jQuery’s implementation of making AJAX calls is quite easy to understand. There is $.ajax(), $.get(), $getJSON(), $.post() – which are all xhr requests, just different ways of writing it. It probably has the most straightforward syntax available and that’s why developers continue to use it, more than other libraries.The funny thing is, once we get […]
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God Dangit Emmet! Where have you been all my life!
HTML has always been one of the most cumbersome code to write. Open brackets, attributes, closing (or not closing) brackets – just tedious. Up until I was taking a small online course – and I see in the video, the developer was using these “shortcuts” to write HTML. This guy wasn’t doing opening nor closing […]
Learning React.js – Looping through multiple nested components
Lately, I’ve been using React for building applications for work. React is a library that takes care of the “views” of your application. It is scalable, fast and very powerful. What I especially like about React is the way it handles the DOM – through something called the “Virtual DOM“. Rendering components through the Virtual […]
How to create Better Tooltips with plain JavaScript and CSS
Today we’ll be building tooltips with JavaScript. Tooltips are the small snippet of text that shows when you hover over a link. The text is from the “Title” attribute of the anchor tag – which is supposed to describe to the user what the link is about, before they click it. View Demo The default […]
Build a SharePoint Single-Page App using nothing but Front-End Code
For this session, I would like to show you how to build a “mini” single page application in SharePoint 2013. A single page application that is ALL Front-end code (JavaScript, HTML and CSS); while using SP’s REST services. We’re also using Bootstrap for the responsiveness and tab interface, Handlebars for the templating, as well as […]
Create Stacks of Webpages with a “Skewed” Effect using Photoshop
It’s been a while since I’ve written a Photoshop tutorial. I have been knee deep with developing that I forgot about my creative side. Well this time we’re creating screenshots of webpages – that have a “skewed” and “stacked” effect. I’ve seen this done in app websites that try to showcase their pages. I think […]