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    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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    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...

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    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

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    Font Smoothing in Webkit and Firefox

    I don't pretend to be a typography or design expert -- I just know what looks good and what doesn't.  A few years ago I saw a few CSS properties I didn't recognize and when I toggled them on and off, the text went from beautiful to...not...

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    10 Deals You Cannot Pass Up

    Nobody can pass up a good deal, that is perhaps the most well known truth about all of us. Unfortunately, not all deals are as exciting, for example, I would love to get 50% discounts on WordPress themes from a daily deals website, but am less...

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    Clickjacking

    JavaScript security is a big business and for all of the right reasons.  JavaScript lets us do incredible things on the front end but some of those incredible things are for eval evil.  Spyjax used to be one of those evil things but browsers seem to...

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    Choose the Right Tool or Platform for Your Next Web Design Project

    It's a simple matter of looking through this year's top rated plugins and website building platforms. In this post, you have them right before your eyes. No need to go on a wild goose chase and waste hours of your precious time. Before we get started...

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    Scoping CSS Animations to Media Queries

    When coding my blog's redesigns, I think and design the site in device width stages, and in the following order: Desktop:  all general styles, none wrapped in a media query Tablet:  media query, roughly popular tablet widths Phone:  media query, any width below tablet width Print:  media query, mostly a bunch display: none Since I focus on...

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    Fixing Coercion, Not The Symptoms

    TL;DR Your complaints of x == y behaviors being weird, buggy, or downright broken have all blamed == as the culprit. No, it's really not. == is pretty helpful, actually. The problems you're having are not with the == operator itself, but with the underlying values and how...

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    Giveaway:  Software Architecture Conference – Boston

    I know too many developers who consider coding their only responsibility.  Sure, it's the bulk of what we do and how we cut our teeth, but if you aren't aware of the business side of the industry, you're missing out on a lot of why's and...