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Mitch Pronschinske10/17/11
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An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks

CSS is a versatile style language that is most frequently used to control the look and formatting of an HTML document based on information in the document tree. But there are some common publishing effects – such as formatting the first line of a paragraph...

Mitch Pronschinske10/12/11
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Lean Startup Gaining Traction

David J. Bland, author of the Scrumology blog and a freelance counterterrorism software developer, talks to DZone at the Agile 2011 conference about one...

Mitch Pronschinske10/05/11
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HTML5 Zone - A Dojo for Web Ninjas

The Web as a platform is changing faster every day—blink, and you're behind. Just look at the version numbers of browsers lately. This year we started with IE9, Chrome 8, and Firefox 4. Next year, we could see IE11, Chrome 20, and Firefox 12. The...

Mitch Pronschinske10/05/11
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Choosing Canvas or SVG

With a lot of excitement around Canvas, there has been a tendency to ignore SVG, which, in many cases, is the better choice. URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/how-choose-between-canvas-and ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/05/11
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DZone Launches NEW HTML5 Zone!

The HTML5 Zone is a new subtopic-focused "Microzone" that will follow the HTML5 standard, along with CSS3, ECMAScript, and other emerging web standards through blogs, tutorials, videos and news. The daily stream of content there will keep you...

Mitch Pronschinske09/21/11
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In the Wake of Win8 Bombshell, Adobe Boasts Flash 11's Graphics are 1000x Faster

In a quick move to assure the public of Flash's continuing relevance in web and desktop development, Adobe revealed the coming features in their next version of Flash Player and AIR. Hoping to 'wow' their loyal Flash-game developers, Adobe has been revving...

Mitch Pronschinske09/21/11
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WebMatrix 2 Beta Adds PHP IntelliSense

WebMatrix has made a name for itself by massively simplifying and accelerating the construction of a relatively complex web site—specifically the CMS, widgets, web server, and back-end stack.

Mitch Pronschinske09/19/11
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Why Your JavaScript Developed in Firefox Might Fail in IE

It's so nice to find concise guides on frustrating web development issues that are commonplace, but not well documented or easy to find. Today I found an answer on SO about developing JavaScript across Firefox and IE that could be so useful to lots of...

Mitch Pronschinske09/16/11
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Check Out the New Apache Solr 3.4 Programmer’s Guide!

A new programmer's guide to Solr, The Programmer’s Guide to Open Source Search Search: What’s New in Apache Solr / Lucene 3.4, is now available courtesy of Lucid Imagination!

Mitch Pronschinske09/15/11
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Big News Coming Out of BUILD - Wayne Citrin Comments

"Flash is dead" is what some in the web developer community are saying after Microsoft's announcement that the all-web-standard "Metro" version of Windows 8 would not include plugins in its IE10 browser, which means no Flash. What they...

Mitch Pronschinske09/15/11
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Free Book Chapter: Creating a User Account in Rails

Manning has provided a free chapter (Chapter 14) of Rails 3 in Action. This book was written by Ruby community leader Yehuda Katz and Ryan A. Bigg. This chapter shows you part of the process of deploying a Rails application to a new Ubuntu...

Mitch Pronschinske09/13/11
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Douglas Crockford Answers DZone's Questions on JavaScript

CoffeeScript, node.js, ECMAScript, and even Google's new Dart usurper language were topics of discussion last week when I had the unique opportunity to meet one of the major luminaries in the world of JavaScript while he was speaking at North Carolina State...

Mitch Pronschinske09/12/11
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What primary development framework are you planning to use in the cloud?

This PaaS poll was inspired by a post on Chris Keene's blog. He explained that RedHat had conducted a survey at VMworld that included over 1,200 respondents. The survey was about their cloud deployment plans and I...

Mitch Pronschinske08/31/11
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Robots Have Taken James Gosling Away From Google

Well that didn't last very long. For just 5 months, Google employed the renowned Father of Java. Now developers can forget about seeing anything amazing and wonderful emerging from the Google-Gosling team-up. In his latest blog post, Gosling writes that...

Mitch Pronschinske08/25/11
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Apple Won't Change Overnight, But it Will Eventually Change

While Apple's stock dropped 7% overnight with the announcement of Steve Jobs' departure from the CEO position, Apple's corporate culture and direction certainly won't change overnight. In fact, you may have noticed that Tim Cook has been in the CEO position...