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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...
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Detect if a Function is Native Code with JavaScript
Every once a while I'll test is a given function is native code -- it's an important part of feature testing whether a function was provided by the browser or via a third party shim which acts like the native feature. The best way to detect this, of...
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Try Treehouse!
Treehouse has been a mainstay of web learning for a few years now and I'm amazed at how they've grown. You'd expect them to teach basic stuff like web design and JavaScript, but they've moved on to broader but important topics like...
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The X Theme: Inside Look, Customer Showcase & More
Word has it that X, which was released by Themeco (theme.co) at the end of last year, is a great asset for web designers and developers everywhere - and the last website theme you'll have to buy. As more professionals hurry to get their hands...
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Velocity NY is Coming!
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 3 more tickets left to give away to this epic front-end performance conference! In my...
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Getting Concurrent With ES6 Generators
If you've read and digested part 1, part 2, and part 3 of this blog post series, you're probably feeling pretty confident with ES6 generators at this point. Hopefully you're inspired to really push the envelope and see what you can do with...
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Building Web Apps Faster Using Angus
When it comes to building web apps, there are a couple of tools available that help you develop faster. There's GruntJS, GulpJS, Brunch and others which streamline your workflow by doing a series of build tasks: Test the code Clean the build directory Copy source files...
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Velocity New York: Ticket Giveaway
A few months back, O'Reilly gave me two free tickets to give away for Velocity Conference in Santa Clara. The chosen two reported back to me that the conference was incredible, as did a Mozilla colleague that quickly came back and implemented a bunch of...
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The Best Summer Stock Image Sources are Here. Check Them Out.
As a website designer or developer, you soon learn to appreciate how important it is to have a ready source to fill your needs for stock photography. For most large projects where images or illustrations are required, the use of stock photographs can be the only...
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Append and Prepend to WordPress RSS Feed Content
The awesome part of RSS is that it lets you pull content wherever you want. The bad part, as a publisher, is that the user may be missing out on important information that is on the site but doesn't display in articles. WordPress' hook system to the rescue! The PHP We're going...
