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    Consolidate Statistics with Segment

    Analytics in our industry are huge, and when I say analytics, I mean each of the different types of analytics that site and app creators track: Visitor information Error and event tracking Conversions A/B testing Being a web developer, I'm usually most interested in the error tracking stuff, but you can bet the designers...

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    Permissions API

    Many of the functionalities that we're translated from mobile to the web require permission from the user.  Think about geolocation, audio/video access (think getUserMedia for camera access), and likewise APIs.  We can probably all agree that requiring permission for access to these APIs is a good thing, but I see a...

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    How to Complete Web Projects Faster with a Design Collaboration Tool

    As developers, we're constantly making changes and revisions during a web project – everyone's requesting changes to the design, even as the project has moved into the development phase – and throughout the revision process, we're always looking for ways to save time. The problem is...

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    O’Reilly Velocity Conference – Santa Clara Giveaway!

    O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara is right around the bend:  June 20-23, 2016.  Velocity is boasting an awesome lineup of speakers covering several different topics.  Learn to build websites, apps, and services that are fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available! Velocity is my favorite...

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    Mercurial: Global .hgignore

    I've worked with git for several years and one of my favorite git posts is Create a Global .gitignore which details how you can create a global .gitignore file to ignore certain useless files (think .DS_Store, node_modules, etc.) so that you aren't always adding the same files to every repository's...

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    Git Hook – npm install if package.json is Modified

    Most of the projects I work on these days contain a frequently-modified package.json file to manage dependencies.  You would think by know I'd be used seeing the package.json file when I did a git pull and it would trigger something in my head to execute npm install to ensure I...

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    Manage Client Sites with LightCMS

    My first job was at an agency around 10 years ago.  When I look at the tools out there now, I'm amazed at how quickly the standard has changed.  Sometimes I was made to cobble together an ugly, rigged CMS; other times I was hacking around subpar open...

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    Export and Import Patches with git

    Most of us that use git probably only have use GitHub -- thus is the popularity of their service.  If you (or a parent project) don't use a service like GitHub, however, you'll need to export patches for review.  Let's have a look at how to export a patch...

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    Prevent Body Scrolling

    One of my pet peeves with fixed or absolute positioned elements is the <body> scrolling while you scroll the the positioned element.  Have you ever tried scrolling a dialog and seeing the page scroll in the background?  Awful user experience, bordering on embarrassing.  Yikes. So what's the best way...

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    Complete Server Stability and Security with Plesk

    Every few years my hosting sponsor will provide me a new VPS to host this WordPress blog.  I love having a VPS so I have complete control over my server and the environment but one thing I do know is that I don't want to play...