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- Sep 16 2010
JavaScript Web Workers: Support & Testing The Browser
In case you’re not yet familiar, the JavaScript Web Workers API is a feature that facilitates the execution of scripts in an independent background process, away from any UI related logic. It should be assumed that the Worker’s life-cycle is the same as the application that called it, as it comes with start-up and instance […]
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JavaScript Web Workers: Support & Testing The Browser - Sep 03 2010
Apache: Could not bind address to port (make_sock)
If you’re upgrading server software, or changing your port config, you may accidentally Funk your Wagnalls. You’ll know the error when you try to restart apache. ~: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting web server apache2 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8080 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open […]
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- Sep 01 2010
Social Primitives for A Brave New Web
The Facebook Thing Facebook has had a lot of press recently. Growing by a million users a day, playing the patent game like every other large corporation, seemingly constant legal-disputes over ownership, and to top it off.. the Facebook movie called “The Social Network” will be hitting the big-screen this October. A lot of people […]
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- Aug 29 2010
jQuery: Fastest Way To Select Nothing
As I become more and more obsessed with Quora, I’m finding more and more questions that I answer seem to feel right as standalone blog posts. The latest even includes an interesting discovery: What’s the cleanest way to intentionally and reliably return a jQuery object that selects nothing? There were two answers already posted to […]
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- web applications
- Aug 27 2010
JavaScript IS Object Oriented Programming
I spent a good half hour writing an answer to a question on Quora today and I thought it was good enough to qualify as a blog post. The question was How do you implement object orientation in JavaScript? I’ll be honest, I was a little disappointed by the answers posted prior to mine, however […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript IS Object Oriented Programming - Aug 26 2010
JavaScript: Creating an EventSource within a Worker
After spending the day finishing out cross-browser EventSource support in the form of jQuery.EventSource.js, then wrapping up with a commit of 55 new unit tests, I finally left the Bocoup Loft for the day around 8 o’clock… But as most developers know, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t leave this kind of […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: Creating an EventSource within a Worker - Aug 25 2010
JavaScript: YakYakFace.com uses jQuery.EventSource
For those of you curious about what can be created or where to use the new JavaScript EventSource API (also known as “Server Sent Events” ) – I’ve developed a very basic chat application that uses jQuery.EventSource.js to provide a simple API to native EventSource where available (and a fallback when not) and Twitter @anywhere […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: YakYakFace.com uses jQuery.EventSource - Aug 24 2010
10K Event Apart Submission: Pictocalypse 10k
Here we are, in the 11th Hour of submission for the 10K Event Apart contest. I just submitted my application, which weighs in at a grand total of 3991 Bytes… or it did, but after I submitted it I was still able to shave off a few more bytes, for a final total of 3676Bytes […]
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- Aug 17 2010
Webkit Radial Gradients
I started to play around with the inset value of the CSS3 box-shadow property over at boaz.se/nder/s.miscellaneous/i-<3-inset after maxvoltar posted about it. I started working with the CSS3 gradient property to achieve the effect reproduced here, and I ran into some serious syntax confusion. Whereas Gecko offers a terse verbose syntax for radial gradients, Webkit […]
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- Aug 10 2010
jQuery Twitter Search Feed
I wrote a dead simple twitter search API implementation with jQuery for bocoup.com yesterday. Everything is explained in the comments. Hopefully this script helps you implement your own twitter feed. You can see the live demo running off to the right. jQuery.twitterFeed.js $(function(){ // Get the JSON of your twitter search, it helps to format […]
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