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Brian Rinaldi06/18/13
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Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS – Week of June 10, 2013

This was an insanely busy week with tons of tutorials and even a lot of newly released libraries. There’s a lot here to digest, but it is well worth it.

Paul Underwood06/18/13
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Get Current Plugin URL

During WordPress plugin development you will need to include any Javascript or CSS files used by plugin inside the plugin folder, this means that it can be used exactly the same way on any theme you have installed.

Andrzej Krzywda06/18/13
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Typical Rails bugs

As part of my research on improving Rails application, I noticed a pattern in the bugs that are quite characteristic to Rails in several applications.

Eric Genesky06/17/13
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Get DZone's Definitive Guide to Cloud Providers

Today, DZone Research released its Definitive Guide to Cloud Providers, which you can pick up for free here.

Raymond Camden06/17/13
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Have some Ramen with your ColdFusion

I needed to add email support to a Node.js project I'm building (javascriptcookbook.com - almost done - honest!). Once I found the name of the package I needed, I modified my package.json file.

Chris Smith06/17/13
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CoffeeScript in a Chrome DevTools Workspace

In case you didn't hear, Chrome DevTools Workspaces let you edit local CoffeeScript source files directly from your browser.

Paul Underwood06/17/13
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Create A Sharrre WordPress Plugin

In this tutorial I will go through how you can build a WordPress plugin that uses the sharrre plugin, I will also make this plugin available on Github so anyone who wants to use or improve on this plugin can do so freely.

Raymond Camden06/17/13
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More on my JavaScriptCookbook Node project

I used the excellent Nodemailer module to setup email support for my application. All I needed was the ability to send an email to myself and this worked fine. Here's a code snippet from my app.js showing this in action.

Robert Diana06/16/13
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Geek Reading June 14, 2013

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

Raymond Camden06/15/13
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Looking for ColdFusion support in Brackets?

Were you waiting to check out Brackets until ColdFusion support was available? Good news - Reto Aeberli has released an extension that provides basic support for ColdFusion.

Robert Diana06/15/13
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Geek Reading June 13, 2013

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

Raymond Camden06/14/13
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Using Errorception with PhoneGap

Errorception is a service that aggregates and reports on client-side errors on your web site. By placing a simple embed in your HTML code, all errors will be sent off to their service for your perusal.

Gary Sieling06/14/13
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Visualizing Pigments with D3.js

If you could identify the presence of specific pigments from a photograph, it might provide a crude filtering mechanism for images to help find images from a particular time period, locale, artist, or medium. To test this theory, I built a small visualization using D3.js to test it out.

Niels Matthijs06/14/13
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Order: Content vs. Sub-Navigation

When talking about HTML people often forget that it's not just semantics, it's also structure. And when talking about structure, people tend to forget it's not just wrapping stuff, it's also about logical order.

Andy Hawthorne06/14/13
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Introducing Jump Start Rails

I’ve written a book called “Jump Start Rails” that covers getting up and running with Rails 4.0. Here, I’ll give you an overview of what to expect from the book/course.

Paul Underwood06/13/13
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PHP Debug In Browser Console

When debugging in PHP there are a few techniques you can use, you could use something like Xdebug which will allow you to step through your code at run time and you can see exactly what the code is doing

Raymond Camden06/13/13
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Vote and Suggest Topics for the CF Summit

If you are interested in attending the CF Summit later this year, then please consider participating in the public Trello board: CF Session Ideas. You can add your own suggestions or cast votes for sessions you would like to attend.

Ben Forta06/13/13
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Geoff Dowd Shows Off Mighty And Napoleon

Geoff Dowd, Adobe XD's Design Lead, gave the Engadget folks a closer look at Projects Mighty and Napoleon which we debuted at MAX last month.

Raymond Camden06/13/13
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Edge Code CC and Edge Inspect Integration

This is something I demoed a bit quickly at MAX but I thought it would be nice to create a video to demonstrate it more fully. The next release of Edge Code will include support for Edge Inspect directly within the editor itself. Make sense? No? Then watch the video!

Gary Sieling06/12/13
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Functional Programming Patterns in Four Popular Javascript Libraries

I generally find discussions of design patterns a bit dry, but in testing new Javascript libraries, I’ve stumbled across some interesting tactics. Object oriented design patterns are typical not a perfect fit to Javascript, given it’s untyped nature.

Daniel Mohl06/12/13
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jQuery UI Drag and Drop with FunScript

If you've been keeping up with activity in the F# world, you have no doubt seen great strides in a number of areas such as expansion of support for F# on different platforms and an ever increasing number of libraries and frameworks. One of these libraries that I've been playing with of late is named FunScript.

Andrew Trice06/12/13
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PhoneGap Exploration – Realtime Hardware Communication

Recently I’ve undertaken some explorations with fellow evangeslit Kevin Hoyt, trying to determine how far we can push PhoneGap applications with devices and physical computing. Turns out, you can push things really far and now I’m delighted to share one of the experiments that we’ve been pursuing.

Gary Sieling06/12/13
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Parsing Javascript in Javascript

Closures are a language feature which allow the programmer to inject static variables into a function’s scope, without the use of method parameters. This is a powerful construct, as it lets you essentially create custom functions.

jb j06/11/13
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WordPress hacks and snippets to efficiently reduce spam

Spam is a nuisance and every blogger have to deal with it. As a WordPress user, I bet you already use Akismet, which is definitely a great way to reduce spam. But several other tricks can definitely help. Here are my favorite WordPress hacks and code snippets to reduce spam on your blog.

Andy Hawthorne06/11/13
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Setting Up CentOS 6.4 For Web Development

So, I decided to have a go at setting up CentOS for web development. Here’s the first part of how I got on.