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Mitch Pronschinske05/23/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

It's time to make Java debugging suck less, and it's also time to start pronouncing "GIF" "jif". Plus, some crucial employability tips and the real difference between "web" and "enterprise" developers.

Sagar H Ganatra05/24/13
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WebRTC experiment - Recognizing hand gestures

I have created a web application that recognizes hand gestures using WebRTC's getUserMedia API. Here's how it works...

Raymond Camden05/24/13
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The Future of the Web

I know, I know. The title sounds like SEO-link-bait, I apologize. I want to talk about something that I'm fairly excited about, and I hope it excites you as well.

Chris Smith05/24/13
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Responsive Principles At the Heart of Our Design

When approaching the task of creating a new standard theme for AnswerHub we wanted to make sure we got one thing right -- Responsive Design. We wanted to provide a consistent experience for users throughout the platform, regardless of the device they're using.

Brian Swartzfager05/24/13
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Follow Up Post: Hiding All But The Current Bootstrap Popover

Last year around this same time, I published a blog post about a technique I developed for creating multiple Twitter Bootstrap popovers. A commenter on the original post asked how he could use my technique but ensure that only one popover was open at any given time.

Raymond Camden05/23/13
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Infinite Scroll Example with ColdFusion

A few weeks ago a reader asked if I had an example of infinite scroll with a ColdFusion back end. I replied that I did not, and that infinite scroll was the worst thing to happen to the Internet since the rainbow horizontal rule.

Yusuf Aytaş05/23/13
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Dependency Injection in JavaScript

Following recent developments, we will present what dependency injection is, its advantages and simple implementation of this pattern in JavaScript.

Paul Underwood05/23/13
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Create An Animated CSS Box Menu

In this tutorial were going to play with CSS transitions to create a new style navigation menu. The effect we are aiming for is having a number of navigation boxes, and when the mouse hovers over a box this will grow and shrink the other boxes.

Lorna Mitchell05/23/13
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Simplest PHP Generator Example

I really like the generators feature that's arriving in PHP 5.5, and since we're now into release candidate releases, it's actually not that far away.

Giorgio Sironi05/22/13
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A simple strategy for dotfiles

Simple as in Simple Object Access Protocol. Dotfiles such as .vimrc and .bashrc are at the core of configuring a Unix system. They are usually places in the home folder of a user and, if present, are read by various tools such as the shell and Vim.

Allen Coin05/22/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 22)

Today: Memcached 10 years later, JS struggles, why can't testers and developers get along?; Neil deGrasse Tyson settles the Star Trek vs. Star Wars debate, and how to boost your eBook revenue.

Ben Forta05/22/13
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Raymond Camden On JavaScript Design Patterns

Raymond Camden has been digging into JavaScript design patterns. His latest post in the serires is a great disucssion of The Revealing Module Pattern.

David Catuhe05/22/13
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Benchmarking a HTML5 game: HTML5 Potatoes Gaming Bench

This article used a benchmark framework called “HTML5 Potatoes Gaming Bench” to obtain a consistent scoring for various sprites tests. I will try to explain you how we built this framework and the decision we made to make it representative of the effective performance of the tested hardware and browser.

Christopher Bennage05/22/13
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A Couple of JavaScript Questions

A friend was reviewing the last post and he asked two questions about a JavaScript snippet. (1) Why am I initializing entityIndex outside the loop? (2) Why do I compare entityIndex to 0?