Building a Cordova based mobile application recently at work we were facing an issue with an application size that was literally growing by the day. The project leveraged a lot of PNG templates sent to us by the design department and these template files were contributing about 50mb to the…
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Debugging Web Applications With Fiddler On Linux
Fiddler is by far one of the most popular web debugging proxies available. It allows you to capture, examine, save, edit and replay all HTTP / HTTPS requests made by a web based application. For many years it was available only on Windows systems. But recently the creator of Fiddler,…
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Installing Safari on Linux Mint 15
Cross browser testing your sites is unfortunately a necessary evil. Installing virtual machines with the required browsers installed is one way to test your code. But a lot of the time I don’t want to wait for a VM to boot just to quickly test something. In this article I…
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A Quick Look At Animate.css
I was browsing github today when I came across the very interesting Animate.css repository. Animate.css provides a bunch of cool cross browser CSS3 based animations under an MIT licence that you can use in your own projects with minimal effort. First things first you need to get a copy and…
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You will now access javascript:Recaptcha.reload();
I was looking at a Whitehouse petition earlier today asking that Patent trolls be made to pay all costs associated with their lawsuits if they lose when I can across the gem below. Although I do appreciate the site keeping me in the loop on what its about to access…
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Empty Directories In Git
Occasionally when working on a code base the application at hand requires a directory for the storage of log files, uploads etc. You often like to keep the directory itself in the repository but you don’t want any of its contents that have a temporary lifespan making their way into…
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Executing PHP Code Server Side In .html Files
On a recent project we needed to provide a client our contribution to the site code base as static .html files. To make the development process easier though a number of the developers wanted to include some of the global page assets such as the header and footer using PHP…
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Debugging Mobile Web Pages With Opera Developer Tools
If experience has taught me anything its that debugging mobile pages can be a massive pain. Replicating page display issues without a device on hand can prove problematic, and something as simply as testing a number of URL’s can become very time consuming using a touch screen keyboard to enter…
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Mirroring a website with wget
Clueless clients and bad briefs can make a developers life very difficult at times so sometimes it comes in handy to be able to replicate a site in its entirety to review. Rsync could be used to mirror the files to a local location but it doesn’t really fit this…
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Sorting tabular data with tableSorter
The jQuery tableSorter script is one of those indispensable scripts for a web developer, as most applications have a need to display tabular data to the user at some place in their application. The problem is displaying this data in some sort of user friendly format. The main problem is…
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