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    WordPress JSON API Plugin

    Ever since I moved to a mostly-JavaScript job, I've become more and more enamored with the simplicity and usefulness of JSON.  Now I want everything available in JSON format, and when I encounter a service which doesn't provide a JSON API, I have a...

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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.

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    The Beauty of dojo.require()

    I've been working full time with Dojo for the past four months and one of my favorite parts of the toolkit is the dojo.require system.  The dojo.require system allows you to asynchronously request Dojo modules within the current page without needing to adjust your core Dojo...

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    Implement the Google AJAX Search API

    Let's be honest...WordPress' search functionality isn't great. Let's be more honest...no search functionality is better than Google's. Luckily for us, Google provides an awesome method by which we can use their search for our own site: the Google AJAX Search API.

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    Multiple File Upload Input

    More often than not, I find myself wanting to upload more than one file at a time.  Having to use multiple "file" INPUT elements is annoying, slow, and inefficient.  And if I hate them, I can't imagine how annoyed my users would be.  Luckily Safari, Chrome...

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    Using SCRIPT’s defer Attribute

    One of the seldom used attributes within the HTML tag library is the defer attribute on SCRIPT elements.  As you can probably tell by the name of the attribute, defer instructs the contents of the script tag to not execute until the page has loaded.  Take...

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    HTML5 classList API

    Having thrust myself into the world of JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries, I've often wondered: When are browser vendors going to see the helper methods/libraries created by the JavaScript toolkits and implement these functionalities natively within the browser? I realize that standards are important and browser...

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    Google Font API

    Google recently debuted a new web service called the Font API.  Google's Font API provides developers a means by which they may quickly and painlessly add custom fonts to their website.  Let's take a quick look at the ways by which the Google Font...

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    Using HTML5 Web Storage

    HTML5 is the biggest buzz word in web development today.  The new features promised by HTML5 will be a huge boost to web developers looking to stop rigging up ways to make their websites better, faster, and more flexible.  One feature that's caught my eye is...

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    dojo.connect: A Powerful Object and Event Listener

    One of the pieces of the Dojo Toolkit I've been really impressed with is dojo.connect. This connect method not only listens to DOM events but also allows you to listen to when a regular function is executed. Lets examine what dojo.connect is and the...