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    13 Factors to Consider While Choosing a JavaScript Charting Library

    Before starting your search for a charting library, you need to know that creating good data visualization (dataviz) is a huge time investment if you are planning to build a serious application. Having clear answers to questions like what exactly your dataviz is going to achieve...

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    Remove Multiple New Lines with JavaScript

    I'm blessed in that lots of people want to guest post on this blog.  It's really flattering and I love seeing writers get a bunch of attention after writing.  My task is converting the blog post, in whatever format it's provided in (HTML, Markdown, PDF, Google Doc...

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    Get and Set HTML5 Video Current Time

    Last week I explored how you could get the duration of a HTML5 video.  It's an important technique, obviously, but one that may be a bit more important is managing the video's time setting.  Both setting and getting the video's time is important when creating a chrome...

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    Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us

    Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...

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    Get HTML5 Video Duration

    HTML5 video is exciting, if only for the reason that we no longer need Flash or other third party plugins to render media.  We can also create custom controls and displays around the video, and one of those displays should be the duration of the video.  Let me...

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    Web Notifications API

    Every UI framework has the same set of widgets which have become almost essential to modern sites: modals, tooltips, button varieties, and notifications.  One problem I find is each site having their own widget colors, styles, and more -- users don't get a consistent experience.  Apparently the...

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    Indent JSON with JavaScript

    Working with XML and JavaScript is a nightmare, which is why JSON has become gold in the development community.  Hell, I even wrote a function to turn XML to JSON with JavaScript.  If you want to turn an existing object into well formatted JSON, you can you JSON.stringify(obj), but...

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    Add HTML Elements to XUL Addons

    I've been working on a new addon at Mozilla which isn't anywhere near finished so I wont bother telling you what it's meant to do...because it could change at any moment.  Since this is my first real addon, it's been a struggle, but that's a good...

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    Watch Files and Directories with Node.js

    Watching a file or directory for changes is an important part of automation.  We all enjoy using our favorite CSS preprocessor's "watch" feature -- we can still refresh the page and see our changes as though we were simply writing in pure CSS.  Node.js makes both file...

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    Sync Gulp Tasks with run-sequence

    gulp.js is an awesome utility for so many things.  I've recently started using gulp as a build tool for the next blog redesign, whenever that may come.  In the past I had written my own build scripts but they quickly got messy and I ran into...