When I wrote 10 things I love about Sass, I included mixins on that list; and though I mentioned that they can be written to take arguments, I did not fully explore that. Combined with Sass’ functions and directives, parameterized mixins can really cut down on the repetitive CSS you need to write–especially when it […]
CSS. Verbose, repetitive, rife with bizarre quirks. Can’t say that I’m a fan. On the web, you’re using it out of necessity. Even the CSS masters out there must admit, there has got to be something better. Fortunately, there’s Sass. A super-set of CSS, it helps to eliminate some of CSS’s most obnoxious aspects during […]
In preparation for an up-coming post 1, I did a bit of extra legwork on syntax highlighting plugins for WordPress and wound up switching from Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress (GSHW) 2 to SyntaxHighlighterPro. Both of them are backed by Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter library. But more on that in a moment. What prompted the […]
SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript-based syntax highlighter with support for multiple languages. It backs several syntax highlighter plugins for WordPress (several of which I've tried, and one of which is currently used here on blog.F_D; none of which seem to use the latest). Seems the CSS highlighter needs a little help. (tagged: blog code wordpress plugin syntaxhighlighter todo […]
UglifyJS at GitHub (via Badass JavaScript) — a new minifier/mangler/compressor utility running in Node.js. (tagged: code javascript compression Node.js minify ) A JavaScript implementation of the Content Aware Image Resizing algorithm at Badass JavaScript — this seems to keep coming up… (tagged: canvas html5 javascript image todo ) When does JavaScript trigger reflows and rendering? […]
Following up on the Google JavaScript Style Guide that made the rounds recently: I did a couple of passes through the document and absorbed as much of it as I could 1. After discussing the style guide with a few peers, I thought that it might make sense to provide some annotations–in part for personal […]
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]
In the realm of technical, programming-related, computer science-type books, The Joy of Clojure is a bit of an oddity. And this is a very good thing. WHAT THE BOOK IS NOT: The Joy of Clojure is not a beginner’s introduction to the language. The Joy of Clojure is not a glorified appendix of methods and […]
Inspired by some recent entanglements with a vendor’s API: The type coercion will ultimately work in your favor but the main point is that the type coercion has to take place in the first place. Granted, it is probably an edge case 1 to do something like: …but you never know. There’s some strange code […]
JavaScript needs modules! by Dave Herman (via @slicknet) (tagged: javascript code ) Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X at Super User (tagged: Apple bash osx terminal todo ) Preview: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald at Tor.com — skimming it, I must say it looks great (and/but McDonald is one of my favorite's […]