Web Builder Zone | Web design, PHP, RIA, css, html, usability & some Ajax

David Pollak04/20/13
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Angular JS, Lift 3, and Streaming Promises

Angular JS is a very exciting UI package that makes building dynamic single-page applications a snap because there's a 2-way binding between the model and the UI so that changes in the model are correctly reflected in the UI.

Eric Gregory04/19/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (Apr. 19)

Today: Mozilla's pluggable collaboration tool, CISPA, homemade drones, a radical new CSS best practice, and Code Monkey Saves World.

Ben Forta04/19/13
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jQuery Mobile 1.3.1 Released

I completely missed this one last week (hey, MAX is just weeks away, that's my excuse!). jQuery Mobile 1.3.1 was released with about 50 fixes and improvements to the library.

Paul Underwood04/19/13
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Set Minimal Comment Limit In WordPress

You can use the filter preprocess_comment to check the comment before it is saved to the database. Within this filter you can check the character count of the comment by using the strlen() function.

Andrew Trice04/19/13
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Adding Dimensionality To An Edge Animate Composition

From Edge Animate you can export compositions into a .oam package, which can be imported directly into InDesign for use with a web content overlay.

Raymond Camden04/19/13
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ColdFusion and OAuth Part 3 - Google

For this demo I decided to get a bit fancier. Google has an OAuth API that lets you authenticate against their servers. What if you wanted to use Google for your user system?

Adrian Milne04/19/13
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CometD and Camel in the Enterprise - A Working Example

Using CometD - the Browser can use some javascript to subscribe to a CometD channel, keeping a long running connection open - and the endpoint of that channel can push data down directly to all its subscribers. Handily, Apache Camel comes with a CometD plugin that can handle all this on the server side for us.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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jqMobi Becomes Intel App Framework

Today Intel has launched its revamp of the jqMobi framework as the "Intel App Framework". The new HTML5 development environment is completely free to download and is focused on giving mobile developers a bunch of tools to quickly build web apps.

Maximiliano Firtman04/18/13
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Developing for Google Glass: Mirror API, HTML5 and how to change your mind

Google Glass is around the corner it’s time to prepare our services for this new device type. Reading the specs for the first time can be a little overwhelming; therefore I’ll try to make a quick go through the Glass app development process, the mirror API and its HTML5 support.

Paul Underwood04/18/13
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Preview Live Regex

Regular expressions are a great way to find a pattern of text to do a global replace or to store the variables of the pattern. The problem comes when you have quite a complicated pattern that you are trying to match.

Troy Hunt04/18/13
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The beginners guide to breaking website security with nothing more than a Pineapple

This, quite clearly, is a Pineapple. But it’s not just any pineapple, it’s a Wi-Fi Pineapple and it has some very impressive party tricks that will help the naysayers understand the real risk of insufficient transport layer protection in web applications which, hopefully, will ultimately help them build safer sites.

Andy Hawthorne04/18/13
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CodeIgniter and Twitter Bootstrap

CodeIgniter and Twitter Bootstrap work well together. Especially if we add a layout library from the CodeIgniter Sparks repository. I’ll cover creating a simple web app using Twitter bootstrap and CodeIgniter Sparks.

Raymond Camden04/18/13
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Proof of Concept - Connecting a Node app with Brackets

If you read my blog you know I've been playing a bit with Node.js lately. I've yet to deploy any "real" web site/app using Node, but I've built a few applications and demos as a way to help learn the platform.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/17)

Computer dinosaurs still walk the earth. This story, plus a cool Mac Terminal easter egg, a prominent game written in QBASIC, and a Python heart monitor that only needs a webcam.

Giorgio Sironi04/17/13
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PHPUnit vs. Phake cheatsheet

I like tools that do one thing and do it well, and after experimenting with Phake I'm using it on all new code. I am preparing this cheatsheet for my colleagues at Onebip so that they can start using Phake immediately instead of digging through documentation.