By Brian Rinaldi Forgive me for the generalization, but, as developers, we love shiny new toys. Sure, you could say that about many people, but developers seem to suffer from the compulsion for the next big thing more than most. I was at an antique car show the other day and, while I didn’t take […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of September 2, 2013
A busy week of tutorials even despite the short week (the last update posted on Tuesday due to the holiday), mostly focused on using libraries or frameworks - many using Node. In fact, I think future updates may break out a specific Node section for tutorials. I spent late last week at the Blend Conference, […]
Mocking Server Dependencies in JavaScript and AngularJS
By Cliff Meyers Most Single Page Applications (SPA) written in HTML and JavaScript interact with server side code using the familar XMLHttpRequest object. During development it can be convenient to run the application with mock data that eliminates this server dependency. This can be useful if the server side stack is complex and not easy […]
Retro Game Music using Web Audio and Band.js
By Brian Rinaldi Being a proper geek, I have a (mostly) healthy love for video games and being old(ish), I have a strong streak of nostalgia. Thankfully, classic 8-bit games are are apparently back in style and even new games are aping the 8-bit style. Music plays a big role in the overall feel of […]
Creating Custom Filters in jQuery
By Aurelio De Rosa In some cases you may need a shortcut to collect elements for which jQuery doesn’t provide a specific filter. This is exactly where custom filters come into play. In this article, based on my book Instant jQuery Selectors, you’ll learn how to build a custom filter in jQuery. Please note that the example […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of August 26, 2013
This past week featured a lot of tutorials, with at least a couple focused on best practices in writing CSS which seems to be a hot topic. Significant project updates include Ember 1.0 and ChocolateChip-UI 3.0. Some important new projects include Theseus and parallax.js. Tutorials Alan Greenblatt enhances his responsive content with CSS regions demo […]
Node.js vs. PHP
By Azat Mardanov PHP is not going to disappear soon, but its position is being undermined even further by the nascent Node.js. When the Internet exploded in the 2000′s, PHP was the thing “all the cool kids” did. PHP caught on because: It was an interpreted language, unlike C++ or Java which require the source code compilation; […]
The Angular Way
By Nicolas Bevacqua For the past few months I’ve been sailing around the world of Angular. Today I can hardly imagine myself doing day to day coding on a large front-end web application without some kind of data binding framework, such as Angular.js,Backbone.js, and friends, and I can’t believe I’ve done so in the past. I might however be a […]
Getting a Head Start with Front End Generators
By Jonathan Fielding In this post we will talk about the different generators we can use to get started on our projects. There are many different generators/scaffolders available, and we will cover a few of the most popular and look at how we can use them in our projects. Initializr (www.initializr.com) Initializr was one of the […]
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