Brian Rinaldi06/04/13
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Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 27, 2013

Much of the community, it seems, was busy either at the Fluent or JSConf conferences this week, on opposite ends of the country. While that seems to have meant fewer tutorials, however, there were a number of significant new libraries and frameworks released this week.

Gonzalo Ayuso06/04/13
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Working with AngularJS and Silex as Resource provider

These days I’m playing with AngularJS. Today we are going to play with Resources. Resources are great when we need to use RestFull resources from the server. In this example we’re going to use Silex in the backend. Let’s start.

Allen Coin06/04/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (June 4)

Today: How to ease in novice developers, why one banker quit his job to learn programming, Mozilla and Foxconn team up for Firefox OS Devices. Plus: The first porn app for Google Glass (safe for work link).

Raymond Camden06/04/13
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Have a published PhoneGap app? Try the Windows Phone Porting Challenge

If you have published a PhoneGap application to any of the existing app stores (and if you haven't, then you really have need to get on it!) then you should consider taking Microsoft's Windows Phone Porting Challenge. Simply port your application and test it in the Windows Phone Emulator and then publish it to the Windows Phone Store by June 30th, 2013.

Alex Curylo06/03/13
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iOS Graphic Tweaks Grab-Bag

Check out this unbelievable list of tips and techniques for refining your iOS interface elegance today.

Alex Curylo06/03/13
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Review: Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner’s Guide

If you’ve been luxuriating in the joy of developing games iOS-centrically the last few years, it’s a pretty good bet you’ve been using cocos2d-iphone.

Tim Spann06/03/13
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Links du Jour

A curated list of links and tutorials for web and mobile development and much more!

Raymond Camden06/03/13
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PhoneGap Day 2013

Just sharing the news that another PhoneGap Day was announced - Friday, July 19th, in Portland, Oregon. I went last year and thought it was great. I definitely recommend it.

Ariya Hidayat06/03/13
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CSS Preload Scanner in WebKit

In WebKit world, preload scanner refers to a side parser which kicks in if the main HTML parser is halted by a blocking script loading. Now, what about speculatively loading dependent resources on a stylesheet instead of the main HTML file? Fortunately, WebKit has something called CSS Preload Scanner.

Prashant Khandelwal06/03/13
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HTML5 Video – Capture And Upload Image To Azure Storage

I was exploring Github for some image effects/filters and I found some but I kept exploring and found an interesting plugin called face-detection. This plugin uses HTML5 getUserMedia to use your web camera only if your browser supports it.

Konrad Garus06/02/13
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Client-Side Routing with Pedestal

It’s fairly common for rich web applications to use some kind of client-side routing: Load the application once, then navigate with special URLs. Browser doesn’t perform a round trip to server for them, but instead the right chunk of JavaScript can rebuild part of the page locally, hide and show elements etc.

Ariya Hidayat06/02/13
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ECMAScript 6 and Block Scope

Until today, JavaScript comes with a function-level scope for variables and functions. This quirk often trips beginners who are already familiar with other curly braces language. With ECMAScript 6, the situation will change with the availability of the well-understood block scope.

Ariya Hidayat06/02/13
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Automagic Removal of JavaScript Logging

When writing a large JavaScript application, it is quite often that console.log and other debugging statements are sprinkled here and there. There are many different ways to do this, there exists a new tool called groundskeeper which can do this removal for you.

Alex Curylo06/02/13
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iOS - AGImageChecker

Now this looks like a downright lifesaver for all those of you who oversee a framework that powers a dozen team apps and counting with several hundred individual skinned and themed images going into each …

Niels Matthijs06/01/13
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Classes and IDs: No CSS Exclusives

When reading about classes and IDs these days, you'd start believing that they were invented exclusively for CSS and JS targeting. While it's true that CSS and JS are the primary languages that make use of them, they are not the ones laying down the rules.