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• By David WalshJune 15, 2015

  File Extension Change Shortcut

  Changing the extension of a file seems like something you would do often enough to know how to do it from command line.  One annoying part of moving a file is repeating the file name a second time when all I want to do is change the...

• By Neal O’GradyJune 15, 2015

  Intro to JavaScript Animation

  Despite what many developers believe, CSS-based animation is not the only performant way to animate on the web. There's also JavaScript—and JS has some incredible advantages. By abandoning JavaScript for CSS, like many developers do, we are bloating our stylesheets, sacrificing animation timing control, and forgoing physics-based...

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• By David WalshJune 11, 2015

  Get Image Dimensions from Command Line

  The command line is a gold mine if you come from the perspective of a UI lover.  Getting information from the shell instead of opening an app, finding a file or directory, etc...what a novel concept.  Opening different image files opens up different apps on my Mac...

• By David WalshJune 10, 2015

  Remove Audio From Video

  Sometimes I want to display live motion without the audio, since the audio is either bad quality or it's just extra load, which is especially important on mobile.  You could probably argue converting the video to GIF is more appropriate, but GIFs can be larger and more taxing on...

• By David WalshJune 8, 2015

  Top Web Developer Tools You Need To Know About

  We have gathered 11 of the most simple, yet efficient top developer tools, that you must have in order to improve your businesses and projects. Feel free to read about them and please leave a comment so we all know your opinion. uKit Website Builder

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• By David WalshJune 8, 2015

  Basics of Monkey Patching

  As one of the MooTools team and someone who worked with the Dojo Toolkit for years, I quickly learned one lesson:  you never modify the source of a library when using it on a given web app.  Doing so makes upgrades of the library a nightmare and...

• By Jason LemieuxJune 5, 2015

  Improving WordPress Commenting with Postmatic

  We've set out to create a fantastic commenting plugin for WordPress. It's called Postmatic and what it does is a first for any blogging system: to allow synchronous 100% email and web-based commenting. The web folks can engage via the web. The email folks can stick...

• By David WalshJune 4, 2015

  git: Delete All Branches but Master

  Maintenance is incredibly important in any project, but if you want to take your professionalism to the next level, you should keep your git environment in shape.  Unfortunately I'm not that guy -- I leave git branches laying around, even after they've been merged into master.

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• By Nir BarlevJune 3, 2015

  4 Selling Points For Your Next Website Design Pitch

  An important skill for those looking to build a successful web design career is learning to effectively sell your services by explaining to clients the benefits of redesigning their website. While different clients will have different things that are important to them in a new website...

• By David WalshJune 2, 2015

  7 Essential JavaScript Functions

  I remember the early days of JavaScript where you needed a simple function for just about everything because the browser vendors implemented features differently, and not just edge features, basic features, like addEventListener and attachEvent.  Times have changed but there are still a few functions each developer should...