By Alex Ivanovs You’ve probably heard a lot about Bootstrap. Put simply, it is a front-end framework that helps speed up and improve building functional websites.r. The original Bootstrap (also known as Twitter Bootstrap) was the project of two Twitter employees, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. Twitter Bootstrap is great, for developers. It allows us […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of February 3, 2014
This week features a new release of the popular Pixi.js 2D game development framework and a new release of the Brackets code editor with some important improvements. The Brackets Sprint 36 build includes improved file watchers and file caching and new project preferences customization options. Brackets Sprint 36 Build Creditly.js includes the HTML, CSS and […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 3, 2014
This was apparently the week to post your intro Gulp tutorials and no one told me - we have three for you to choose from. Other highlights include a post about promises by Matt Greer, great overviews about using Node Webkit by Ben Farrell, understanding ES6 generators by Matt Baker and a good look at […]
Build Desktop Apps with JavaScript and Node WebKit
By Ben Farrell I’m a big fan of platforms that enable me to experiment and do creative things. As someone who was big into Flash and tends to do mostly HTML/JS/CSS now, the main problem with both of these is that they are limited by the capability of the browser. If the browser allowed me […]
Replacing callbacks with ES6 Generators
By Matt Baker There are a lot of articles out there discussing the use of ES6 generators to remove the “callback pyramid” we so often encounter in JavaScript. Unfortunately, most of them rely on libraries, and few tell the whole story. In this article we’re going to go step-by-step. We’ll progressively modify a toy callback-based […]
Mobile App Development - Tips for Getting Noticed
By Jen Looper It’s no secret that the apps market in 2013-14 is rapidly maturing. It’s no longer possible to launch an app and watch, carefree, as the downloads and money roll in. Increasingly, the devil is in the details - all the little things you need to watch out for as you prepare your […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of January 27, 2014
This week included significant updates to Bootstrap and CoffeeScript. In addition, NodeJX, srcN-polyfill and extractCSS were new projects that seemed to garner a lot of attention. Bootstrap 3.1.0 was released and includes three new templates: Blog, Cover, and Dashboard. Bootstrap NodeJX is a fork of Node.js that supports multithreading. What is nodeJX? The srcN-polyfill is […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of January 27, 2014
There was a lot of content to choose from this week (and tough choices to be made). In the end, the list is still long but these articles are definitely worth the time. I wouldn’t say there was any particular themes coming through this week, just lots of great tutorials. Tutorials Learn how to get […]
How Kendo UI Uses Kendo UI To Build Angular Directives For Kendo UI
By Burke Holland When Telerik first launched the Kendo UI framework as a Beta in November of 2011, we knew that it was going to be very important for any UI widgets we built to integrate easily into other JavaScript frameworks. We saw that code was shifting to the client, and heavy code on the […]
Learning SVG
By Joseph Wegner In my book, SVG is classified as a mythical unicorn super technology. SVG shares this category with other technologies like RegExp, vim, and OpenGL. The common traits between each of these technologies is that they are incredibly useful when used correctly, but incredibly difficult to use correctly. All three pack some serious […]