disaster. Needless to say, whenever a developer goes...




