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What is Gist ?

What is Gist ?

Gist is a simple way to store and share your code snippets. This powerful tool was made by the awesome GitHub team. One thing what makes Gist better then the other competitors is the fact the your code snippets (gists) are all git repositories, so your code is automatically versioned, formable and usable as a git repository. This unique feature makes Gist a really good service.

Jan 10, 2013 gist, github, snippet 0 Comment

Google web font performance

Google web font performance

Google Web Fonts is a free web font embedding service launched by Google in 2010. Google currently offers more than 570 font families and counting, each with an Open Source license which means you can use fonts freely on any personal or commercial project. Google does a decent job of optimising and serving these fonts to the end user but as web developers we can make it even better with some quick improvements. Read More…

Nov 21, 2012 performance, web font 0 Comment

When to use return false; and when preventDefault();

When to use return false; and when preventDefault();

When to use return false; and when preventDefault(); ? In this post I will try to explain what is the difference between return false; and preventDefault();. At the end of this post I’m pretty sure you will know the answer. Read More…

Oct 4, 2012 javascript, jquery 2 Comments

IE Alert version 2

IE Alert version 2

I introduced the IE Alert jQuery plugin a few months ago since then it was downloaded more than 1390 times and it was featured on many websites and blogs, even Smashing Magazine tweeted about it once. It’s a huge success for me and I’m really happy that some websites already using it. The second version I tried to make even better, faster and better looking. Read More…

Sep 7, 2012 jquery, plugin 9 Comments

jQuery’s fast and slow in milliseconds

jQuery’s fast and slow in milliseconds

Ever wondered how long the animation will run when you declare the duration with fast or slow in jQuery ? Read More…

Jul 10, 2012 duration, jquery, quick tip 0 Comment

The :not() CSS3 selector

The :not() CSS3 selector

Interestingly there isn’t a lot of information about the :not() CSS3 selector on the web, so I will try to cover everything what I know about this selector and I will show some practical example where it comes handy. Read More…

Jun 25, 2012 css3, negation, not, selector 0 Comment

The CSS3 Filter property

The CSS3 Filter property

The long awaited CSS3 Filter property was recently landed in webkit, currently it’s only supported in Chrome (18.0 +) and Safari (5.1 +) with the -webkit- prefix but surely other browsers will join to support the filter property. Now let’s look at what is the CSS3 filter property, how the syntax looks and how to use it. Read More…

Jun 25, 2012 css3, filter 0 Comment

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