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

Allen Coin04/28/13
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Video: Typescrit: JavaScript development at scale

TypeScript is a new programming language aiming to improve the development experience of writing and maintaining application-scale JavaScript programs. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, adding optional static typing to improve the tooling experience, as well as EcmaScript 6 style classes and modules to help organize large programs

Allen Coin04/28/13
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Video: Testing Online Crazy Glue: Strategies for building testable PHP applications

"I've been teaching programming for a few years now, and I've come to realize that the harder a languages is to teach, the more poorly designed it is."

Oscar Berg04/28/13
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Is the Office Really the Best Place to Get Work Done?

Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a signal of desperation and reveals that Yahoo's management is incapable of dealing with flexible working.

Eric Gregory04/28/13
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Hello Maps: A Five Minute iOS App with the Google Maps SDK

In this short and sweet tutorial, Google's Mano Marks shows you how to build a simple "Hello Maps!" starter app for iOS, using the Google Maps SDK.

Paul Underwood04/27/13
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CSS Beautifier

Here is a tool called CSS Beautifier which will allow you to enter minimized CSS and it will convert this into readable CSS for you. So if you only have the minimized file you can copy this into the tool and it will convert the entire contents to readable CSS.

Allen Coin04/27/13
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jQuery Combinators

jQuery’s famous “fluent programming” style is built on the ideas of combinatorial logic. In this session, we’ll explore some combinatorial logic and see how to apply it to making jQuery programs easier to read and write.

Rob Allen04/27/13
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Simple logging of ZF2 exceptions

I recently had a problem with a ZF2 based website where users were reporting seeing the error page displayed, but I couldn't reproduce in testing. To find this problem I decided to log every exception to a file so I could then go back and work out what was happening.

Rob Allen04/27/13
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Adding Diff Syntax Highlighting to Sublime Text

My chosen color scheme for Sublime Text doesn't include support for diff/patch files, so I added my own.

Mikko Ohtamaa04/27/13
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Debug SMTP Server One-Liner

If you are doing web development there is often a need to emulate and intercept outgoing email. Email delivery is handled by SMTP protocol. Production and staging server have fixed SMTP servers available in their network. However, this is not often the case for your development laptop, especially if you tend to do development in different networks.

Senthamizh Chel...04/26/13
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Handlebars.js in a Nutshell

Handlebars.js is a logic-less semantic web template framework. The 3 main parts of Handlebars are Handlebars template, data/context in JSON format and Handlebars compile function.

Matt Raible04/26/13
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My Bootstrap Presentation from HTML5 Denver

Speaking at HTML5 Denver was a real treat. That speaking engagement was the other night and you can view my presentation here as an HTML5 app or on SlideShare.

Raymond Camden04/26/13
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Note about PhoneGap Build and Splash Screens

I'm currently working on my MAX Advanced PhoneGap Build presentation and ran into an interesting issue. Using a splash screen is rather easy via the PhoneGap Build config.xml file. To test this feature, I used Placekitten.com to quickly create an image sizes 320x480.

Allen Coin04/26/13
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Video: Chrome on Android: developing HTML5 Web applications

We will discuss pros and cons of implementing your application as a Web application vs. a native mobile application. The talk presents Open Web Platform / HTML5 features of Chrome on Android, as well as remote debugging capabilities.

Alexander Beletsky04/26/13
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Building Single Page Applications with Backbone.js and Express.js

This Saturday I was doing my first Backbone.js class. It went really fine, except one fact. I wanted to show the aspects of creating Single Pages Application running on Backbone. Started the application from scratch, we had to spend a lot of time writing some infrastructure code before we even jump to Backbone.

Allen Coin04/26/13
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Video: Web Performance

Speed is an essential for a great web experience but it often gets overlooked. We'll examine how speed affects the users' experience and cover some ways we can measure and analyse it.