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

Raymond Camden05/16/13
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JavaScript Design Patterns - The Revealing Module Pattern

As a reminder, the idea behind this series is to create real, practical examples of various JavaScript design patterns based on the book, "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns" by Addy Osmani. (See my review here.) In this blog entry I'll be discussing the Revealing Module pattern.

Dmitry Sheiko05/16/13
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Importing External Files in JavaScript

As a JavaScript application grows, navigation on the code becomes hellish. It comes to mind how useful it would be to have the ability to include JavaScript files.

Paul Underwood05/16/13
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CSS Flip Boards

In this tutorial we are going to create a flip board effect by using CSS, there are 2 effects we can create one the hover event we are going to have one board flip on the horizontal and another board which will flip on the vertical.

Allen Coin05/16/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 16)

Today: A full-text client-side search in CSS3, Georgia Tech's online MS in Computer Science for $7,000, 3 new APIs for Android announced at Google I/O, and a Klingon translator!

Giorgio Sironi05/15/13
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Cloning in PHP

Cloning is an operation consisting in the duplication of a data structure, usually to avoid the aliasing problem of having different code modify the same instance in inconsistent ways. In PHP, cloning can be accomplished in multiple ways - and in some cases it can be avoided altogether.

Niels Matthijs05/15/13
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The Breadcrumb: Where does it belong?

Once a novel concept, the breadcrumb has become one of the strongholds of just about every content-heavy website's interface out there. When you consider its place in the html though, it's a somewhat unusual component.

Remy Sharp05/15/13
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tracegl for JavaScript debugging

In preparing for my new Node workshop my tool of choice used to be node-inspector but development has gone idle and it’s showing it’s age. However, recently I came across tracegl I was intrigued as it looked to add to my debugging tools for Node.

Derik Whittaker05/15/13
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Typescript Bundler Issue - Not transforming to JavaScript

Today one of the viewers of my Pluralsight course was having issues and I was trying to help him via email, but to no avail. I asked him to send me his project so I could take a look myself.

jb j05/15/13
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CSS and JavaScript tools to take your website to the next level

Want to enhance your website with the latest tools available? In this article, I have compiled a bunch of super useful tools to enhance your website and take it to the next level.

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (5/15)

Today: The Universal Bytecode, an old math problem solved, the sound of sorting (algorithms), and a solution for automating development environments. Plus: the long history of selfish generations.

Mikael Koskinen05/15/13
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Latest Twitter Bootstrap broken in Windows Phone

Unfortunately the latest Twitter Bootstrap is broken with Windows Phone: The responsive layout doesn’t work. Rolling back to 2.2.1 fixed the issue.

Abby Fichtner05/15/13
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Who Are You Imitating?

And so now, as I’m wondering what my next “big thing” will be (no pressure, Abbs) – I also wonder who might be next. Am I exposing myself to enough awesome to let me grow or am I getting too comfortable with who and what I know today?

Allen Coin05/14/13
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Making scrolling less confusing

Scrolling through a long text on a featureless background is confusing. Notice that on a mobile device, this problem does not exist, at least not nearly to the same degree. Using that basic concept as a model, I’ve put together a quick prototype.

Brian Rinaldi05/14/13
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Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 6, 2013

While there were a lot of great tutorials and new projects, as expected, this week, only one new project has the ability to thoroughly transform a common interaction with the browser and web pages. This project, of course, is fartscroll.js by the Onion. Enoy!

Derik Whittaker05/14/13
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TypeScript references not being created correctly during drag-n-drop

One of the viewers of my Html for the XAML developer course over on Pluralsight sent me a question regarding the ability to drag and drop a d.ts file onto a TypeScript file and have the reference added correctly.