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    Delay AJAX Searches with JavaScript’s setTimeout

    I was recently creating a custom Dijit widget that required that a list get filtered during each keystroke instead of using the usual "Submit" button.  The problem I ran into (and had anticipated) was that each keystroke made the list flicker and fire off numerous AJAX...

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    Thoughts on Mobile Devices

    Whether I'm smug enough to admit it or not, I'm living the iLife.  Over the past two years, I've been rocking both the iPhone and MacBook Pro.  I was recently gifted an iPad and a Samsung Galaxy Tab, only increasing my ever-growing smugness level.  After playing...

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    HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS

    Last week I showed you how you could style selected text with CSS. I've searched for more interesting CSS style properties and found another: INPUT placeholder styling. Let me show you how to style placeholder text within INPUTelements with some unique CSS code. The CSS Firefox...

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    Generate Dojo GFX Drawings from SVG Files

    One of the most awesome parts of the Dojo / Dijit / DojoX family is the amazing GFX library.  GFX lives within the dojox.gfx namespace and provides the foundation of Dojo's charting, drawing, and sketch libraries.  GFX allows you to create vector graphics (SVG, VML...

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    Thoughts on Code Commenting

    One of the "behind the scenes" ways of organizing your code and making it maintainable is code commenting.  Whether you're coding in Java, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or any language for that matter, code commenting plays an important role in making your development life easy.  I thought...

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    Search Engine Friendly URLs with .htaccess and mod_rewrite

    I was recently developing a PHP website that used mod_rewrite to make its URLs search engine friendly. Websites have been using mod_rewrite and .htaccess strategies to do this for years now and there are a 100 ways to accomplish the task. One issue that...

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    Integrity: Link Checker for Mac

    I usually don't post about desktop applications because, quite frankly, I make my living creating awesome web apps.  I did, however, recently stumble upon a free utility which searches for broken links within a website.  That utility is the awesome Integrity application for Snow Leopard. Integrity is...

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    An Interview with jsFiddle Creator Piotr Zalewa

    One of the great code sharing tools was pastebin. It was simple and straight-forward but quickly grew out of its usefulness. That's where jsFiddle comes in. jsFiddle is a fresh tool that not only displays the code and highlights it but also executes...

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    Creating Dojo Widgets Programmatically or Declaratively

    The Dojo Toolkit has an awesome UI framework called Dijit.  Dijit is an expansive set of Dojo widget that allow you to create highly themeable, functional forms, layouts, and much more.  One of the highlights of Dijit, from a developer's perspective, is that you may create...

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    Object Indexing vs. Array Collection

    The Setup & Goal Let's say that we have one large text document and we have a a bunch of keywords that we want to parse the document for.  We don't care how many times times the keyword appears -- we just care that it's been used.