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Embedding CSS Code in a Web Page

Three ways to incorporate CSS code into a web page

Floating Elements in CSS

An overview of the float property in CSS

JavaScript Methods

An overview methods in JavaScript

JavaScript Objects

A quick overview of some of the things you can do with JavaScript

Vue User Manager - Step 4

A tutorial that covers some of the things that can trip you up when learning Vue

Vue User Manager - Step 3

A tutorial that covers some of the things that can trip you up when learning Vue

Vue User Manager - Step 2

A tutorial that covers some of the things that can trip you up when learning Vue

Vue User Manager - Step 1

A tutorial that covers some of the things that can trip you up when learning Vue

The CSS Box Model

An overview of the 'box model' in CSS and setting the dimensions of HTML elements

CSS Colors and Fonts

A very quick discussion about fonts and colors in CSS

CSS Inheritance and Specificity

An overview of inheritance and specificity in CSS

CSS - Everything You Need To Know

Everything you need to know in order to get started with CSS

Making Web Pages Responsive With CSS Media Queries

An overview of CSS media queries and responsive images

Positioning Elements in CSS

An overview of the position property in CSS

JavaScript Events

Understanding event-driven programming in JavaScript

Exploring the DOM API

Getting familiar with the powerful methods of the DOM API

JavaScript Loops

Getting started with loops in JavaScript

JavaScript Arrays

Getting started with arrats in JavaScript

JavaScript DOM Objects

Using JavaScript and the DOM to interact with HTML

JavaScript Date Objects

Working with dates and times in JavaScript

JavaScript Constructor Functions

An overview of constructor functions in JavaScript

Getting Started With Node Package Manager

An introduction into some of the very cool things you can do with NPM

Gulp, Sass, and Bootstrap

Using Gulp, SASS, and Bootstrap together in a project

Going Live With Your Website

How to take your website live on the internet

Characteristics of a Good Website

A discussion about the qualities of a good website

CSS Layout Activity

After ramping up on HTML and CSS, it's time to build a real web page!

How The Web Works

A quick overview of how clients and servers communicate on the web

Embedding JavaScript Code Into a Web Page

An overview of three different ways to embed JavaScript code into a web page.

Commenting JavaScript Code

An overview of commenting JavaScript code.

JavaScript Functions

An overview of functions in JavaScript

Following Up On IF Statements And Operators

Some important concepts related to IF statements and operators

IF Statements in JavaScript

An overview of IF statements and conditional code in JavaScript

JavaScript Operators

An overview of operators in JavaScript

JavaScript Variables and Data Types

An overview of variables and data types in JavaScript

Nested IF Statements and Algorithms

Creating IF statements based on algorithms

Introduction to JavaScript

An overview of some of the things you can do with JavaScript

Highlighting Your Code Samples With Prism

This short article will get you started with Prism in not time.

jQuery vs Plain Old JavaScript (Vanilla JS)

A quick and simple comparison of jQuery and plain old JavaScript (Vanilla JS)

NPM and Babel

Incorporating Babel into a project with NPM

NPM, Gulp, and SASS

In this tutorial we'll incorporate Gulp and SASS into our NPM project

Mocking a Web Service with NPM and JSON Server

In this quick tutorial, we'll set up a mock web service with NPM and JSON Server

HTML Odds and Ends

A smorgesboard of some things we didn't cover in the other lessons on HTML.

HTML Layout Elements

An overview of HTML layout elements

HTML Forms

An overview of creating HTML forms

HTML Images and Video

A quick overview of adding images and video to a web page.

HTML Tables

Adding tables and tabluar data to a web page

HTML Basics - Everything You Need To Know

Everything you need to know to get started with HTML, no programming experience required.

HTML Hyperlinks

In this lesson you will learn how to create a few different types of list in your HTML code.

HTML Lists

In this lesson you will learn how to create a few different types of list in your HTML code.

HTML Relationships

Understanding the relationships between elements in HTML

Getting Started With HTML

An introductory tutorial on HTML. Create your first web page in just a few minutes.

Can Designers and Developers Work Together?

Java - JDBC Code Examples for MSSQL

I had to use JDBC for a recent task. Here are a few simple examples of executing a simple query and also a prepared statement:

UI and Animation

Can you instantiate an interface in Java?

Did you know that you can pass params into the .position() method?

HTML ReadOnly vs Disabled

The difference between readonly and disabled attributes

Java Generics

A good little code sample to help with understanding generics in Java

Getting the Height of the StatusBar in iOS

A snippet that will give you the status bar height, regardless of the orientation

Some Problems of Developing for iOS

Issues that I'm experiencing as a part-time iOS developer

Currying and Partially Applied Functions

A very simple example of currying and partial applied functions

Sorting an array of objects by a property

How to sort an array of objects by one of the object's properties

Using JavaScript regular expressions to match beginning and end of strings

Be careful when using instanceof

If you intend to throw an error if an object is not an instanof some class, be careful of this mistake that's easy to make.

Apache and Filenames That Have Ampersands In Them

Handlebars - Calling a helper function from another helper

And a useful helper for populating select boxes.

Handlebars - reaching up to a value in the parent context

Creating a TAR file and excluding some of the dirs

This is a real time saver!

Some Basic and Useful Cypher Queries for Neo4J

A few queries to help in getting started with Cypher and Neo4J

Neo4j Demo

A demo that I did on Neo4j

Bulk Import Data in Neo4j 2

How to import data from a text file into Neo4j version 2

A Tip For When You Do Cross Origin Requests

I stumbled into an issue in IE when doing CORS ajax calls

Using Handlebars with Backbone and RequireJS and Precompiling templates

Here are 3 different ways of using Handlebars templates with Backbone and RequireJS

Mobile Web Performance Optimizations

This is my summary of an excellent article that I read in Communications of the ACM (written by Nicholas Zakas) .

Getting Google Maps To Work With RequireJS

This can be a little tricky, hopefully this post will save you some time.

Making a JavaScript File AMD Compliant For Use With RequireJS

Quick tip

Simple WebSocket Server in Python

Here's a simple websocket server that I found on github, which I modified very slightly.

Forward And Reverse Proxy Servers

Brief overview of proxying.

Inspecting Your SQLite Database with adb

How to crack open your SQLite database from the adb shell

Overview of Forks, Threads, and Asynchronous I/O

Applications that handle multiple connections can be built in one of three ways; forking processes, using muliple threads, or using asynchronous I/O.

Example Of A Memory Leak

Here's something to watch out for in your code.

Notes From Chrome Developer Course at CodeSchool

I stumbled into this really great course on using the Chrome developer tools. Here are my notes...

Avro - Getting Started (also a good review on using classpath in Java)

Things I stumbled into when messing around with avro...

How To Copy An Array In Javascript

I bumped into this when I was working on a prototype, and discovered that there's a very easy solution...

RequireJS, Google Maps, and Pathing Issues

I learned a few lessons about getting Google Maps to work with RequireJS, and I learned a few things about paths in Requre.js.

Backbone listenTo()

Some notest on backbone's listenTo() method

Example of a Binary Tree

A good little example of a b-tree.

remove() vs. detatch()

Both will remove an element from the DOM, but remove() will wipe out all data and handlers, while detatch() will leaves them untouched.

Use e.which for Keyboard Events

When dealing with callbacks for keyboard events, use e.which.

Scolling on Mobile Devices

Some CSS tricks for scrollable areas

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning; O'Reilly Media

This is a perfect book for intermediate iOS programmers who want to reinforce some of the fundamentals, and learn about new advanced concepts.

Java EE 6 Pocket Guide by Arun Gupta; O'Reilly Media

Review of Java EE 6 Pocket Guide, by Arun Gupta

My first attempt at a Python SQLite class to use in an app

Here is a simple class that is used to fetch data from a SQLite database for a python app

Markdown Reminders

Some self-reminders about working with Markdown syntax

SQLite Reminders

Some self-reminders about sqlite

Git Reminders

Some notes on using git

Publisher Subscriber Pattern

I've been playing with the pub/sub pattern.

Learning About Dust.js

I've been playing with Backbone.js and I discovered a templating tool called dust.js that looks really promising (these notes are not coherent , yet)

Notes on YUI Doc

Self reminders for using YUI Doc

Using JSON.stringify() on an object that contains cyclical references

I stumbled into this when using Google Maps, you can override object values in the output of JSON.stringify().

Overview of UX Testing

Here's my 10 minute introduction to usability testing, and how it rocked my world.

Three Google Analytics metrics for measuring the usability of your website

Funnels, bounce rate, and search terms can give you valuable insight into the usability of your website.

Dealing with military time (and some regular expression stuff too)

Had to convert military time into AM/PM. I thought there would be an easier way to do it, but couldn't find anything. Here's what I did:

What is JSONP?

A quick reminder about how JSONP works.

Self reminder about BASE encoding

This is a self reminder about base encoding (binary, hexidecimal, and base 10)

The main difference between forEach() and map()

While forEach() alters the array that it's called on, map() returns a new array.

Formatting a timestamp

Quick tip for formatting a timestamp in SQLite

How to query the version of a sqlite db

Here's a quick one, but I've had to look this up more than once, so I thought I better blog about it

How To Find The Line Number Of An Error

As a beginner, one of my biggest pet peeves about working with iOS, was not being able to see the line number that caused an error in the debugger.

When using setTimeout(), setInterval(), or requestAnimationFrame()

Remember that the scope of 'this' will be global when your callback function runs in setTimeout(), setInterval(). or requestAnimationFrame().

Adding a Time and a Date and then Converting to Timestamp

This took me longer to figure out than it should have.

Quick Tip - Keyboard and becomeFirstResponder

Quick Tip - Keyboard and becomeFirstResponder

Links To Android Articles On The Old Blog Site

To see a few posts on Android, visit the old blog site. Hope to get back to android development soon.

WebGL: Up and Running by Tony Parisi; O'reilly Media

If you're a web developer looking for a quick introduction to 3D graphics, then this is the book for you.

A quick note on the detach() method..

Here's an interesting little observation I made about the detach() method