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The Truth About Growing Up
There's a harsh reality: we're "grown ups" these days. Every once in a while, however, I see an image that takes me back to my childhood. My childhood was full of sports and video games and I can't help but smile on those...
Force Stack Traces with JavaScript
I recently inherited a Node.js project and man is that scary. The code was well written but whenever you inherit a project you instantly inherit the fear of messing things up. My goal was to fix a fairly routine bug, and finding the issue was fairly easy, but tracing...
Combining JavaScript Arrays
This is a quickie simple post on JavaScript techniques. We're going to cover different methods for combining/merging two JS arrays, and the pros/cons of each approach. Let's start with the scenario: The simple concatenation of
a
andb
would, obviously, be:concat(..)
The most common approach is: As you can see...Professional Web Designers Use These Apps. Do You?
If you want your web design services to be in high demand, and your agency/individual practice to thrive, then there are certain administrative aspects that you absolutely need to tend to. I'll make it easier for you. Below, you will find a rich list comprised of...
Wrapping Text Nodes and Elements with JavaScript
When you work on a site that relies on a given JavaScript toolkit, you unintentionally end up trying to solve problems within the bounds of the toolkit and not the language. Such was the case when I tried wrapping text (possibly including HTML elements) with a
DIV
...Add Rules to Stylesheets with JavaScript
Since we're using so much JavaScript in our web applications these days, we're looking for more ways to keep them fast. We use event delegation to keep event listening efficient, we use function debouncing to limit the number a times a given method can...
Geeksphone Peak Firefox OS Unboxing
Any time you get a new device it's like instant Christmas. Whether it's top of the line or bottom of the barrel, we're always excited to check out unique devices to see what we can learn, check out what apps are popular, and test the websites we...
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...
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...
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...