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Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools
My favorite technological piece of Google Plus is its image upload and display handling. You can drag the images from your OS right into a browser's DIV element, the images upload right before your eyes, and the albums page displays a sexy photo deck animation...
Lazy Load Content and Widgets with MooTools and RequireJS
The idea of lazy loading content is not new; we've been lazy loading images (check out my MooTools LazyLoad plugin) for quite a while now. And why wouldn't you lazy load content? There are SEO advantages, load time advantages, bandwidth savings, and more, so including a bit of...
Thoughts on Google+
It's been a few weeks now since Google+ has hit the scene and and I've had a good amount of time to play with it. The following are some unorganized thoughts about Google+: The joke about "Google finally hired a designer" is old but true -- the...
Create a Google+ Mac App for Your Dock
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that Google+ is my new tech porn. Google+ is the same technological marvel we've come to expect from Google apps, but the elegant but still simplistic design is a welcomed change from Google. I want to get used to...
Add a Google+1 Badge to Your Website
Google's new Google+ service is taking the development world by storm, and why shouldn't it? It's minimalistic UI, use of cutting edge web techniques, and overall usability make it Google+ one of the more impressive web applications I've seen in quite a while (I was going...
Google+ Invites
Whenever I get an invite to a hot new web app, I feel like Charlie when he got the golden ticket. Obviously I'm easy to impress, but I'm sure some of you may be too. I could just give them to whoever asks, but that's far...
Introducing LazyLoad 2.0
While improvements in browsers means more cool APIs for us to play with, it also means we need to maintain existing code. With Firefox 4's release came news that my MooTools LazyLoad plugin was not intercepting image loading -- the images were loading regardless of...
Managing Firefox Add-ons with Version Updates
Mozilla has decided to aggressively version and update their Firefox browser, much like Chrome has been, pushing out new major releases every 6 weeks. I don't care what the version number is as long as the product improves (whether it be Firefox or any other...
Compile LESS CSS Files with the LESS App
Last week I showed you how you can easily create your own Dijit theme with LESS CSS. The process of creating LESS files is simple, as is compilation of said files, but I was frequently forgetting to compile the .less files before checking the style...
Edge & Mobile Browsers
From a developer's perspective, the Web is moving faster than ever. Thanks to reinvigorated browser vendors, frequent releases of new mobile devices, and our own need for better APIs and tools, we're seeing loads of movement across each platform. Since browser vendors like Mozilla...