7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know. I'm not sure about you, but Google Chrome has been my primary browser for quite some time. At first the simplicity and speed of Chrome initially drew me in. I do admit I went back to Firefox every so often for Firebug's rich set of debugging tools. However, over the past year or so the amount of tooling for developers and designers in Chrome has grown immensely.
Here are some fairly recent features of Google Chrome that you may not be aware of... 1. How many times have you been tinkering around JavaScript and wished you could tweak it out temporarily just to test something out? Usages for this could be as simple as adding a console.log or modifying a piece of code that you think is broken. 2. Sometimes I'm trying to figure out a bug and unfortunately the JavaScript that was included has been minified. Thankfully Chrome has a Pretty Print feature that will take a minified JavaScript file and format it property. 3. 4. 5. Well, you can now with the Google Chrome. 6. 7. Processing.org.
Sauce Labs: Browsers. Clean out your Sass Junk-Drawer. The True Problem With PHP. There's been a lot of traffic lately about what's wrong with PHP, and counter posts about how good it is. I've even fallen into the fray in an earlier article trying to step up and defend the language. The problem with almost all of these posts is that they focus on the language itself and what's wrong (or right) with it. This is not one of those posts. The True Problem The true problem with PHP lies in the community. Not the majority of the community mind you, but the fringes. The core of the PHP community is filled with a lot of really talented and smart developers doing some really amazing things.
The simple fact that a site like w3schools still exists as a top result from a Google search is proof enough of that point. Why Is It A Problem? This is something I've struggled with. Even if we just look at tutorials talking about accessing data from a database, we get loads of bad information. What Can We Do About It? What Do You Think? Is the idea perfect?
Create a jQuery Plugin. CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript". The code compiles one-to-one into the equivalent JS, and there is no interpretation at runtime. You can use any existing JavaScript library seamlessly from CoffeeScript (and vice-versa). Latest Version: 1.7.1 sudo npm install -g coffee-script Overview CoffeeScript on the left, compiled JavaScript output on the right. number = 42 opposite = true number = -42 if opposite square = (x) -> x * x list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] math = root: Math.sqrt square: square cube: (x) -> x * square x race = (winner, runners...)
-> print winner, runners alert "I knew it! " run: cubes Installation The CoffeeScript compiler is itself written in CoffeeScript, using the Jison parser generator. Npm install -g coffee-script Usage load run. 23 Tips on How to A/B Test Like a Badass. JW Player for Flash v5. Guide to CSS support in email. Version history 14 November 2017 Outlook.com and the Outlook iOS app added support for CSS background images and some related properties, as well as certain Flexbox and Grid properties.
Also added iOS 11 Mail to the guide, with no noticeable differences from iOS 10. 22 September 2017 Microsoft updated the Outlook apps for iOS and Android with more consistent CSS support, including media queries. 13 September 2017 A complete rewrite and redesign of the guide, testing 278 different CSS properties and features across 35 email clients. To accommodate the huge increase in content, we’ve added search functionality and the ability to link directly to individual the email clients and properties for easy sharing.Discuss this on our blog. 2 May 2014 Removed support for various selector options (E) in Gmail and added support for direction, vertical-align and list-style-type in Outlook ’07/’10/’13. 19 September 2013 30 January 2013 1 February 2012 background-image is now supported in Gmail. 10 December 2010. SOCR: Statistics Online Computational Resource. Regular Expression Test Tool. Best Chrome Extensions. Hurricane Electric Interactive Programming.
Google Docs API: Client Login with PHP and Curl. A few days ago I started looking deeper into the Google Code APIs and threw a few experiments using the Google Documents List Data API. Unfortunately, the only library they have for the third version of their protocol is written in Java. There is a PHP wrapper for the first version of the protocol, but it totally depends on the Zend Framework.
Here’s a little code snippet for logging into a Google Docs account (writely) using ClientLogin with Curl and PHP. The Auth string is stored into the $auth variable for later use. ClientLogin assumes you login once and use the auth string for all on-going requests (more info: ClientLogin – Google Code). It seems though that Google Docs is purely for documents (spreadsheets and presentations) but not for actual files, as a JPEG I uploaded turned into a text/html type.
I came across a cool website which I believe the Googlers have made – Data Liberation: Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Data Feed Query Explorer - Google Analytics - Google Code. Keynotopia: User Interface Design Libraries for Keynote, PowerPoint and OpenOffice. StartSSL™ Certificates & Public Key Infrastructure. HTML5 video issues on the iPad and how to solve them. I’ve been delaying this post since I wrote a rant about the iPad. The delay is mainly because I never found time to create sample files or record screencasts showing the bugs so I decided to publish it without any working examples since I don’t think I will have enough time or patience to isolate the problems and document it anytime soon, so you will have to believe that what I’m saying “is true” and that the bugs exist… Think of it as a reference in case you have any of those issues and not as a definitive way of making those things work, some bugs are only present on older versions of iOS and may not be easy to replicate.
I’m sure I will leave a lot of important stuff behind but at least I’ll try to cover some bugs and how I solved them. I will try to be brief. Bugs and Hacks Preload video Here is an example of the code required to preload a video after user interaction on iOS 3.2+: As you can see on the code comments it requires a series of hacks to make it work properly.
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