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Earth Temperature Timeline

The earth is always in a constant state of temperature change. This has been true since long before humans were here, and will continue long after we are gone. The question of the last couple generations has been; Are Humans causing an above average temperature shift? XKCD, one of my favourite online comics, has done […]

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What Every Startup Needs to Know About ReactJS

The title is a bit misleading. This is good knowledge for anyone looking to build applications or websites using ReactJS. I’m been wanting to build a new ReactJS powered SPA, but I was worried about the discoverability consequences. This article really helped clarify what I can do to help with that.

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What Web Devs Need to Know about Autofill

Cloud Four has just posted a great roundup on autofill on the web. This article covers a bunch of attributes and values that I didn’t know existed. For example, if you have Organization in your form, you can type hint the autocomplete in the browser by doing: autocomplete=”organization”

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Use PHP to Retrieve All Links on a Page

I was developing a project recently, where I had the need to get all the links on a certain page. I first turned to a JavaScript library, like Jasmine. I really wanted to do this within my PHP code, so I ended up going with this solution: $html = file_get_contents(‘http://www.example.com’); $dom = new DOMDocument(); @$dom->loadHTML($html); […]

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Test Driven API Development

DotDev has posted a great tutorial on Test Driven API Development. Even though I already develop test driven APIs, I still love reading articles like this to see how others are solving problems. I have rolled my own Transformers in the past, and I am very excited about the Fractal package they reference in this […]

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What Every Browser Knows About You

As a web developer, I love the amount of information I can grab from the browser. As a privacy advocate and tech enthusiast, I am horrified by how much information is leaked to the browser.