Archive for February, 2012

Introducing the New Developer Experience – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs. I haven’t used a Microsoft product (aside from browser testing or helping with a family/friend computer issue) in a number of years, but I’m always interested in seeing what they’ve got cooking. It’s a monstrous company with many resources, [...]

The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks « caines.ca/blog. The headline’s a bit link-baity, but I agree with most of the sentiment. I can’t help but to be inundated with all of the great things happening in the JavaScript world over the past year. It’s some of the most exciting stuff I’ve ever seen [...]

Learn Regex The Hard Way Scanning And Parsing Text Without Going Insane. Regex. It continues to be one of the more challenging things for me since it usually involves writing a custom pattern. Sure there are the classic regular expressions to validate various common circumstances, but trying to write your own regex for a very [...]

Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.1.0 RC1 | jQuery Mobile. The jQuery Mobile team continues to be hard at work, and the RC for 1.1.0 has an impressive changelog. Improved toolbar implementation Faster & smoother transitions Two new transitions, and -moz support in prep for a hopeful future build of Mobile Firefox New AJAX loader design & [...]

10 Coding Tips to Write Superior jQuery Plugins | Websanova. Great, cohesive list of tips for writing your jQuery plugins: Keep All Your Code in a Closure Provide and Extend Default Options Always Return the Element Keep Single Use Code Outside Main Loop Setup Class Prototyping – The Why Setup Class Prototyping – The How [...]

Morris.js. I love nice looking charts. These are nice looking charts. Powered by jQuery and Raphaël, this charting library is reminiscent of what you’d see in Google Analytics and many other metrics system we all stare at quite a bit of the time.

Opera Developer News – Opera Mobile 12, and introducing Opera Mini Next. Opera will always have a place in my heart, I continually look up to them for the work they do. Not only that, I look up to them for their determination in such a crowded market. There are a lot of big players [...]

Google offers $1 million reward to hackers who exploit Chrome. It’s just occurring to me now that contests like these are just like the design contests that consistently get lambasted each and every time they crop up. I likely don’t hear any recoil about these browser security contests because I’m not in that community, but [...]

Web Dev .NET: TextMate-like ⌘T & ⇧⌘T in Chrome Dev Tools & Other New Features. Chrome has been my primary browser since a few months after it’s debut. I’m a sucker for WebKit and the thing just flies. Elijah Manor took some time to outline some of the bleeding edge changes coming to the Web [...]

It’s very easy to get a bit lazy when programming, laziness is a very common trait of programmers after all. It’s one of the few cases where that’s not a bad thing, getting things done with the least amount of work is often great when it comes to writing code. Integrating logic-less templates into your project can help you to do less work.