Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

* Provides the ability to hook into any jQuery.fn[method]
* with onbeforeMETHOD, onMETHOD, and onafterMETHOD.

The altered language significantly weakened the stance that browsers should bypass Content Security Policy for user-supplied add-ons, and suggests that providing the capability for users or add-ons to modify the Content Security Policy is o...

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/494559/The-Slow-Death-of-Bookmarklets

11 Useful Javascript utility libraries to speed your development.

Fabric.js is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas parser.

Character Sets
charset=
Some Basic Ones
charset=big5
... Baltic Alphabet (ISO)

blockquote { margin: 20px 0; padding: 0 20px 0 50px; bac... url('images/quote.png') 5% 0% no-repeat; border: none; }

Death to typewriters

... some of the technical (CSS, JavaScript, Closure) details in Medium’s typography and typesetting. Note: we use LESS, so you will see some light LESS features (mostly variables).

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture for creating OpenURL Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application is a networked service environment, in which packages of information are transported over a network. These ...

Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data comprising more t...

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

Of course I said yes and said my rate would be £75 for the usage (I wasn’t sure on what to charge, so I checked with some professional photographers what the rate was. They all said between £75 and £90, so I went in at the lower end of...

We're a semantic technology company that instantly delivers deep insights from the world's data. Since 2009, we've amassed the world's deepest and most interconnected knowledge graph, encompassing 500 collections, 1 billion entities, 250 bi...

Fabric.js is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas parser.

This tutorial gives a broad view of modern approaches fo... machine learning and data mining methods on parallel/dis... platforms. Demand for scaling up machine learning is tas... some tasks it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, f...
The tutoria

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and re...

1.1. What is Greasemonkey?
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to w ...

Mozilla provides a mechanism which can be used to packag... scripts,
skins and other files into single file installers. You c ...
file somewhere for users to download. A simple script ca ...
downloaded and installed. This mechanism is called XPIns ...

Sadly, animating with JavaScript was limiting and resour... initial foray into an infinitely looping background did ... in my CPU than amaze my friends (although it still looks...
Things are different now. CSS3 transitions and animation ...
In this pro

Sadly, animating with JavaScript was limiting and resour... initial foray into an infinitely looping background did ... in my CPU than amaze my friends (although it still looks...
Things are different now. CSS3 transitions and animation ...
In this pro

Curious about the food Americans eat? Look no further.
Instacart is excited to announce our first public datase ...

Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific machine-readable labels, e.g. to allow generic scripts t... that are customised to the page, or to enable content fr... cooperating authors to be processed by a single script i...
For this pu

86th Birthday Rage

Here, we'll look at additional datasources and how to us... files as datasources.
Other Mozilla Datasources
Mozilla provides a number of other built-in datasources. ...

Last week TechCrunch reported that Channel Intelligence ... based in Florida, had filed a lawsuit for patent infring... against a long list of startups which - get this - offer... products people may want others to buy for them. However... companies d

Global variables are evil. Within YUI, we use only two g... YAHOO_config. Everthing in YUI makes use of members with... object hierarchy or variables that are scoped to such a ... that you exercise similar discipline in your own applica...
Douglas Cro

In the past few years, performance research has become m... thanks to research by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance... Google’s Steve Souders. Most of that research studies ... HTML page, but the resources the page requires to displa...
Although bo

Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking ab...
example sprites
As game complexity increased, techniques developed to ma ...
And what does this have to do with the web?
... the associated “before” and “after” link states.