NYC, 1981. An original short documentary featuring stories from one of the most dangerous years on record for New York City. Nicely done. Also love that typical NYC accent by the guy wearing the red barret.
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The ServiceWorker is coming, look busy!
Look at the apps on your homescreen. Why are they native? Why aren’t they just on the web? Its usually some combination of push messaging, background sync, offline & performance. When native has something the web doesn’t, we should consider it a bug. Let’s have a look at the fixes, focusing on the ServiceWorker. By …
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Why Game Developers Should Care about HTML5
I’m at Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland) right now for the “International iWeek”, organized by the Faculty of Technology. Today I gave two sessions entitled “Why Game Developers Should Care about HTML5”, a reprise of a talk I first did back in 2013. You can check out the slides embedded below. Slides with presenter …
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SecurityHeaders.com
Run a free test of a website’s HTTP headers and learn how it performs from a security perspective! Checks for the following headers and their values: Access Control Allow Origin Content Security Policy Cross Domain Meta Policy NoSniff Server Information Strict Transport Security UTF-8 Character Encoding X-Frame-Options X-Powered-By X-XSS-Protection SecurityHeaders.com →
Deploying Your Ionic App to Heroku
Not much to it actually, as you only need Express to serve your Ionic app: // server.js, Heroku will autostart this when found var express = require(‘express’), app = express(); app.use(express.static(‘www’)); app.set(‘port’, process.env.PORT || 5000); app.listen(app.get(‘port’), function () { console.log(‘Express server listening on port ‘ + app.get(‘port’)); }); Deploying Your Ionic App to Heroku →
Chrome M40: The Virtual Viewport
The idea of the virtual viewport is to split the notion of “the viewport” into two, “the layout viewport” (where fixed position items are attached) and “the visual viewport” (What the users actually see). In the screenshots above you can cleary see this in action: without a virtual viewport it’s not possible to view right …
$cordovaHealthKit – Accessing and Modifying HealthKit data from within Cordova/Ionic
Front-end Job Interview Questions
Brilliant — BRILLIANT! — and extensive list of questions to vet potential front-end developers during their job interview. Ranges from simple questions to some very in-depth ones. A few examples: What did you learn yesterday/this week? Name 3 ways to decrease page load (perceived or actual load time). Can you explain the difference between GET …