A lot of great tutorials and releases this week - let me highlight a few? Do you know what monads are and why they are useful? Sean Voisen explains. Try to see the stereoscopic effect created with just CSS by Donovan Hutchinson (now try without getting a headache). Snap.svg is to SVG what jQuery is […]
Audio Synthesis in JavaScript
By Keith Peters Yes, you can create sound in JavaScript - at least, in some browsers. Supposedly, it works in Chrome 14, Firefox 23, Opera 15 and Safari 6 but not IE (Note: for this post, I’ve only tested in Chrome). So for now, playing with creating sound in JavaScript should be considered something experimental […]
Building a Blog with Jekyll
By Donovan Hutchinson There are many services that provide you with a blog. However, they get to store and make use of your content. For those of us that prefer to run our own sites and keep the content under our own control, setting up our own is a better option. In this article I’ll […]
A Gentle Introduction to Monads in JavaScript
By Sean Voisen Monads: they’re incredibly useful, and also a little intimidating. Beginner functional programmers often cringe when they hear the term. JavaScript legend Douglas Crockford once said that monads are cursed – that once you understand monads for yourself, you lose the ability to explain them to others. In the programming language F#, monads are called […]
Using Horizontal Design for Websites
By Nick Robson For quite a while, the idea of using a horizontal design for a website was considered a major taboo of web design. However, over the last couple of years horizontal design has seen a surge in popularity, often being used to create a fresh, vogue feel for a website that wants to […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of October 14, 2013
This week check out the details on Ghost and how to get started, the beta preview of caniuse.com with new features, a great discussion on some of the ways flat UI’s fail and much more. Tutorials See how to generate vertex data for CSS transformed elements and use the data to shade elements using a […]
Ghost - Just a Blogging Platform
By Eric Terpstra Ghost is a new open source blogging platform dedicated solely to dead-simple publishing. It’s goal it to let writers write, and have fun doing it. No crazy hierarchy of menus to wade through; no finicky WYSIWYG editor mangling HTML; nothing to worry about except creating delightful posts. According to the creators of […]
TypeScript 0.9 - What’s Improved
By Nicholas Wolverson I’ve been noodling around with Typescript for a while and enjoying the various improvements over standard Javascript. Quite a bit of this comes from ES6 improvements which Typescript incorporates (and transforms to a sensible ES3 output) - for example real classes, and this-capturing lambda expressions that help avoid the number one kick-yourself […]
Tools for the Busy Web Developer
By Elizabeth Phillips Time is by far the most valuable asset for every serious web developer. Thankfully, there are a wealth of tools available for streamlining the development process, whether you’re building a simple landing page or a complex web application. In this article, I will share few tools that have helped me save time […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of October 7, 2013
A lot of news this week including some significant releases such as Backbone 1.1.0 and the initial release of the Ghost blogging platform written with Node.js and Express. Of course, if you’ve come to learn, we’ve got a ton of tutorials as well. Tutorials Array.prototype.reduce can be used to search for a particular element in […]
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