Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections o... by national and local governments, research institutions... organisations which collect a lot of data. With its powe... faceting, users can browse and find the data they need, ... using maps,

Firefox 3.5 introduces support for DOM workers. These a... that can be easily created and can send messages back to... Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() c... specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

Firefox 3.5 introduces support for DOM workers. These a... that can be easily created and can send messages back to... Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() c... specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

Hello World sample embedding application
The following code is a very simple application that sho ...

The Web Applications Working Group within the W3C has pr... Access Control for Cross-Site Requests recommendation, w...
This access control standard is supported by Firefox 3.5 ...
* Invocations of the XMLHttpRequest API in a cross-s ...
* Web F

The Web Applications Working Group within the W3C has pr... Access Control for Cross-Site Requests recommendation, w...
This access control standard is supported by Firefox 3.5 ...
* Invocations of the XMLHttpRequest API in a cross-s ...
* Web F

Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web... without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is ... called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed ... with a single web application. It doesn’t have the men... other accou

Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web... without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is ... called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed ... with a single web application. It doesn’t have the men... other accou

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

The web community is eagerly seeking a light-weight, tem...
JavaServer Faces UIComponents are first class citizens w ...
Facelets includes many features such as:
* Works with JSF 1.1 and JSF 1.2, including Sun's RI ...
... ith JSF as a suitable platf

The web community is eagerly seeking a light-weight, tem...
JavaServer Faces UIComponents are first class citizens w ...
Facelets includes many features such as:
* Works with JSF 1.1 and JSF 1.2, including Sun's RI ...
... ith JSF as a suitable platf

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with o... are git repositories, so they are automatically versione... usable as a git repository.

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with o... are git repositories, so they are automatically versione... usable as a git repository.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Blueprints is a collection of interfaces, implementation... and test suites for the property graph data model. Bluep... to the JDBC, but for graph databases. As such, it provid... interfaces to allow developers to plug-and-play their gr... backend. Mo

Blueprints is a collection of interfaces, implementation... and test suites for the property graph data model. Bluep... to the JDBC, but for graph databases. As such, it provid... interfaces to allow developers to plug-and-play their gr... backend. Mo

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...

Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete.

The JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) project aims ... technology-based applications ("Java applications") firs... of current desktop platforms without sacrificing platfor... Its mission is to enable seamless desktop/Java integration.

The EventSource enabler allows you to use the upcoming E...
The Event Source API allows you to generate JavaScript e ...
To use the EventSource enabler, simply include the enabl ...
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://eventsource.l ...
You're read

The EventSource enabler allows you to use the upcoming E...
The Event Source API allows you to generate JavaScript e ...
To use the EventSource enabler, simply include the enabl ...
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://eventsource.l ...
You're read

Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library fo... interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it h... features most developers ever need.
Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usa ...

LibreShot.com (former freepix.eu) is a project that cont... photos for private and commercial use. All photos and th... made by me and you can use my photos without attribution... really appreciate a link to Libreshot 🙂

The world of civic tech has changed radically in the las... of the old bastions of transparency and civic innovation... crumble, shrinking dramatically in both size and scope. ... the future of civic tech will appear radically different... from under

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).