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Forward new port on running vagrant / virtualbox machine

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How to use local filesystem remotes with git

If you develop with git and use multiple computers, you may find you want to keep your repos updated across these different computers. One way to do this is to use a git repo hosting provider like Github and push and fetch from remote branc...

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Why you should use react.js unminified during development

Facebook’s React javascript library is gaining popularity. When using third party javascript code, it’s easy to download the minified version and develop against that as you’ll want the minified version in production anyway.

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React JS (JS Conf EU 2013)

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Dance Music in Javascript (JS Conf EU 2013)

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Develop right in Chrome DevTools ... with Sass too! (Google I/O 2013)

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How many times has an URL been tweeted?

You may have noticed how some websites let you know how many times URLs have been tweeted. How do they do that? The twitter api will help.

The the call we need is:

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json

This call takes a ...

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Show a cookie policy notice on first site visit

Sites in various parts of the world, for example the UK, need to display information to visitors about their use of cookies. This is typically done with a cookie information page and a notice which appears on a user’s first visit...

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Jekyll and static sites (The Web Ahead on 5by5)

In this podcast, Jen Simmons talks to Young Hahn and Dave Cole on the Web Ahead (on the 5by5 network) about Jekyll and static sites. Lots of interest here.

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A CSS slide up splash screen

You can highlight important content and add an aspect of fluidity to a page by creating a slide up effect over your splash content with CSS.

First we need some sample HTML.

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Track external link clicks with Google Universal Analytics

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Multi-column lists losing their bullets

If you’re trying the CSS columns property, or its various browser prefixed variants, you may notice your bullet points disappearing. This can happen on Chrome and to a lesser extent on Opera.

The Problem

Take the following H...