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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.

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.

Raymond Camden06/11/13
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New Project: JavaScript Cookbook

After traveling the last couple of weeks I've got a little break now between conferences and I thought it would be cool to spend some free time on a little project. A few weeks back I purchased javascriptcookbook.com (still can't believe that was available).

Ariya Hidayat06/11/13
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Capturing a Web Page Without Stylesheets

It is amazing to live in an environment where the Internet connection is ubiquitous and fast. But in case the tube is having a problem and the bits from the web server are broken into random pieces, how does the web site look like?

Allen Coin06/11/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (June 11)

Today: JDK 8 is almost feature-complete, Is Wikipedia's front page for sale?; how to encrypt your GChat from the NSA, the new Mac Pro and iOS from Apple, and why is embedding HTML5 still so difficult?

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.

Gunnar Peipman06/10/13
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Aloha Editor–simple and easy to use HTML5 WYSIWYG editor

Some sites need a simple WYSIWYG editor just to provide some simple formatting options for some texts. Aloha Editor is small, compact and easy to use. It may save a remarkable amount of space on views where more than one WYSIWYG editor is needed.

John Whish06/10/13
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AngularJS slides from Scotch on the Rocks

I recently had the pleasure of speaking about AngularJS at Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh. I've uploaded my slide deck and you can find them here:

Andy Hawthorne06/10/13
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CentOS 6.4 and PHP 5.3

In the first article, I described how I set up CentOS 6.4 including with Apache to get ready for web development. In this article, I’ll describe what I did to get CentOS and PHP 5.3 up and running.

Sandeep Patel06/10/13
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Pure CSS Grid By Yahoo

Pure CSS is a lightweight styles collection by Yahoo. It is responsive in nature. This framework is created on Small mobile devices screen in mind.

Robert Diana06/09/13
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Geek Reading June 7, 2013

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

Kin Lane06/09/13
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Hacking Your Automobile Dashboard

In the tech space we use the term dashboard a lot. Think about how overused that term is when delivering web applications, portals, home page, start page and any other bullshit incarnation on the Internet where you heard the term dashboard applied to!

Ariya Hidayat06/08/13
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JavaScript Timing: Accuracy vs Precision

When analyzing the performance of a JavaScript-based application, stopwatch is often a convenient tool. Just like any other timing measurements in real life, it is important to ensure that this produces a valid and confident result. Thus, we need to avoid some factors which may reduce its accuracy and precision.

Ben Forta06/08/13
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Appliness June 2013 Published

The June 2013 edition of Appliness is out, and it includes coverage of PhoneGap, Backbone.js, RequireJS, Chromium Embedded Framework, CSS and Media Queries, and more.

Niels Matthijs06/07/13
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Accessibility is not about minorities, it's about balance

Why am I ranting about this? Well, assistive technology (like screen readers) isn't always top notch and up to date with the latest HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards.

Juri Strumpflohner06/07/13
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Caching, jQuery Ajax and Other IE Fun

In the last couple of days I had quite a fun time debugging problems of our JavaScript SPAs on oldIE. I encountered some quite interesting behavior of IE with jQuery Ajax calls and cached responses. To have this experiment work, ensure you have your browser caches active.

Andrew Trice06/07/13
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DataVizDC Meetup: Images, Resources & Audio Recording

Last night I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Data Visualization With Web Standards to the DataVizDC meetup group. Luckily, I was able to save the audio feed, which you can listen to here:

Raymond Camden06/07/13
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IndexedDB and Date Example

About an hour ago I gave a presentation on IndexedDB. One of the attendees asked about dates and being able to filter based on a date range. I told him that my assumption was that you would need to convert the dates into numbers and use a number-based range. Turns out I was wrong. Here is an example.