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Harry Roberts - Normalising designs for better quality CSS

posted in Must-see on 2013-12-01  

Harry Robers gave some very good advices about designing process. If you receive a lot of PSDs and have to convert them to a web pages then you really need to watch this.

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JavaScript template engine in just 20 lines

posted in JavaScript on 2013-12-01   javascript template engine

I'm still working on my JavaScript based preprocessor - AbsurdJS. It started as a CSS preprocessor, but later it was expanded to CSS/HTML preprocessor. Shortly, it allows JavaScript to CSS/HTML conversion. Of course, because it generates HTML it was normal to act as a template engine. I.e. somehow to fill the markup with data.

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ExpressionEngine: thumbnail could not be created for the image under Windows

posted in PHP on 2013-11-28   file windows thumbnail file upload preferences image created

I'm a Windows user and I'm working on a ExpressionEngine based site. I'm using EasyPHP as a server and everything works as expected. However, once I decided to upload a file I got "Thumbnail could not be created for the image. Please make sure the thumbnail directory is writable.".

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The Power Of Simplicity by Jeremy Keith

posted in Must-see on 2013-11-27   power

Ok guys, there are talks which you should watch. That's one of those. Really! So many truths in just 50 minutes.

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To all devs out there

posted in Architecture on 2013-11-26   good code don t project make end css server start things

There are few things which I'm thinking about last few months. I summarize them here. Initially, I started writing this article for the company which I'm working for - East Interactive. The material is not meant to teach. It just contains few thoughts of main and I hope that my colleagues will find it helpful.

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IDIOTS

posted in Cinema on 2013-11-24  

A great short movie about robots using iPhones. A tale by Big Lazy Robot VFX. Music and sound design by Full Basstards.

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AbsurdJS fundamentals

posted in JavaScript on 2013-11-11   css api color styles var function absurd absurdjs javascript

AbsurdJS became one of my favorite projects. I spent a good amount of time developing it and it's getting more and more interesting. I also received some positive feedback, so I think it is time to write a bit more about the module and explain how it actually works and what exactly is made for.

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An alternative JavaScript for loop syntax

posted in JavaScript on 2013-11-08   users var syntax user users var users undefined elements array

As javascript developers we all have to write a lot of for loops. Before a couple of months I saw an alternative syntax, which I really liked. It saves some time and it looks much nicer. However, one of my colleagues reported that this fancy syntax is not working as it should.

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Martin Kleppe: 1024+ Seconds of JS Wizardry -- JSConf EU 2013

posted in Must-see on 2013-11-05  

If think that you know JavaScript, I have some news to you. You are not right. Watch this video and you will be amazed how many things you can do with only 8 characters.

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Making HTTP realtime with HTTP 2.0 - Realtime Conf 2013 by Ilya Grigorik

posted in Must-see on 2013-11-03   http

Very handy talk by Ilya Grigorik. Full with helpful tips and great explanation of HTTP 2.0.

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