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Web Development News Week 3, January 2012   no comments

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Web development news for the 3rd week of 2012:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #62 – January 20th, 2012

The V8 Myth: Why JavaScript is not a Worthy Competitor, JavaScript Design Patterns: Decorators, Simplicity and JavaScript Modules, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #21 – January 18th, 2011

(Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders using CSS3, The Lowdown on :Before and :After in CSS, The CSS3 Click Chart, …

Browsers

Christian Heilmann wrote an interesting article about some real world browser stats.

Written by Admin on January 25th, 2012

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Web Development News Week 2, January 2012   no comments

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Web development news for the 2nd week of 2012:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #61 – January 13th, 2012

What You May Not Know About jQuery (in 5 Methods), JavaScript’s ‘eval’ Considered Crazy, Writing Quality Third-Party JS: Part 1 – The First Rule, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #20 – January 11th, 2011

Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes, 7 Things Still Missing From CSS, Cut the Rope: A Slick HTML5 Game from Microsoft and ZeptoLab, …

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Web Development News Week 1, January 2012   no comments

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Web development news for the 1st week of 2012:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #60 – January 6th, 2012

WebStorm 3.0: A JavaScript IDE from JetBrains, JsFiddle Tips And Tricks, Matador: An MVC Framework for Node (by Dustin Diaz), …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #19 – January 4th, 2011

Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript, How Google Ported ‘Angry Birds’ to HTML5, Implementing Minecraft in WebGL, …

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Web Development News Week 51 – 52, December 2011   no comments

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Sorry to miss my update last week, I was spending time with the family and wasn’t able to post. However, 2012 is here and I hope find time to write more substantive articles.

Anyway here is the web development news for the last two weeks of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #58 – December 23rd, 2011

Fake Operator Overloading in JavaScript, JavaScript as a First Language class, Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck, …

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #59 – December 30th, 2011

The Rise and Rise of JavaScript, The JS Guide to Objects, Functions, Closures and Scope, 12 Days of CreativeJS, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #18 – December 21st, 2011

The Smallest Possible Valid (X)HTML Documents, The HTML5 ‘output’ Element, Internet Explorer to Get Automatic Upgrades across XP, Vista and Windows 7, …

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Web Development News Week 50, December 2011   no comments

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Web development news for the 50th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #57 – December 16th, 2011

SOLID JavaScript: The Single Responsibility Principle, A Case Against Using CoffeeScript, JSPkg: A New Place to Host JavaScript Packages, …

PPK discusses the state of static positioning in mobile browsers: Position Fixed.

Nicholas Zakas discusses timer resolution in browsers. He’s discussed this topic before, but is updating us on the present and future of timer resolution.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #17 – December 14th, 2011

How to Use Firebug on your iPad and iPhone, HTML5 Scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire, What I Learned About the Web in 2011: An Experts’ Roundup, …

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Web Development News Week 49, December 2011   no comments

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Web development news for the 49th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #56 – December 9nd, 2011

What is Happening to the jQuery Plugins Site, Introducing ECMAScript 5.1, Introducing Mozilla’s JavaScript Native File Management: OS.File, …

It’s time again for the yearly JavaScript Developer Survery.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #16 – December 7th, 2011

Top 6 Trends In HTML5 In 2011, Auto-Saving User Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js, Let’s have a look at some recently landed Web APIs for Firefox, …

Python

I discovered an interesting article on the Yipit blog, where they discuss feature flipping in a continuous deployment Django/Python environment: Getting to Continuous Deployment in Django: Feature Flipping.

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Web Development News Week 48, December 2011   no comments

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Web development news for the 48th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #55 – December 2nd, 2011

JavaScript Libraries Now Used by 50% of Top 1m Web Sites, Principles of Writing Consistent Idiomatic JavaScript, Nondeterministic Turing Machine Simulator in 23 Lines of JavaScript, …

I also found Extending JavaScript Natives by Angus Croll very interesting. It covers a lot of the reasons why we all know not to extend natives in JavaScript, but also mentions a few cases where it might make sense to bend this rule.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #15 – November 30th, 2011

Stitches – An HTML5 Sprite Generator, Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery, HTML5 Semantics and Good Coding Practices, …

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Web Development News Week 47, November 2011   no comments

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Web development news for the 47th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #54 – November 25th, 2011

Felix’s Node.js Style Guide, Face Detection jQuery Plugin, Asynchronous UIs – The Future of Web User Interfaces, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #14 – November 23rd, 2011

Adobe Donates Flex to Apache, The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5, Going Fullscreen with Canvas, …

CSS

If you aren’t using SASS to better manage your CSS, then you should check out this article, Getting Started With SASS from A List Apart. I’ve started using SASS for all my projects as it allows for easier cross-browser support and I have to write much less code.

General

Many web companies are opposing SOPA, the A List Apart article, Say No to SOPA, describes why you should oppose SOPA as well.

Written by Admin on November 29th, 2011

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Web Development News Week 38, September 2011   no comments

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Web development news for the 38th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #45 – September 23, 2011

V8 the technology behind Node.js has fixed a 1gb memory limit, learning JavaScript articles, faster performance with memoization, namespacing patterns, …

YUI has released version 3.4.1.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #5 – September 21, 2011

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Web Development News Week 39, September 2011   no comments

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Web development news for the 39th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #46 – September 30, 2011

Google releases a JS test framework built on V8, JavaScript console tutorial video by Paul Irish, check out JSNES (an impressive nintendo emulator), …

General

Nicholas Zackas talks about the web standards process and how they are failing us: When Web Standards Fail Us.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #6 – September 28, 2011

FireFox 7 released and is a big improvement over 6, Paul Irish discusses browser version pollution, Drag and drop editing, …

Other

Sorry for the late posting, I replaced my harddrive with an SSD and managed to misconfigure the permissions of my blogging virtualhost directory. The final article in the Continuous Deployment series is nearly done and I am outlining an article about setting your development environment up for easily working on multiple computers.

Written by Admin on November 27th, 2011

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