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• By David WalshMarch 16, 2015

  Get and Set HTML5 Video Current Time

  Last week I explored how you could get the duration of a HTML5 video.  It's an important technique, obviously, but one that may be a bit more important is managing the video's time setting.  Both setting and getting the video's time is important when creating a chrome...

• By Landon SchroppMarch 16, 2015

  Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us

  Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...

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• By David WalshMarch 10, 2015

  Get HTML5 Video Duration

  HTML5 video is exciting, if only for the reason that we no longer need Flash or other third party plugins to render media.  We can also create custom controls and displays around the video, and one of those displays should be the duration of the video.  Let me...

• By David WalshMarch 9, 2015

  Web Notifications API

  Every UI framework has the same set of widgets which have become almost essential to modern sites: modals, tooltips, button varieties, and notifications.  One problem I find is each site having their own widget colors, styles, and more -- users don't get a consistent experience.  Apparently the...

• By David WalshMarch 2, 2015

  Indent JSON with JavaScript

  Working with XML and JavaScript is a nightmare, which is why JSON has become gold in the development community.  Hell, I even wrote a function to turn XML to JSON with JavaScript.  If you want to turn an existing object into well formatted JSON, you can you JSON.stringify(obj), but...

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• By David WalshMarch 2, 2015

  Add HTML Elements to XUL Addons

  I've been working on a new addon at Mozilla which isn't anywhere near finished so I wont bother telling you what it's meant to do...because it could change at any moment.  Since this is my first real addon, it's been a struggle, but that's a good...

• By David WalshFebruary 25, 2015

  Watch Files and Directories with Node.js

  Watching a file or directory for changes is an important part of automation.  We all enjoy using our favorite CSS preprocessor's "watch" feature -- we can still refresh the page and see our changes as though we were simply writing in pure CSS.  Node.js makes both file...

• By David WalshFebruary 24, 2015

  Sync Gulp Tasks with run-sequence

  gulp.js is an awesome utility for so many things.  I've recently started using gulp as a build tool for the next blog redesign, whenever that may come.  In the past I had written my own build scripts but they quickly got messy and I ran into...

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• By David WalshFebruary 23, 2015

  JavaScript Battery API: Promises

  Working at Mozilla has afforded me the time to look at new APIs, one of them being the Battery API.  I wrote about the Battery API a while back, when the API was fresh into browsers.  Since then the Battery API has changed, implementing a promise-based...

• By David WalshFebruary 23, 2015

  Mighty Deals: Microthemer: Code-Free Visual WP Theme and Plugin Editor

  WordPress' open-source nature offers a tremendous amount of freedom when it comes to creating and adjusting your themes. But if you're not an expert in HTML or CSS, it can be a major hassle! Well, put your frustrations aside, because with Microthemer from