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    Detecting CSS Animation Completion with JavaScript

    One fact of web development life in 2014 that's been difficult for me to admit is that the traditional JavaScript toolkit is mostly dead.  For years we relied on them for almost everything but now that JavaScript and CSS has caught up with what we need...

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    Retrieve Twitter and Facebook Counts with JSONP

    I've been annoyed that many popular APIs have moved to require authentication in order to retrieve information.  If I can browse a page and get said information, why can't I simply pull it with some simple code and skip the authentication bit?  I had thought that...

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    JavaScript FrameBuster Snippet

    Oftentimes you want to make sure your site isn't being IFRAME'd.  Sometimes it's for security reasons, other times it's so your site's content isn't being skimmed else, and other times it's...oh, who cares, you just want to do it.  Here's a short way to escape frames: Uglify...

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    Tweet For Code #2

    You don't need a thousand lines of code to make a big difference in any coding language.  Oftentimes it's quite the opposite:  a few tiny code snippets can do a world of good and accomplish big things.  I asked my Twitter followers to tweet to me their...

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    JavaScript Debounce Function

    One of the biggest mistakes I see when looking to optimize existing code is the absence of the debounce function.  If your web app uses JavaScript to accomplish taxing tasks, a debounce function is essential to ensuring a given task doesn't fire so often that it...

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    HTML5 Input Types Alternative

    As you may know, HTML5 has introduced several new input types: number, date, color, range, etc. The question is: should you start using these controls or not? As much as I want to say "Yes", I think they are not yet ready for any real life...

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    5 Ways that CSS and JavaScript Interact That You May Not Know About

    CSS and JavaScript:  the lines seemingly get blurred by each browser release.  They have always done a very different job but in the end they are both front-end technologies so they need do need to work closely.  We have our .js files and our .css, but...

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    Tweet For Code #1

    You don't need a thousand lines of code to make a big difference in any coding language.  Oftentimes it's quite the opposite:  a few tiny code snippets can do a world of good and accomplish big things.  I asked my Twitter followers to tweet to...

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    A CRUD JavaScript Class

    A couple of weeks ago, I started making a little to-do list app' in JavaScript, with history, localStorage and quite a couple of things in order to get better at JavaScript. After a couple of hours, I decided to externalize the storage in an...

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    Loading Scripts with jQuery

    JavaScript loaders are incredibly powerful and useful utilities.  I've even covered a few of them on this blog, like curljs and LABjs, and have used RequireJS and the Dojo loader on personal projects.  They're super powerful but can be overkill in some cases.  If...