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Dear iOS developer, please collect the garbage (the other one)
Paper basket image by oskaline via Flickr Some time ago I wrote a blog post about fixing slow iTunes backup. The article became the by far most visited one on this blog and we are still getting tons...
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7 things to do first when starting with FDT4
Recently I upgraded to FDT4. Well, not exactly upgraded since I downloaded a fresh Eclipse version (for using FDT as plug-in) and created a new workspace. Here 7 things essential for me to start...
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Don’t comment your code!
stackoverflow.com … unless you know what you do. The problem Since I started programming I have always been fighting with “strange” code comments. Everyone told me I had to document my code. Also I...
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Optimizing “overflow:scroll” on iOS5 [UPDATE]
With the never webkit builds on iOS5 and Android ICS finally overflow:scroll works as expected. On iOS you also have the “native” scroll bounce, which is huge IMHO (with bounce I mean the ease when...
View ArticleDo not “learn” jQuery, learn backbone.js and require.js
So you wanna join the little HTML5 party some of us are having? Great! It’s not that packed yet, quite comfortable actually. And the main gigs haven’t even played yet. So no, you’re not late. Quite one...
View ArticleHow to save the positions of annotations in epubs (or html)
The biggest advantage of ebooks over printed ones is – of course – that there are no more fixed pages. Every device can decide how it wants to display the content. With digital books it is possible to...
View ArticleOctopress/Jekyll + S3 + CloudFront + gzip
We recently moved this blog from WordPress to Octopress. Static pages FTW! And because we have static pages we want to use every CDN power we can get. We choose to use AWS CloudFront. There are some...
View Articleweekly digest #1
Today we are starting a new type of post: a weekly digest of articles, videos or just links we stumbled upon during the last week. They don’t have to be brand-new, hyped or hot on Hacker News to get...
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Mobile performance and how it suffers from 3rd party content
Nowadays, when you talk to a web developer about building a (mobile) website, performance is one of the topics that comes up quickly. This is absolutely great and we have to say ‘thank you’ to a bunch...
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Second week of our link collection – some old, some new. But each one worth your time. Of course. Happy reading. DevSwag Get stickers from open source projects. Support and promote them. YOU MIGHT NOT...
View ArticleTo use jQuery or not to use jQuery, that is the question
There was a lot of buzz around YOU MIGHT NOT NEED JQUERY the last couple of days – we also mentioned it in our weekly digest #2 from last monday. YMNNJ is a collection of vanilla JavaScript snippets...
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This week’s digest is about optimization – how to get more out of mobile performance, Responsive Web Design, your tools, your daily working hours and JS in general. Happy reading. Responsive Web Design...
View Articlesalt'n'pepper - or how to store passwords securely
Just yesterday I received an email from kickstarter telling me that their database servers were hacked and that someone was able to access all my account data: Accessed information included usernames,...
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This issue of our weekly digest has a bit of everything: performance, tools, security – audio, video, text … Happy reading, watching, listening. Cookieless Domain vs. DNS lookups Finally some stats...
View Articlegruntjs and its plugins
… or even more suitable: “plugin mess”. But I’ll start at the beginning. I wanted to take look at Grunt for a while now. Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I ran into a problem that I couldn’t overcome...
View Articleread later #5
Our “weekly digest” is now “read later” – because it wasn’t really weekly and most of the links were older anyway. So, without further ado, here are the links: Edge conference videos are online “Relive...
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GitHub Cheat Sheet While top 5 Ejmojis on GitHub are most important. :smile: RegExr v2.0 Very nice rework by Grant Skinner and his team. node core vs userland IMO the most important node paradigm....
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Welcome back! What Is Functional Programming? Must read. Which Programming Languages Are Functional? Must read (continued). the changelog #187 With Dan Abramov, creator of redux.
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read later #8
A tidy, linear Git history It’s challenging the keep the commit history clean when the team grows. This is one solution, Aron uses it at MixedZone and is very happy with it. How to Rebase a Pull...
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Building a node web app at scale with AWS Lambda
Recently I built a web app for the Eurovision Song Contest. Here are the things I would like to have known 6 week ago. Some days into the project Lambda added Node 4.3 support. Previously the only...
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