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Prashant Khandelwal05/02/13
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Using the SkyDrive REST API

I have been using SkyDrive a lot for backup and sharing files and I also access SkyDrive from a web application I have built. But the code is pretty messy and needs revision. So I created a wrapper around the API.

Avi Yehuda05/02/13
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jQuery Deferred

Not too long ago I came across jQuery deferred (even though it was added already in JQuery 1.5) and I immediately liked it. I feel this feature brings the web application development a bit closer to the desktop development.

Giorgio Sironi05/01/13
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The Wheel: Symfony Stopwatch

It's impossible to predict performance and you need the right tooling to measure it. The Stopwatch Symfony Component is a userland object that lets you time critical section of code to get some data about their execution, even directly in the production environment.

Ted Neward05/01/13
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OSS is Not Focused on Customer Service

These people (vultures!) who take and take with no giving back, who are called “customers” in other companies, by the way, and who often have perfectly reasonable requests of the vendors from whom they get their software, because if they had time to build it themselves, they wouldn’t need to download your stuff.

Paul Underwood05/01/13
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Add Google+ Comments To Your Site

The difference that Google plus comments has over Facebook comments is a massive benefit of including all comments from Google plus on your page. This is not yet officially available to blogging platforms like WordPress, but that doesn't stop Web Developers coming up with a way of getting comments on your site.

Andrzej Krzywda05/01/13
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Video: Single Page Applications Fight

During the last wroc_love.rb conference we've organised a "fight" between 4 different approaches to Single Page Applications. Below is the video (0.5h) and a very short and simplified transcript from this event.

Derik Whittaker05/01/13
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Inheritance issue w/ Typescript (JavaScript) and MVC Bundling Ordering

Today I extended one of our classes to use inheritance via Typescript (love that). When I refreshed the page I received an error here:

Allen Coin05/01/13
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Video: Pure, Functional Javascript

"Are you comfortable passing functions around, returning them from other functions, and generally enjoy the pleasures of higher-order functions? Join in on a brief hour implementing ideas from functional programming in JavaScript."

Paul Hammant05/01/13
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When Agile Meets Angular and UX-led Development

UX-led development is where your User eXperience (UX) developers are active within a dev-team, pushing the experience, behaviors and interactions. Pushing in this context means rapid evolution of a working UI.

Mitch Pronschinske05/01/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 1)

Get some advice for dealing with burnout or if you find that you don't want to program anymore. Plus some important news about the JS spec "Promises" and a 17 year old girl who won a major hackathon.

Kin Lane05/01/13
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Who Are The Customers For Your Startup?

See the progression of events from beginning as a startup with an app to becoming a platform with an API and having developers as your customers.

Raymond Camden04/30/13
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Auto-escaping code blocks in Reveal.js

Warning - this falls into the "Cool, but may not be a good idea category." I'm a huge fan of the Reveal.js framework for HTML-based presentations and I've already posted a few of my utilities/tips/etc for making it work better (or at least better for me).

Derik Whittaker04/30/13
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Knockout Click binding and the ‘this’ context

When using Knockout JS wiring to the click binding is cake and simply just works. Or does it?

Paul Underwood04/30/13
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Display A List Of Authors On WordPress

If you want to create a page to display all the authors you have two options, you can create a new page template which will allow you to code the layout of the page to show all the authors. The other option is to create a shortcode where the user of the site can use this on a new page content to create a list of all the authors.

Catalin Red04/30/13
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Removing an element with the plain JavaScript remove() method

As you might know, the DOM does not supports removing an element directly. When removing an element with JavaScript, you must go to its parent first instead. This was always odd and not so straightforward.