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    Game of Thrones Snapchat Filter

    If you follow me on Twitter, you know I'm a massive Game of Thrones fan.   I may not know every name but my mind has a mental map of every angle and epic battle. Not since Sopranos has there been a television show...

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    Match Special Letters with PHP Regular Expressions

    Regular expressions come with all sorts of peculiarities, one of which I recently ran into when creating a regex within PHP and preg_match.  I was trying to parse strings with the format "Real Name (:username)" when I ran into a problem I would see a lot...

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    async & await

    JavaScript promises were a revelation in JavaScript, providing an alternative to the JavaScript callback hell we'd quickly found ourselves in.  Promises also allowed us to introduce and better handle asynchronous tasks.  While promises were an improvement over callback hell, they still require lots of thens...

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    Getting Tired of Endless Client Revisions? 270+ Pre-Built Websites Are the Solution

    Website revisions are to be expected. They also tend to be few and are usually minor in nature. However, some clients never seem to be satisfied. Sometimes, they also have a problem explaining what they expect from you. On the other hand, your design tools could be...

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    Thinking JavaScript

    I was teaching a JavaScript workshop the other day and one of the attendees asked me a JS brain teaser during the lunch break that really got me thinking. His claim was that he ran across it accidentally, but I'm a bit skeptical; it might just...

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    Retrieve Custom Field Values for Phabricator Objects

    Phabricator is an incredibly well-coded PHP application but lacks a bit on the documentation side.  Then again, what open source project isn't?  Over the past months I've been slowly integrating Phabricator, a newish review tool, with Bugzilla, a much older tool.  The most recent step saw...

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    Easy to Use Tools and Resources to Make Your Work More Efficient

    How to deal with procrastination? You can read all the books and articles you want to about dealing with it. Yet, there's always something, a website project, for example, that you're still reluctant to tackle. Maybe it's the tools you're working with, and you need a few...

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    Detect WEBP Support with JavaScript

    Image optimization is a huge part of improving front-end performance.  We've traditionally used JPG/JPEG, GIF, and PNG images but Google and the Chrome team developed the WEBP format which crunches file size and optimizes rendering.  If you go to a site like GIPHY in Chrome you'll...

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    Binding Online Signatures with Eversign

    The early days of internet interactivity were silly polls, forums, guestbooks, and the most basic of forms.  As time has gone on, however, we're doing much more crucial and important business online, and here's a not-so-bold prediction:  we're only going to be doing more crucial...

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    Top WordPress Themes You Should Know for Startups and Small Businesses

    Facing fierce competition is something that many small businesses and startups share. It can at times be tough to attract new customers and to keep existing ones. These days, small enterprises are discovering the benefits of having a professionally-designed website. They see it as a way of...