By Peter Keating Recently a really useful tool Zach Moazeni named CSSCSS received a great deal of attention. CSSCSS is a Ruby gem that parse CSS files and will detect selectors with duplicated rules. This tool is great for helping you reduce the size and complexity of stylesheets by removing duplication. This can help in […]
Building a Google Maps Application with Updating Markers
by Raymond Camden I’ve been a fan of the Google Map API for some time now. If you dig beyond the basic “Show a map of X” and really examine the API, it is incredibly powerful. Recently, someone asked me an interesting question about Google Maps. Is it possible to use Google Maps to track […]
Creating Windows-8-like 3D animations with CSS3 and jQuery
by Sara Soueidan I’ve been using Windows 8 for a while now (and loving it), and one of the first things that struck me as impressive about it were the transitions and animations built into the dashboard (which uses the Metro design principles). I thought it would be a really fun experiment to try to […]
How to create an advanced HTML5 placeholder polyfill
By Aurelio De Rosa Some new HTML5 features are bigger than others but even some of the small one can be incredibly important and useful. One of these shiny features is an attributes called placeholder which allows you to specify placeholder text inside form’s elements like <input> and <textarea>. Unfortunately, older browsers don’t support the […]
Backbone Model Unit Testing with Jasmine
By Ken Tabor Writing reliable JavaScript code at scale is difficult. The language lacks built-in formal structures that enable reliable engineering practices. Fortunately establishing conventions and selecting mature libraries can go a long way towards building a trustworthy application architecture. Furthermore, writing unit tests can give us confidence in our applications. In this article I’ll […]
Developing for Windows Phone 8 in Apache Cordova
by Jesse MacFadyen There’s a new device in town. It is getting some attention as the design maverick, and it’s owners are a passionate bunch. Microsoft has stepped up their commitment to the Windows Phone platform with Windows Phone 8. Having received numerous accolades for defining their own path, instead of following the crowd, Windows […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Setup
by Brian Rinaldi PhoneGap makes it easy to take your front-end development skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and translate that into developing cross-platform mobile applications. However, PhoneGap Build makes this even more accessible by simplifying the process creating builds for multiple platforms and installing those builds on your test devices. PhoneGap Build is a […]
Teaching Programming - A Call to Action
by Jen Looper Recently, a video featuring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech luminaries circulated in social media. Its message was simple: schools aren’t teaching programming and something needs to be done about it. According to Code.org, the site that sponsored the video, while there is a shortage of computer programmers to fill open […]
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