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Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors 20 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors: Smashing Magazine nails another one - obeying html tag semantics to avoid selectors like .button in favour of
Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 19 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6: A good overview of the stuff landing in ES6/Harmony, with some worked examples
How to fork and patch npm modules 12 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
How to fork and patch npm modules: I had to fork and patch a Node program last week as it was exhibiting some bad performance characteristics on Windows due to an unstable node FS feature (chokidar, ...
BBC - Blogs - Adam Curtis - A history of spying 9 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
BBC - Blogs - Adam Curtis - A history of spying: The recent revelations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden were fascinating. But they - and all the reactions to them - had one enormous assumption at...
Using Chrome devtools to ensure jank-free 60fps experiences 29 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
Using Chrome devtools to ensure jank-free 60fps experiences: Introduction to the frames panel in the Chrome Dev Tools, which shows slow-running script events that’ll bust your 16.67ms frame budget
How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background? 25 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?: Great compare-and-contrast between the jQuery ‘enhance stuff’ approach and the ground-up data and views that Angular provides
Async JS: The case for setImmediate 10 Jul 2013 | 03:23 pm
Async JS: The case for setImmediate: Dividing up complex work, especially rendering work, is best done in chunks so as not to block the JS thread. This has been historically done using setTimeout(fn,...
"Disable Javascript" option removed in latest Firefox 1 Jul 2013 | 03:40 pm
"Disable Javascript" option removed in latest Firefox: Shows how fundamental Javascript is in the modern web - a lot of sites simply won’t function without it enabled. Interesting trade-off between ...
Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API 5 Jun 2013 | 12:18 am
Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API: The above link, paired with apigee’s API design eBook has a whole load of mileage. Particularly interesting are the recommendations for version ...
The State Of Responsive Web Design | Smashing Magazine 3 Jun 2013 | 05:43 pm
The State Of Responsive Web Design | Smashing Magazine: Flexible layouts, adaptive typography, responsive design without having to create different versions of html
