Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Teenagers are turning their back on Facebook ‘in their... switching to simpler social networks and messaging apps,... found.

The anatomy of the twitter-storm that cost media PR pro ... job.

At their most basic, promises are a bit like event liste...
A promise can only succeed or fail once. It cannot s ...
If a promise has succeeded or failed and you later a ...
This is extremely useful for async success/failure, beca ...

Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did.

JSON-RPC is a stateless, light-weight remote procedure c... Primarily this specification defines several data struct... around their processing. It is transport agnostic in tha... be used within the same process, over sockets, over http... various mes

JSON-RPC is a stateless, light-weight remote procedure c... Primarily this specification defines several data struct... around their processing. It is transport agnostic in tha... be used within the same process, over sockets, over http... various mes

New LinkedIn application: ‘INTRO’
This application must not under any circumstances be use ...
How does INTRO work?
INTRO will divert all email sent and received from the e ...
... y email account could lead to these breaches of the Act:

Groups of elements with a common parent that move forwar...
Every stacking context has a single HTML element as its ...
New stacking contexts can be formed on an element in one ...
When an element is the root element of a document (the < ...
... never

Groups of elements with a common parent that move forwar...
Every stacking context has a single HTML element as its ...
New stacking contexts can be formed on an element in one ...
When an element is the root element of a document (the < ...
... never

For some time now, we’ve been using various technologi... store text within a web browser. Now with the contentedi... things have got a whole lot easier. In this article, I‮.. this attribute is for, how it works, and how we can take...

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect.
The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

I felt like Will Smith in "Enemy of the State." I was be... harassed and stalked by criminals with technological exp... thrust into an unexpected war. I felt exposed, vulnerabl... front line. I had awoken a hideous network of villains a... were in pur

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Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro (Creative Commons)
The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this ...

That can’t happen.
That doesn’t happen on my machine.
That shouldn’t happen.
Why does that happen?
... How did that ever work?

Regardless of setting, here are the typical steps my col...
Forage: Find existing snippets of code to build my p ...
Tinker: Play with these pieces of existing code to a ...
Weld: Try to attach ("weld") pieces of existing code ...
... repeat

Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava

The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces...
Alternative

Konekta is an open development initiative focused on the... community web services that meet social needs. The proje... Development Goals and the objectives of Primary Health C...
The Konekta project is rooted in experience gained from ...
We're inter

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Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
EyeWire
People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

Why use a task runner?
In one word: automation. The less work you have to do wh ...

menu-aim is a jQuery plugin for dropdown menus that can ... between a user trying hover over a dropdown item vs tryi... a submenu's contents.
menu-aim assumes that you are using a menu with submenus ...

How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
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If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
image
If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.