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    Smack Talk:  Calling Myself Out

    So listen, I'm not perfect.  I'm full of ego, I'm a bit stubborn, and some would call me opinionated.  Well guess what?  I've been wrong. I've felt strongly about some web development topics and now, a few years later, I realize that I was dead wrong...

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    Introducing MooTools HeatMap

    It's often interesting to think about where on a given element, whether it be the page, an image, or a static DIV, your users are clicking.  With that curiosity in mind, I've created HeatMap: a MooTools class that allows you to detect, load, save, and...

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    Thoughts on Code Commenting

    One of the "behind the scenes" ways of organizing your code and making it maintainable is code commenting.  Whether you're coding in Java, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or any language for that matter, code commenting plays an important role in making your development life easy.  I thought...

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    Web Inspector and Firefox Dollar Functions

    Many of you probably didn't know this but WebKit-based like Safari and Chrome, in addition to Firefox, contain special dollar functions within the console object that allow you to grab elements within the current page.  While I've not determined the use of each method, a few...

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    JavaScript Copy to Clipboard with Branding

    I published a post a year ago detailing how you can copy to the clipboard using JavaScript.  The post was very popular and why would it be?  Copying content from a webpage without needing to use the default browser functions is awesome.  One trend I've...

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    MooTools 1.3 Browser Object

    MooTools 1.3 was just released and one of the big additions is the Browser object.  The Browser object is very helpful in that not only do you get information about browser type and browser versions, you can gain information about the user's OS, browser plugins, and...

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    Mobile Touch Events in MooTools 1.3

    The release of MooTools 1.3 brings about a vast array of new functionality to the JavaScript framework.  One big new addition to MooTools Core is the ability to detect mobile events:  touchstart, touchmove, touchend, touchcancel, gesturestart, gesturechange, gestureend, and orientationchange.  Let me show you...

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    MooTools 1.3 Has Arrived!

    After a year of hard work, listening to the MooTools community's needs, and some more hard work, the MooTools team is proud to release MooTools 1.3!  Below is a summary of what's awesome in MooTools at the moment. Core 1.3 MooTools Core 1.3 is everything you...

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    Search Engine Friendly URLs with .htaccess and mod_rewrite

    I was recently developing a PHP website that used mod_rewrite to make its URLs search engine friendly. Websites have been using mod_rewrite and .htaccess strategies to do this for years now and there are a 100 ways to accomplish the task. One issue that...

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    Integrity: Link Checker for Mac

    I usually don't post about desktop applications because, quite frankly, I make my living creating awesome web apps.  I did, however, recently stumble upon a free utility which searches for broken links within a website.  That utility is the awesome Integrity application for Snow Leopard. Integrity is...