Some significant updates this week with Cordova and React. Also, new projects including GSS, INIT, DozerJS seem interesting (though GSS site admittedly made figuring out what it was exactly a little tough for me without digging). Cordova 3.4.0 was released and Steve Gill lists out all of the changes by platform and tool.Apache Cordova 3.4.0 […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 17, 2014
There’s certainly no shortage of great articles and tutorials this week. Sorry for the delay but I was attending and speaking at DevNexus in Atlanta this week. Some highlights below include a look at a new build tool called Fez and building an HTML5 version of Flappy Bird. Enjoy! Tutorials Thomas Palef shares his experience […]
Using Grunt? Consider Fez
By Isaac Wagner In the world of JavaScript tooling, Grunt is king. Grunt is a task runner, meaning that a build is defined as a series of tasks which run one after another. Tasks may include file concatenation, application deployment, source linting, etc. Grunt isn’t unique as a task runner - you may have heard […]
Tips for Getting Started with HTML5 Game Development
By Thomas Palef As a developer and a gamer I always wanted to make games, but I never actually did. In order to change that I threw myself a public challenge: build a new game every week in HTML5. I now have 8 finished games on my website, lessmilk.com, and I plan to keep going […]
4 Ways to Improve Security for Web Designers
By Elizabeth Phillips Anyone who sits at a computer for hours should know how potentially dangerous that can be. Your digital life carries tons of information and clues about your personal life; identity and data theft are always a threat. Hackers wait for us to make a mistake or leave a workstation unattended. With good […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of February 10, 2014
This week features nine brand new libraries and projects including a command line tool for generating screenshots in a variety of resolutions and a tool to convert Scala code to JavaScript. Ben Smith wrote a library to implement the pipes and filters pattern in JavaScript for better async handling in Node. Pipes and Filters to […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 10, 2014
This week featured a heavy dose of tutorials covering various libraries and frameworks. Some highlights for me were Xuanyi Chew’s post going in depth into how JavaScript’s use of floating points affects its ability to process complex math problems and Mark McDonnell on creating Node CLI tools (a favorite topic of mine for some reason). […]
What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About Floating Points
By Xuanyi Chew At some point in a JavaScript developer’s career, she will come across strange bugs - basic mathematics that do not seem to make sense. And at some point or another, she will be told that numbers in JavaScript are actually floating points. Any attempts to understand floating points or why they act […]
CSS for Beginners with Dreamweaver
By Brian Rinaldi Dreamweaver has had a long history. I recall using it heavily back in the UltraDev days, for those of you that remember that. While the tool has evolved quite a lot over the years, it remains a powerful web development IDE. Sure, everyone seems to love a lightweight code editor nowadays for […]
Introduction to the Component JavaScript Package Manager
By Toby Ho Component is a front-end JavaScript package manager developed by the prolific Tj Holowaychuk. It embodies the philosophy of small modules and is designed to manage assets as well as JavaScript. Currently, there exist over 1600 “components”. Although there are more popular JS package managers than Component, I chose to cover it because […]