An introduction to some of the new JavaScript features in ES6 (now called ES2015), with code examples comparing common ES5 patterns to the new ES6 equivalents.
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About Dougal Campbell
Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.
Free Stock Photos - Search 24 Sites With Stock Up
Stock Up aggregates several free stock photography sites into one search engine.
LoopBack: A Powerful Node API Framework | Toptal
A walkthrough tutorial for creating a REST API service using the LoopBack framework.
LoopBack
LoopBack is a framework for building REST APIs. From StrongLoop, the folks that brought us the express framework.
ios - how to get Distance of Object from iPhone camera using image Exif meta data? - Stack Overflow
With a few facts about your camera’s sensor, if you know the size of an object in your photo, you can calculate how far it was from the camera when the photo was taken.
ios – how to get Distance of Object from iPhone camera using image Exif meta data? – Stack Overflow
A Rant
Jul252015
Once upon a time, before the Facebooks and Twitters and Reddits and MySpaces, there was Usenet. And on Usenet, flaming and trolling was an art form. It wasn’t just a bunch of angry, shocking, monkeys on keyboards. Trolls were subtle. Flames were eloquent and surgically precise. Then in the early 90s, they opened the internet up to the general public, and it became Amateur Hour. Newcomers, with no knowledge of the existing culture, nor the … Continue reading
React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By · React for Designers
A good beginner ReactJS tutorial for entry-level programmers who aren’t already experts with JavaScript.
React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By · React for Designers
Performance Calendar » React’s diff algorithm
An overview of how ReactJS uses its virtual DOM, diffing, and event delegation to achieve its performance.
CSS Image Replacement Museum
A historical retrospective of various CSS text/image replacement techniques, with notes about the pros and cons of each.
most.js: Monadic Reactive Streams
Yet another library bringing functional programming concepts to JavaScript. The most.js library lets you handle events like a stream, allows you to compose streams, etc.