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How to Build a Winning Portfolio Website for Free
Your professional design experience tells other people who you are and what it is that you've been doing, so the more interesting your portfolio, the better the odds of it drawing attention and landing clients. I searched the web far and wide, and finally decided on...
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Serve SVG as an Image on Apache with .htaccess
I've been a massive fan of SVG since my days creating charts and animations with the Dojo Toolkit. SVG has been around forever, it even has IE support now, and it's ultra-flexible. When creating this site's redesign, I used SVG within an IMG tag and...
asynquence: More Than Just Promises (Part 2)
asynquence Is Promises As we saw in part 1, asynquence is a wrapper abstraction on top of promises, as sequences. A single-step sequence approximates a promise, though they're not identically compatible. However, that's no big deal, since asynquence can both consume and vend standard promises/thenables...
asynquence: The Promises You Don’t Know Yet (Part 1)
on("before", start)Normally, my blog posts (and training workshops, for that matter!) are intended to teach something, and in the process I highlight projects that I've written to explore and experiment in that area. I find that to be an effective aid to teaching. However, this blog post...![Pub/Sub JavaScript Object]()
Pub/Sub JavaScript Object
There are three keys to effective AJAX-driven websites: event delegation, History management, and effective app-wide communication with pub/sub. This blog employs of all of these techniques, and I thought I'd share the simplest of them: a tiny pub/sub module I use on this site. If you've...
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Creating Scrolling Parallax Effects with CSS
Introduction For quite a long time now websites with the so called "parallax" effect have been really popular. In case you have not heard of this effect, it basically includes different layers of images that are moving in different directions or with different speed. This leads to a...
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Remove WordPress Admin Bar CSS
A version or two back, WordPress decided to add a toolbar for logged in users on the display side that's about the site's theme. I get why they did it but it's an annoyance to me -- I don't care to see it. To accomplish this...
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Treehouse iPad App
I've been championing my sponsor, Treehouse, for a long time. Their online video tutorials are high quality, their price point is excellent for those who don't want to pay the extortion that is traditional college, and they provide education for a variety of...
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Tweet for Code #3
You don't need a thousand lines of code to make a big difference in any coding language. Oftentimes it's quite the opposite: a few tiny code snippets can do a world of good and accomplish big things. I asked my Twitter followers to tweet to me...
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Giveaway: O’Reilly Velocity Conference Ticket
A few months back, O'Reilly was awesome enough to throw me two tickets to giveaway for the upcoming O'Reilly Velocity Conference, the popular front-end performance event in Santa Clara, CA, US from June 24th-26th. People seemed pretty excited about the giveaway and...
