Vagrant is great for starting up virtual machines for development. A quick and easy setup is to use basic networking with ...
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...
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.
...React JS (JS Conf EU 2013)
A look at what makes React JS user interfaces different from JS Conf EU 2013 by Pete Hunt. React is a powerful, modern javascript view laye...
Dance Music in Javascript (JS Conf EU 2013)
A highly entertaining and funky look at creating contemporary dance music in javascript from a talk at JS Conf EU 2013 by ...
Develop right in Chrome DevTools ... with Sass too! (Google I/O 2013)
Paul Irish goes on a walk through of some awesome Google Chrome DevTools features. Some of the great features to learn about:
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Edit and save files right in the bro...
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 ...
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...
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.
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
Google Analytics and the newer Univeral Analytics are useful ways of keeping track of how users interac...
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...