Tutorials Page 132

• By Jeremy MartinOctober 25, 2012

  Rolling Your Own RSS Feed with Express and Jade

  RSS feeds are a great way to facilitate a loyal readership. In fact, as I write this, the RSS feed in David's sidebar is touting over 11,400 subscribers. Hitting the front page of Hacker News is always nice, but for most sites that's not...

• By David WalshOctober 24, 2012

  Get the jQuery Version

  Many JavaScript frameworks provide a version property on their main object, providing a quick bit of important information about the framework.  The main jQuery object doesn't provide this property, however, so developers need to do a bit more work to get that version information.  Here's how...

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• By David WalshOctober 24, 2012

  WordPress AJAX Comments

  There are many functionalities on the web that were just begging to be AJAXified.  Whether it be voting on a poll or simply commenting on a blog post, there's really no reason to reload an entire page for something so simple.  This blog has featured AJAX...

• By David WalshOctober 18, 2012

  CSS Fade

  Web developers have been using fade ins and fade outs (basic opacity animation) on their website for years, but the effect needed to be accomplished using JavaScript because CSS didn't have the capability to complete animations.  The tides have turned:  CSS fading is now possible...

• By Chris CoyierOctober 17, 2012

  Chris Coyier: Perspective of a Preprocessor, About a Year In

  I've been using CSS preprocessors for about a year now. I gave all of them a try. LESS first, then Stylus, then Sass. All on real projects, not just poking around and tinkering with syntax. They are all pretty good. The truth is, developer to developer...

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• By David WalshOctober 16, 2012

  Giveaway: $250 BuySellAds.com Credit!

  When I first created this blog, I used Google AdSense as my advertising avenue.  It was horrible -- no one ever clicked on ads and, simply put, there seems to be no real money in using that service.  I graduated on to managing my...

• By Greg KobergerOctober 16, 2012

  Making the Firefox Logo from HTML

  When each new t-shirt means staving off laundry for yet another day, swag quickly becomes the most coveted perk at any tech company. Mozilla WebDev had pretty much everything going for it: brilliant people, interesting problems, awesome office. Everything except a t-shirt. That had to change. The basic...

• By Edna PiranhaOctober 15, 2012

  Game Configuration with JSON

  The Scenario For the past month or so, I've been spending some time making web games using Node and Express. One thing I wanted to do was reduce reliance on content management via database, where the typical process is the following: Log into the site Validate that I have...

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• By David WalshOctober 15, 2012

  Block Domains & Subdomains Using .htaccess

  A large focus of my redesign was improving site speed, and in doing so, I took a look at my site's error_log for the first time in a long time.  I was shocked when I found out that 90% of my site errors were either hacking...

• By Thomas HunterOctober 12, 2012

  How Cobalt Calibur Uses Canvas to Display Sprite-Based Graphics

  Hi, I'm Thomas Hunter, creator of Cobalt Calibur, an HTML5 multiplayer game. I'm here to tell you about how I used the new HTML5 canvas API to provide visuals using sprite-based graphics. This is similar to how old game consoles such as the NES...