Category Archives: web development

backbone.offline

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 6, 2012

backbone.offline, by Ask11 About Backbone.offline Adds ability to store the data to localStorage and sync data with a server. It is useful when you want to: let your app to work offline in combination with cache manifest not to bootstrap initial data every time you save it to the localStorage. You can refresh your collection [...]

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I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 6, 2012

Getting started in web dev with Python by Eevee This is not a tutorial. I may write one in the future, but for now, plenty of them already exist, and I assume you can read documentation. Instead, this is an overview of the current state of affairs for someone new to Python web development. Very [...]

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dynamo.js

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 6, 2012

Jordon Scales A dead-simple way to generate dynamic bits of HTML and add subtle effects to your content. Looks pretty neat. It’s like having a text carousel. I would be inclined if you were going to use it give the effect a bit more of a visual cue. I didn’t notice what was happening when [...]

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The Elm Programming Language

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 5, 2012

Evan Czaplicki The Elm programming language aims to make web development more pleasant. Elm is a type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Elm’s major distinguishing features are support for reactive programming and its focus on Graphical User Interfaces. Tweet

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Make “Pre” Text Wrap

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 27, 2012

Make “Pre” Text Wrap, css-tricks Text in pre tags doesn’t wrap by default. pre { white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */ white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */ white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */ white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */ word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */ } This is an issue I’ve had with code [...]

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Modern Web Development Part 1 – The Webkit Inspector

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 24, 2012

Majd Taby The mobile landscape today is all but monopolized by WebKit, as a result, most of the tooling and infrastructure to support mobile web development on the frontend is taking place in the WebKit Inspector, so I’ll focus on it, and take a deep dive into its entire feature-set and how and when to [...]

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The Extinction of the Scrollbar

By Joshua Lay | Published: March 24, 2012

The Extinction of the Scrollbar by Andrew Turrell However, as the prominence of system scrollbars has reduced, designers need to be more conscious of them, and understand the benefits of scrollbars that are lost when they’re not shown It’s an interesting predicament. Scroll bars have been the main stay indicators of more information and still [...]

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