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Automating CSSCSS using Grunt

Automating CSSCSS using Grunt

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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4 reasons you should create a WordPress theme

by Aurelio De Rosa WordPress is one of the most talked publishing platforms on the internet. It has caught the interest of a lot of users and developers, and not just because it has been around for a long time (it was first released in 2003). One of the reasons WordPress has become so popular […]

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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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