Putting WordPress into Hyperdrive less than 1 minute readLoading Pages Faster than the Speed of Light with Fetch Inject, Redis, Vultr, Load Impact and LEMP.
Managing Async Dependencies with JavaScript less than 1 minute readManaging asynchronous dependencies with JavaScript can be a nightmare. But there’s a better way. It’s called Fetch Injection.
Serverless Email Forwards with SES and Lambda 6 minutes readHow to create your own email forwarding service using Serverless and AWS Lambda.
Using ES7 Decorators with Babel 6 less than 1 minute readI wrote this late last year and it gets, well, a lot of traffic. Why? Because it hit home with a common concern in the JS community–a path forward for decora...
Awesome React Boilerplates 7 minutes readAwesome React starter kits to kick your app development into high gear.
React Resources less than 1 minute readReact’s been getting pretty hot lately. So hot even Yehuda Katz is looking for a good tutorial. And while I’m not a big fan of huge resource lists (and this ...
Tame Async JavaScript with ES6 1 minute readTame async JavaScript with ES6 using Generators and Promises
CoffeeScript for Tessel with Yeoman and Gulp 5 minutes readLearn how to transpile CoffeeScript to JavaScript using Yeoman and Gulp for use with the Tessel microcontroller
Tools for building rich web apps 2 minutes readAfter recently planning to do a survey of tools for building rich web apps I stumbled across https://github.com/codylindley/frontend-tools, which claims to b...
A back-end for Backbone.js apps using Ruby, Sinatra and MongoDB 1 minute readAfter recently writing about [web app development using backbone and vagrant][1] I’ve started to spend time immersing myself in Ruby and Ruby Gems. Tonight w...
The Holy Grail: Full-stack JavaScript MVC with Rendr less than 1 minute readSpike at Airbnb just mentioned during a live TechTalk webcast that the Rendr framework they built was open sourced earlier this month: https://github.com/air...
Developing single-page apps on Windows with Vagrant 11 minutes readHow to set up rapid Web development workflow in Windows using a virtualized Linux box.
Backbone.js Extensions, Plugins, Resources less than 1 minute readJust unearthed this handy-looking list of extensions, plugins and resources for Backbone.js and wanted to share: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/wi...
Using promises for non-ajax asynchronous callbacks in JavaScript less than 1 minute readAfter recently falling prey (again) to the immediate execution of a counter-based timing function used to execute a non-Ajax asynchronous callback method in ...
The Holy Grail of Rich Internet Applications 1 minute readOne of the largest perceived drawbacks to creating a SPA or other Rich Internet Application is that they’re not SEO friendly or very accessible. With the adv...
Amp up CoffeeScript coding with Sublime Text 3 minutes readSublime Text with [CoffeeScript][1] is a JavaScript developer’s dream, but one that doesn’t evaporate in the fog of sleep shortly after waking. After learnin...
On touch events and mobile web app usability 2 minutes readI recently heard a talk from Peter-Paul Koch of [QuirksMode][1] on the touch events in mobile. During the presentation PPK gave us a great sound bite to use ...
JSONView for Google Chrome less than 1 minute readLearned about the [JSONView Google Chrome extension][1]. A handy tool for viewing formatted JSON data in the browser. There’s also an add-on for Firefox.
Switching from Firebug to Chrome Dev Tools less than 1 minute readHere’s the presentation given at Google I/O this year by Paul Irish and Pavel Feldman that got me to switch to Chrome Developer Tools promptly after watching...
HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills less than 1 minute readRecently ran across this impressive list of HTML5 cross-browser shim/polyfills on GitHub on the Modernizer Wiki: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/...
Analyzing User Agent Strings 3 minutes readThe user agent string, a piece of data transmitted in the HTTP header during a web request, contains information valuable in determining browser type and oft...
Building a Better Lightbox 2 minutes readThough modal dialogs are not a new concept in UI design, the number of homegrown [Lightbox clones][1] appearing on the Web since major JavaScript libraries l...
Web Development and Debugging Tools 2 minutes readFollowing is a list of cross-browser/platform web development and debugging tools useful for client-side developers. Depending on the application, one or al...