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    Create a Virtual Host in OSX

    As someone who had always developed on PCs, switching over to using Mac OS X was like going from peasant to prince.  Compared to Windows-based machines, Mac's OS X operating system is light years better.  One OS X feature I make much use of is the integrated...

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    Recursively Delete .svn Directories

    Version control systems are hugely important when it comes to development of all kinds.  I'm a huge fan of git but sometimes I'm required to use SVN.  Unfortunately I tend to forget to remove .svn folders when I copy and paste from a directory structure template.

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    Event Delegation with MooTools, Dojo, and jQuery

    I've covered the ins and outs of event delegation within JavaScript a few weeks ago but most developers utilize JavaScript frameworks so I thought I'd take a few moments to show you how to implement this wonderful event strategy with the MooTools, Dojo, and jQuery...

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    Confessions of a Web Developer X

    It's been quite a while since I've gotten a few things off of my chest and since I'm always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: The more I work with advanced JavaScript-based web applications, the more I wish all web browsers...

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    Create a Dojo Lightbox with dojox.image.Lightbox

    One of the reasons I love the Dojo Toolkit is that it seems to have everything.  No scouring for a plugin from this site and then another plugin from that site to build my application.  Buried within the expansive dojox namespace of Dojo is

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    How JavaScript Event Delegation Works

    One of the hot methodologies in the JavaScript world is event delegation, and for good reason.  Event delegation allows you to avoid adding event listeners to specific nodes;  instead, the event listener is added to one parent.  That event listener analyzes bubbled events to find a...

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    Dojo Toolkit API Bookmarklet

    You probably know by know that I enjoy using JavaScript-powered bookmarklets to retrieve information.  I create a jQuery documentation bookmarklet, a MooTools class sniffer bookmarklet, and a  even a bookmarklet to allow you to submit articles to Script & Style.  I work extensively with...

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    Android Detection with JavaScript or PHP

    I've noticed that two of my blog posts continue to get more popular each week:  iPad Detection with JavaScript or PHP and iPhone and iPad detection with JavaScript or PHP. What's obvious is that Android development is a hot topic that will only...

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    JSONP with jQuery, MooTools, and Dojo

    We all know that the big limitation of AJAX is that cross-domain requests aren't allowed.  We also know, however, that we skirt around that rule a bit by using JSONP.  JSONP is the process of SCRIPT tag injection, referencing a cross-domain URL and providing a callback...

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    RealTime Stock Quotes with MooTools Request.Stocks and YQL

    It goes without saying but MooTools' inheritance pattern allows for creation of small, simple classes that possess immense power.  One example of that power is a class that inherits from Request, Request.JSON, and Request.JSONP:  Request.Stocks.  Created by Enrique Erne, this great MooTools class acts as...