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The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript

Posted 26 hours ago

Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking that design is left only for designers. There is a lot of design in code, and I don’t mean code that builds the user interface—I mean the design of code. … [Link]

Writing Testable JavaScript

Posted 26 hours ago

We’ve all been there: that bit of JavaScript functionality that started out as just a handful of lines grows to a dozen, then two dozen, then more. Along the way, a function picks up a few more arguments; a conditional picks up a few more conditions. And then one day, the bug report comes in: something’s broken, and it’s up … [Link]

WebDeveloper.com

Think special – Magento with windows 8 ui metro style

Posted 95 minutes ago

Forum: Mobile Web Development Posted By: mage-shop Post Time: 05-22-2013 at 03:47 AM [Link]

What's a "working sample"?

Posted 95 minutes ago

Forum: The Coffee Lounge Posted By: gnrmjd Post Time: 05-22-2013 at 03:30 AM [Link]

WebSEO

Cómo funciona Google

Posted 11 weeks ago

Google nos explica con esta infografía cómo funciona su buscador. El gráfico muestra la cantidad de spam que Google elimina diariamente, con qué frecuencia Google notifica a los propietarios de sitios sobre el spam, cuántas búsquedas realiza cada momento, y mucho más. Hace unos años (marzo 2010) Matt Cutts explicaba cómo funcionaba Google con este vídeo The post Cómo funciona … [Link]

Project Glass, las gafas de realidad aumentada de Google

Posted 13 weeks ago

Si eres de los que quieren saber cómo se ve y qué se siente en con las gafas de Google de su Project Glass. Ya es posible ordenar a tus gafas que tomen una foto, graben vídeo o que compartan lo que estás viendo en vivo. The post Project Glass, las gafas de realidad aumentada de Google appeared first on … [Link]

WordPress News

WordPress 3.6 Beta 3

Posted 11 days ago

WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 is now available! This is software still in development and we really don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta … [Link]

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2

Posted 3 weeks ago

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 is now available! This is software still in development and we really don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta … [Link]

drupal.org

Drupal.org Downtime: May 9th 5PM PDT (0:00 UTC)

Posted 14 days ago

Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 30 minutes Thursday, May 9, 17:00 PDT (May 10, 0:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to remove a core hack. Please follow the @drupal_infra twitter account for updates during the downtime and thanks for your patience! [Link]

Community Spotlight: Scott Reynen

Posted 3 weeks ago

Scott Reynen has done some fun things in the Drupal community. Some notable examples: Coordinated many meetups in Denver ensuring they happen, with interesting topics, and tasty pizza options Helped to organize several Drupalcamps in Colorado (which will be June 29th/30 in 2013) Presents on various topics at Drupalcamps Helps as one of the 3 site maintainers for groups.drupal.org Is … [Link]

Webmonkey

The Two Flavors of a ‘One Web’ Approach: Responsive vs. Adaptive

Posted 16 days ago

A handful of the many screens your website must handle. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com[Editor's note: The following is a guest post from Igor Faletski, CEO of Mobify, which provides tools for adapting web sites for smartphones and tablets.] You’ve probably heard people say we’re living in a “post-PC world.” What does that mean for web developers? It means that 30% to 50% … [Link]

Internet Explorer 10 Doubles Its Desktop Market Share

Posted 21 days ago

NetMarketShare’s browser stats for April 2013. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 saw a meteoric rise in market share last month, jumping from 2.93 percent in March to 6.22 percent in April, according to NetMarketShare. Some of IE 10′s growth might be attributable to more Windows 8 machines coming online, but it also comes close on the heels of the release … [Link]

Dev Shed – Web Developer Tutorials

More Java Bugs Lead to More Attacks

Posted 12 weeks ago

Security Explorations posted on their website that they sent the vulnerability notice of what they're calling issues 54 and 55, along with proof of concept code, to Oracle. The software giant confirmed that it received the report and successfully decrypted it. Now it says it will investigate based on the data provided and get back to us soon, Security Explorations … [Link]

Oracle Unveils MySQL 5.6

Posted 3 months ago

MySQL 5.6 comes ready for production use now after nearly two years of development. This version can credit its improved speed and efficiency to upgrades to the InnoDB storage engine. As a result, the software can scale better on systems of more than 48 concurrent processor threads, making it noticeably faster than its predecessor for most tasks. MySQL 5.6 also … [Link]

Build Internet

Updating Social Widgets with the History API

Posted 15 months ago

Keep Your Social Current After working with the HTML5 history API for the launch of You Rather, I hit a snag with keeping social widgets current. The content and URL would update, but the Like button would stick to the original document location. As it turns out, Twitter and Facebook widgets that can’t simply be updated via typical jQuery selectors … [Link]

YRDropdownView – A Polite UIAlertView Alternative for iOS

Posted 16 months ago

UIKit’s Shortcomings From day one, iOS developers have been struggling to alert users about simple warnings and errors that may not interrupt the flow of the app. Popping up UIAlertViews requires the user to click a button to move along, which wasn’t quite necessary for warnings that merely limit useability. Adding a UILabel somewhere on the screen isn’t consistent and … [Link]

PHP.net news & announcements

Seriously: PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25 really were released!

Posted 13 days ago

We weren't trying to pull an April Fool's Day joke in May. A temporary glitch caused the latest distributions of PHP to not properly propagate to the mirror servers. This has been fixed at the root level, and it's now being distributed to all of the mirrors. We'll take some bacon to go with the egg on our faces, please! … [Link]

PHP 5.5.0RC1 is available

Posted 13 days ago

The PHP development team announces the availability of the first release candidate of PHP 5.5. This release fixes some bugs as well as some possible leaks from our last beta. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! You can find an incomplete changelog of PHP 5.5.0RC1 here : Ignore QUERY_STRING when sent in SCRIPT_FILENAME in … [Link]

Latest Updates from MySQL

Big Fish Selects MySQL Cluster to Serve Real-Time Web Recommendations

Posted 3 weeks ago

World's Largest Producer of Casual Games Uses World’s Most Popular Open Source Database to Power Improved User Experience [Link]

Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL 5.6

Posted 3 months ago

New Version of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database Designed to Power Next Generation Web, Cloud and Mobile Applications [Link]

ProgrammableWeb

The Truecaller API: Phone Directory via Crowd-source

Posted 8 hours ago

This guest post comes from Andreas Krohn, API Specialist and consultant at Dopter. He blogs about APIs at Mashup.se(in Swedish) and organises API events at Nordic APIs. The 600 million numbers that Truecaller has in its directory have been collected via crowd-sourcing. Truecaller’s users can share their contacts and in return they get access to search in the collaborative database. Thanks … [Link]

Today In APIs: Duedil API, Box HIPAA Compliance and 9 New APIs

Posted 19 hours ago

Duedil API widens its reach with company information from 20 additional countries across Europe. Box Developers can now take advantage of its HIPAA Compliance Plus: Khronos to create Camera Control Open Standard API, The Splunk SDKs for C#, PHP and Ruby have arrived and 9 new APIs. Duedil API Adds Private Company Data from 20 New Countries DuedilIf you are looking at … [Link]

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