Arguably few jobs require more repetitive tasks than programming. Undoubtedly, few people hate redundant tasks more than programmers. A programmer typically would be willing to spend as much or even potentially more time automating a redundant task than actually doing it. Thankfully, this can lead to a number of useful tools for automation. Popular ones […]
Zelda: A Link to the CSS
By Donovan Hutchinson This week, Nintendo announced a new release of the popular Zelda franchise coming soon for the Nintendo 3DS that will be set in the world of A Link to the Past. As many of you may recall, the original Zelda: A Link to the Past game that was released in the early […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build – Using the Notification API
By Brian Rinaldi This is the 7th and final part in the series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here, part 5 here and part 6 here. The files for the sample app are available here. In this final step, we will add a finishing touch to our application and use another PhoneGap API […]
jQuery 2.0 Released
The updated jQuery is smaller and faster but in exchange it leaves behind support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. For full details, check the announcement.
Automating CSSCSS using Grunt
By Peter Keating Recently a really useful tool Zach Moazeni named CSSCSS received a great deal of attention. CSSCSS is a Ruby gem that parse CSS files and will detect selectors with duplicated rules. This tool is great for helping you reduce the size and complexity of stylesheets by removing duplication. This can help in […]
Building a Google Maps Application with Updating Markers
by Raymond Camden I’ve been a fan of the Google Map API for some time now. If you dig beyond the basic “Show a map of X” and really examine the API, it is incredibly powerful. Recently, someone asked me an interesting question about Google Maps. Is it possible to use Google Maps to track […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Using the Storage API
By Brian Rinaldi This is part 6 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here and part 5 here. The files for the sample app are available here. Even though our app is now looking and feeling more like an app, the truth is that everything up to this […]
Creating Windows-8-like 3D animations with CSS3 and jQuery
by Sara Soueidan I’ve been using Windows 8 for a while now (and loving it), and one of the first things that struck me as impressive about it were the transitions and animations built into the dashboard (which uses the Metro design principles). I thought it would be a really fun experiment to try to […]
How to create an advanced HTML5 placeholder polyfill
By Aurelio De Rosa Some new HTML5 features are bigger than others but even some of the small one can be incredibly important and useful. One of these shiny features is an attributes called placeholder which allows you to specify placeholder text inside form’s elements like <input> and <textarea>. Unfortunately, older browsers don’t support the […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Adding Pages with jQuery Mobile
By Brian Rinaldi This is part 5 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here. The files for the sample app are available here. We’ve made our app look and feel more like an app, but our list items, when clicked, simply open up the project web […]
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