Monthly Archives: October 2013

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Ember Components - Reusable Building Blocks For Your Application

Ember Components - Reusable Building Blocks For Your Application

By Ryan Anklam Web components promise to bring reusability and encapsulation to the next version of JavaScript. The bad news is that their power is out of reach until mainstream browsers fully implement the ECMAScript 6 standards that make up web components. Fortunately for Ember.js developers, the power of web components can be leveraged today in […]

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JavaScript Configuration Object Pattern

By Cory House So you’re building a modern web app? That means you’re likely running a variety of client-side libraries and custom business logic in JavaScript. One of the first hurdles you run into is, “Hey, I need some data from the server injected in my JavaScript.” Some developers, when posed this problem, have an […]

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A Simple Visual Model for Promises

By Vittorio Zaccaria Promises are gaining ground as a programming construct for asynchronous systems such as web applications. In its simplest form, a promise represents the state of the result of some future computation. I was introduced recently to this construct when studying jQuery and AngularJS. In the beginning, I wasn’t able to wrap my head around it. While I understood […]

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Playing with CSS Regions in Edge Reflow

By Joan Lafferty Kids spend most of their awake hours just playing. This helps them to understand the world and figure out how things work. In fact, the picture above is of my son playing with paint and learning about colors. With Edge Reflow’s latest public release, we are giving you the opportunity to play, learn, […]

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Extending the Brackets Code Editor with JavaScript

By Alessandro Artoni As web developers, we have all tried many different tools, IDE’s and text editors to improve our daily workflow. Apart from the old-fashioned vim/emacs lover, many of us currently use either Sublime Text (with its great collection of plugins) or WebStorm. Both have great features, plugins and support but there’s a new player that I […]

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JavaScript Fundamentals

By Azat Mardanov If it’s not fun, it’s not JavaScript. And you can’t spell fundamentals without fun. Programming languages like BASIC, Python and C have a boring, machine-like nature that requires developers to write extra code that’s not directly related to the solution itself. Think about line numbers in BASIC or interfaces, classes and patterns […]

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A Draggable Mobile App Showcase

By Sara Soueidan Today I’d like to share with you an interactive and touch-optimized mobile app showcase concept for showcasing a mobile app screenshot (in this case, on Windows Phone). The screenshot will be draggable and swipable, and you’ll have a couple of extra options to view how the app would look like within a […]

Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of September 23, 2013

Lots of interesting stuff this week. I apologize for the lateness in getting this weekly update done but I am in Sofia, Bulgaria this week presenting at the DevReach conference. Enjoy! Tutorials Ryan Morr offers an alternative to JavaScript’s Try/Catch that offers better performance and is customizable. Rethinking JavaScript’s Try/Catch Derick Bailey explores how to […]

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