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Henri Bergius04/14/13
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Writing reusable, multi-platform JavaScript with Component

I'm currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and component loading, the goal here is to reuse as much of the same code as possible between these two platforms.

Jim O' Neil04/14/13
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Construct 2 Starter Kits

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a great time building HTML5/JavaScript games for Windows 8 with Scirra’s Construct 2, and I’ve been using those experiences to run a bunch of workshops with high-school and college students across New England.

Gerard Gallant04/13/13
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HTML5 Web Workers – DZone Refcardz

I've recently had the privilege to work with DZone.com and write an article for their Refcardz series about HTML5 Web Workers.

Hirvesh Munogee04/13/13
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Intro.js - A JavaScript Library For Tour Guides For Websites

Intro.js is a JavaScript library for guided tours for your websites. It uses data attributes within your HTML to feed the library with the data needed to operate.

Ben Forta04/12/13
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PhoneGap 2.6 Released

Title says it all, PhoneGap 2.6 has been released. Here are some details.

Brian Lewis04/12/13
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Why I Chose Wordpress

WordPress currently powers about one out of every six websites on the internet. That is nearly 60 million sites and the number keeps increasing every day. I think it is fair to say “you can’t go wrong with choosing WordPress”.

Matt Raible04/12/13
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Responsive Design with CSS Media Queries

Making my new theme mobile-friendly has been on my todo list ever since last year's redesign. I also took the opportunity to 1) remove the geolocation lookup and associated sunset logic for theme selection and 2) change the default theme to the "light" one.

Alexander Beletsky04/12/13
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Baby steps to Backbone.js: Exploring collections. Part 2.

Backbone.js is event-driven framework. All Backbone entities are extended from Backbone.Event object

Vinitha Rajagopal04/12/13
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Checklist for web performance tuning

While addressing performance issue in any application, it’s important to note that performance tuning is to be done at various levels. Listed below are few points that help in improving the performance of a web application.

Daniel Doubrovkine04/12/13
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Grape vs. Poncho

There’re a number of excellent micro-frameworks to author RESTful APIs in Ruby. Let’s take a look at the newcomer, Poncho, from the Stripe team, brought up on the Grape mailing list. For those that don’t know me, I’m the maintainer of Grape and use it very heavily at Artsy. I’ll do my best not to be biased.

Steven Willmott04/12/13
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API Crafting Secrets: Into API2Cart

Part 2 of the interview with API2Cart, a universal key for e-commerce. For example, if you deliver repricing services you can integrate with platforms you work with via API2Cart, retrieve product prices, and process it with your software.

Mitch Pronschinske04/12/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/12)

A node v. php v. go benchmarking session and some cool CSS and Mac tools make up this link list. Plus GitHub turns 5 and we get a demo of quantum levitation.

jb j04/11/13
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Hacks and snippets to enhance the WordPress search engine

The WordPress built-in search engine is often cited as one of the weak points of the popular blogging platform. In this article, I have compiled several code snippets to make the WordPress search engine a lot better.

Allen Coin04/11/13
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Video: Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier

A Google engineer talks about the logistics of making a mobile site that renders in less than 1 second.

Victor Savkin04/11/13
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Using JavaScript to Rescue Legacy Rails Applications

Adding new functionality to a large legacy Rails application is often expensive, if possible. But what if instead of adding new behaviour to the Rails application we implemented it as a single-page application in JavaScript? In this article I will show a few useful techniques for doing that.