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    Preventing Bot Attacks on WordPress using No Captcha reCaptcha

    There are many different solutions to prevent bots from submitting web forms; one of the most popular solutions is reCaptcha. reCaptcha actually displays an image with some text in it and user has to enter the text to submit the form successfully. It was difficult for...

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    ES6 in io.js

    io.js - the famous Node.js fork recently put out their initial release touting the slogan "Bringing ES6 to the Node Community!". io.js got these features ahead of Node.js by aggressively following the latest versions of the V8 JavaScript engine. As an outsider looking in...

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    JavaScript Errors and How to Fix Them

    JavaScript can be a nightmare to debug: Some errors it gives can be very difficult to understand at first, and the line numbers given aren’t always helpful either. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a list where you could look to find out what they mean...

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    Website Builders that Don’t Suck

    I Never Pursue My Awesome Ideas I'm constantly struck with ideas for new web projects. Unfortunately, I rarely act on them because I have too little time and they're too much of a hassle to see through. At least ten times over the last two years, I started...

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    Write Simple, Elegant and Maintainable Media Queries with Sass

    I spent a few months experimenting with different approaches for writing simple, elegant and maintainable media queries with Sass. Each solution had something that I really liked, but I couldn't find one that covered everything I needed to do, so I ventured into creating my...

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    Is WebGL the Technology of the Future? What’s AexolGL?

    Many companies and people from the IT world claim that WebGL is the technology of future. Is this a correct statement? WebGL has many advantages, one of its biggest is that it is a technology that could revolutionise the gaming experience. With WebGL we can play...

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    Performance Cops and Janitors

    Performance improvements often begin as one person's voice within a company culture. You start to notice how other sites are making optimizations and improving their user experience through tweaks to perceived performance or total page load time. Then you start measuring how your competitors' sites...

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    For and against `let`

    In this post I'm going to examine the case for (and perhaps against?) one of the new features coming in JavaScript ES6: the let keyword. let enables a new form of scoping not previously accessible generally to JS developers: block scoping. Function Scope Let's briefly review the basics...

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    Write Better Media Queries with Sass

    Let's face facts: media queries can be a pain. They're difficult to write and they tend to get duplicated a lot. Sass includes a few helpful features that make media queries easier to work with. This article will show you these tricks and how you can...

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    Responsive Images: The Ultimate Guide

    Chances are that any Web designers using our Ghostlab browser testing app, which allows seamless testing across all devices simultaneously, will have worked with responsive design in some shape or form. And as today's websites and devices become ever more varied, a plethora of responsive images...