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A Case Study on Boosting Front-End Performance

At De Voorhoede we try to boost front-end performance as much as possible for our clients. It is not so easy to convince every client to follow all of our performance guidelines. (more: CSS Tricks)

Using Feature Queries in CSS

With @supports, you can write a small test in your CSS to see whether or not a particular "feature" (CSS property or value) is supported, and apply a block of code (or not) based on the answer. (more: Mozilla Hacks)

Practical SVG

Sizing svg is a little more complicated than sizing an img. I'm not saying this to scare you. It's almost complicated in a good way, because it gives you more control and opens up some interesting possibilities. (more: A List Apart)

The target="_blank" vulnerability by example

If you use the target="_blank" attribute on a link, and do not accompany it with a rel="noopener" attribute, you are leaving your users open to a very simple phishing attack. (more: Ben Halpern)

8 Clever Tricks with CSS Functions

CSS is capable of much more than many web developers realise. The stylesheet language continues to get more and more powerful with every passing year, bringing functionality to the browser that otherwise would be fulfilled by JavaScript. (more: Sitepoint)

Upgrading CSS Animation With Motion Curves

There is UI animation, and then there is good UI animation. (more: Smashing Magazine)

The State Of JavaScript: Front-End Frameworks

I've been very impressed with the success of my State Of JavaScript survey so far. After barely three days, the survey already has over 3000 responses. So I thought it'd be interesting to see what preliminary insights we can extract from that data. (more: Medium)

Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

As a part of our continuous effort to simplify the daily workflow for developers, we are today enabling mobile web developers to debug JavaScript running on their iOS devices directly from their editor, with our new iOS Web Debugger for Visual Studio Code. (more: Web diagnostics and tools blog)

New articles added

Applications & Tools

TraceHub, a flexible solution for Web based structured logging

(4 votes) by Zijian (updated 3 days ago)

Overview of TraceHub, and the design concepts/contexts behind this open source project

ASP.NET

Detailed Knowledge Of Filters In ASP.NET MVC 5 In Step By Step Process: Part One

(3 votes) by Vignesh Mani (updated yesterday)

This article explains about how to create custom filters and user defined filters in ASP.NET MVC 5 in Step by Step way.

C#

Video Streaming using Entity Framework and HTML5 in MVC5

(3 votes) by Sachin Makwana (updated 4 days ago)

Storing uploaded videos ( MP4 ) to database using Entity Framework. Streaming stored videos using HTML5 video tag in MVC5

Generating Facebook Like Preview using Regular Expression

(3 votes) by Sachin Makwana (updated 3 days ago)

Download page as HTML string. Parse it using regex and extract desired contents to generate Facebook Like Preview.

IDNameObjects API

(1 votes) by Igor Krein (updated 3 days ago)

C# Extensions API for Entity Framework intended to simplify usage of drop-down lists, comboboxes and alike

Client side scripting

Angular 2 custom component with validation for bank account number

(0 votes) by bob.bumsuk.lee (updated 1 hour ago)

Building Angular 2 attribute directive and component to capture and validate bank account number in a form

Learning Custom Directives In AngularJS: A Practical Approach

(0 votes) by Vikas Sharma (updated 2 hours ago)

In this article, I will be explaining the core concept of AngularJS that is Directives.

Desktop Gadgets

Transform Clipboard Contents Between Copy and Paste

(4 votes) by Brad Joss (updated 3 days ago)

Alter your clipboard contents before pasting to automate tasks.

HTML / CSS

Build Component Based Website

(1 votes) by Modesty Zhang (updated yesterday)

Stateless functional components make building a multi-page website a breeze.

Libraries

The Clifton Method - Part IV

(2 votes) by Marc Clifton (updated 4 days ago)

The Semantic Publisher/Subscriber

PHP

Pass Arguments and Execute R script from PHP Forms: Discrete Event Simulation Example.

(8 votes) by MohamedKamalPharm (updated 4 days ago)

Simple tutorial illustrating steps required for running R script from PHP and passing arguments from web interface to be consumed by R and output the results to different files residing on Ubuntu Server with corresponding markup on PHP web page. An example of discrete event simulation is used.