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Back in February I released deeptissuejs , a HTML5, JavaScript touch gesture library. In January I release panoramajs a HTML5, JavaScript library to implement the basic Windows Phone panorama control experience. This month I am excited to release another
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It was 5 maybe 6 years ago when I first started learning jQuery. One of the first things I did was order the jQuery In Action book . If you have read that book you should remember one of the first examples given, zebra striping a table. To me this example
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By now you should know that I am constantly on the lookout for cool and bad features implemented by web sites all the time. Last week I was reading some posts on Christian Hielman's blog . As I passed my mouse over the navigation on the right I noticed
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There is so much we can do with web pages that were overly complicated just a few years ago. Thanks for CSS3 Transforms we can do some really cool effects. Today I want to show how to create a vertical menu, or a menu rotated -90 degrees so instead of
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A few years ago I had to painfully admit I was really lost when it came to what today I call modern web development. I decided I had to change, I had to get myself up to speed and I had to relearn things. Working with ASP.NET WebForms since Beta 1 really
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There are so many problems caused by images when it comes to web performance, or even native apps for that matter. There is a balance that must be met when it comes to considering images and modern web applications. We want beautiful and engaging applications
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I find myself needing to overlay HTML elements off and on such as a photo caption on top of a photo. The technique to accomplish is very simple and does not require anything we have not has available for years. First create two markup elements. For my
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If you know me you know I am a fanatic about application performance and that I am a big fan of Steve Souders and the practice of web performance optimization (WPO). In the past I have recommended both High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites
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Last week Microsoft released version 2 of one of my favorite web development tools, WebMatrix. You can download the latest Web Matrix version (2) right now and get started. The latest version of WebMatrix has added many new features that put it on par
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Struggle isn't exactly the right term. More like prolonged torture describes the frustration and experience I have had with some CSS concepts. Let's face it CSS is more of an art than some place where engineers can thrive. But time, practice and just
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If you know me you know over the past few years I have been a big fan of Metro UI and the tiles. I have been hacking at doing the Metro UI in web applications for a while now, so there are a lot of things I have learned, and some I have not quite mastered
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Today I am going to review how I implement the genre and album details mobile web pages. Both pages present layout decisions opportunities needed to maximize the mobile experience. I am also going to utilize touch for a nice effect and plugin. Part 1
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Yesterday I started a new series to build a mobile web version of the MVC Music Store reference application. In part 2 of my series of making a mobile version of the MVC Music store I am going to create the core mobile layout. This requires adding a new
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I can’t tell you how many times in the past I have wanted to rotate or skew an element in a web page. For the past year or so I have seen some really great examples of using the CSS3 Transforms module in other browsers, but not IE9. In reality the examples
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This year MIX is letting you, the community, determine some of the content available during the conference. I, along with many others submitted different sessions to be voted on by, well anyone! You can choose up to 5 sessions . Voting closes on January
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