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    6 Painful Things Clients Say to Designers (and How to Respond)

    If you're a web designer who has spent any amount of time talking to clients, you have undoubtedly had some uncomfortable, difficult, or even offensive comments made to you by those customers. Typically, these customers are not trying to offend you. There are legitimate reasons for...

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    GSAP + SVG for Power Users 2: Complex Responsive Animation

    This is the second article in a series about the GreenSock Animation API and SVG. This series isn't intended for beginners, but rather a deep dive into some of the more exciting and lesser-known features that one can work with after they've gotten past the initial...

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    Serve a Directory with Node.js

    As I mentioned in Serve a Directory with Python, sometimes you need a directory to be "served" instead of loading the file:// location within your browser.  In the past I would mess around with MAMPStack and swapping out httpdocs directories, but there are better tools these...

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    OSCON Portland:  Free Expo Plus Passes

    The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is just a few weeks away and we have free expo plus passes available. OSCON is the best place to sharpen your skills and discover important new trends, making you better at what you do and rekindling your love...

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    Merge Arrays with JavaScript

    Merging arrays is a fairly common occurrence.  I remember when I worked a lot with PHP I would use array_merge() all the time.  I found myself merging arrays often when handling form submission. JavaScript has a simple, native function for merging arrays (concat) but it produces a new array.

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    Confessions of a Web Developer XV

    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: I sometimes regret being a software engineer.  I've been doing a lot of manual labor for a friend...

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    Making Data Management Easy with Transpose

    One problem with data collection is that we all want capture to be quick and we all want data to be organized -- but there's seldom a utility that allows both. Evernote allows note-taking but it can lose its structure...and no one wants...

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    Serve a Directory via Python

    Sometimes I'm working with a test HTML file and some JavaScript but need to work off of a served space.  In that case, I sometimes need to swap out folders within MAMP Stack which leads to a maintenance nightmare.  Bleh. I recently found out that you can...

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    OSCON Portland:  Conference  Discount!

    O'Reilly puts on the best web industry conferences in the world.  These conferences include Fluent Conference, Velocity Conference, and the upcoming OSCON in Portland, Oregon from July 20-24.  Open Source Convention (OSCON) is a conference that focuses specifically on open source developers and the tools and possibilities...

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    Follow Redirects with cURL

    I love playing around with cURL. There's something about loading websites via command line that makes me feel like some type of smug hacker, just like tweeting from command line does. I recently cURL'd the Google homepage and saw the following: I found it weird that Google...