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    7 Excellent Treehouse Blog Posts

    My sponsor Treehouse has not only an excellent video tutorial service, but also an insightful blog. I wanted to feature a few of the posts I found most useful -- hopefully you get something out of them! Extending Placeholder Selectors with...

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    Prism Line Number Plugin

    The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is in the midst of a remodel (sorry for the spoiler) and we've been implementing features incrementally.  One larger front-end change we'll be implementing is using the PrismJS for document code syntax highlighting.  One requirement of MDN's syntax highlighter...

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    David Walsh on Tech.Pro

    Over the past few weeks I've written four awesome tutorials for Tech.Pro.  If you have a moment, check them out! 9 Ways to Optimize Your Front End Performance As our browsers implement more and more features and the web moves more and more toward...

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    JavaScript: Avoiding Repeated Work

    I love to scavenge the source code of the web's large sites, looking for patterns to both apply to my coding and to find hacks or techniques I'd not heard of before.  One problem I often find with the coding of large sites is repeated operations.

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    BundleHunt:  Mega Creativity Bundle

    The magicians over at BundleHunt have created an impressive bundle made for web designers and developers: the Mega Creativity Bundle. We've partnered with 14 of the world's finest web designers and developers to bring you our first-ever $7 bundle. That's right. You just...

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    CSS attr, content, and L10N

    I have the privilege of working for Mozilla on the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN).  As with any Mozilla-made website, localization is paramount to MDN, so we must be mindful of that when we put text anywhere on the site.  I was recently working on a feature which made...

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    SenchaCon 2013:  Live Like a Rock Star

    There are a handful of outstanding front-end development organizations and Sencha is right at the top of them.  Sencha has done some incredible work, all the way back to the ExtJS days to the modern day Sencha Touch library.  Sencha continues to push the limits...

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    CSS content and attr

    CSS is becoming more and more powerful but in the sense that it allows us to do the little things easily.  There have been larger features added like transitions, animations, and transforms, but one feature that goes under the radar is generated content.  You saw a...

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    Mighty Deals:  WordPress Shortcodes Plugin + 3 Premium WP Themes

    A while back I wrote a post about WordPress Shortcode creation.  Shortcodes are convenient and useful on so many levels and for so many levels of skilled WordPress users.  A basic user can quickly learn shortcodes, as can an expert-level developer.  In short...

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    Windows 8 Pin METAs

    Windows 8 allows for adding websites as apps (or maybe "bookmarks" is a better term) to the home screen, much in the vein that iOS allows users to do the same.  Like iOS devices, Windows 8 allows  users to accomplish this same task using custom...