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    Giveaway: 2 Free Tickets to Velocity Conference in NY

    O'Reilly's Velocity Conference is quickly approaching -- it's September 15-17 in beautiful New York. As a follow up to last month's post, I wanted to make sure people knew I had 2 more tickets left to give away to this epic front-end...

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    Create a CSS Flipping Animation

    CSS animations are a lot of fun; the beauty of them is that through many simple properties, you can create anything from an elegant fade in to a WTF-Pixar-would-be-proud effect. One CSS effect somewhere in between is the CSS flip effect, whereby there's...

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    Building an Online Shop for Your Client? Use One of These WooCommerce Themes

    All around the world, hundreds of retail stores see the light of day every week, and they need to have an engaging online presence, as more and more customers are doing their shopping via the internet. This is where designers step in. It is common knowledge...

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    Retrieving requestAnimationFrame with JavaScript

    The requestAnimationFrame function has been a major boost to developers creating and managing animations with JavaScript.  Paul Irish has an excellent introduction on requestAnimationFrame -- I highly recommend you read it.  This HTML5Hub post is also very good.  Most browsers now support the animation function but in...

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    20 Great Tools for Developers

    If 7 years ago web developer jobs were almost unheard of, nowadays the situation has changed completely. In a very short period of time the Internet has evolved quickly into a web of millions of sites. You can do everything from your living room as long...

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    JavaScript Redirects and window.open

    One of the sweet parts in the simplified HTML5 spec was allowing A elements to wrap DIVs and other block level elements.  For too long we added JavaScript listeners and window.location redirects when a wrapping A would have probably sufficed.  But there are also times when the wrapping A wouldn't work...

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    CSS `do-*`

    For years we've used CSS classes as not only stylistic functionality but also as signifiers or "triggers" for JavaScript functionality.  For example, Mozilla uses a #tabzilla element (coupled with a JavaScript file that looks for it) to inject the Tabzilla widget.  Using #tabzilla is nice, and even though it's an ID...

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    The Truth About Programming Perception

    When I tell people that I'm a web programmer, they think I'm a genius.  When I tell them I work for the company that makes Firefox, they think I'm some sort of God.  I'd be willing to bet other developers out there get the same treatment.  And I don't...

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    Remove Mobile Firefox Button Gradient

    If you have an Android device, you've gotta check out Firefox for Android.  It's an outstanding mobile browser -- it has been very well received and you can even install apps from the Firefox Marketplace from within this awesome browser.  One usability practice implemented by Firefox for...

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    JavaScript insertAdjacentHTML and beforeend

    In case you didn't know:  the damn DOM is slow.  As we make our websites more dynamic and AJAX-based, we need to find ways of manipulating the DOM with as little impact on performance as possible.  A while back I mentioned DocumentFragments, a clever way...