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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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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...
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JavaScript and CSS Spinners with spin.js
I think it's safe to say the days of using images to provide the "small touches" are over. We can now safely create gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners, and scaled, rotated, transformed animations. It seems we've now moved on to replacing...
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Google Extension Effect with CSS or jQuery or MooTools JavaScript
Both of the two great browser vendors, Google and Mozilla, have Extensions pages that utilize simple but classy animation effects to enhance the page. One of the extensions used by Google is a basic margin-top animation to switch between two panes: a graphic pane...



