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Coffeescript gotchas (part 3): Switch statement and loops
May 23, 2015 · 3 min read
Welcome to the third part of Coffeescript gotchas. If you haven’t yet read the first and second part of the series I strongly recommend to have a look. The main topic today...
Coffeescript gotchas (part 2): Operators and aliases
July 17, 2014 · 4 min read
For this second part of the series, we’ll dig into CoffeeScript operators and their aliases, which make our lives easier and our code much cleaner and more expressive. In case you missed...
CoffeeScript gotchas (part 1): Comments, strings, booleans, arrays and functions
June 25, 2014 · 4 min read
In the last couple of months I took some time to learn and work on a CoffeeScript project. Writing CoffeeScript is a lot of fun, and if you know plain Javascript you...
Gulp boilerplate for web designers
February 17, 2014 · 2 min read
Two weeks ago, I published a Grunt.js boilerplate with common tasks for web designers. This week I’m trying out the new kid on the block, gulp. Gulp is also a node-based task...
Grunt boilerplate for web designers
January 29, 2014 · 1 min read
Hi all, I’m very happy to announce my first grunt project that will definitely help you if you are a web designer. What I tried to accomplish was to build a grunt...
My sublime text plugin list
December 23, 2013 · 1 min read
Sublime text is my text editor of choice for many reasons. It’s super fast and responsive, it’s available for many OS (I use it in both Linux and Windows) and finally it...
Developer Tools and Console tips
December 16, 2013 · 3 min read
You can save a huge amount of time simply by learning to use the development tools (all modern browsers have them). Below I’m demonstrating some nice tricks that I’m sure will help...
How to add iPhone / iPad startup images (splashscreens)
September 24, 2013 · 1 min read
We’ve seen how you can add custom touch icons for iPhone/iPad use (if you need more information have a look at Mathias Bynens excellent article on this topic) but did you know...
Ambrosia 'speaks' French, Serbian and Romanian
September 11, 2013 · 1 min read
I just wanted to dedicate this post to the generous translators of the Ambrosia theme. The theme made it to version 1.1.5 and although I maintain it (making sure it works with...
Get element's tagname using DOM's tagName property
September 3, 2013 · 1 min read
A couple of weeks ago I posted how can you get an element’s tagname using jQuery’s .prop() method. A simpler alternative could be the below code: $(el).get(0).tagName.toLowerCase(); // example $("#someElement").get(0).tagName.toLowerCase(); The .get() method (don’t confuse...