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In light of #https2015 I flipped the switch on bram.us earlier today: from today forth bram.us is only accessible over HTTPS. If you run a news site, or any site at all, we’d like to issue a friendly challenge to you. Make a commitment to have your site fully on HTTPS by the end of …
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Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two. Late yesterday, some of its primary developers “forked” this open source project, creating a new version of the tool they call Io.js. The group was unhappy with the stewardship of Node’s official sponsor, cloud computing company Joyent, so …
JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications and libraries from their native executable format – CIL bytecode – into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. You can take this JavaScript and run it in a web browser or any other modern JavaScript runtime. Unlike other cross-compiler tools targeting JavaScript, JSIL produces readable, easy-to-debug JavaScript that resembles the …
The Specificity Graph is a very simple model for diagrammatically assessing the overall health of your codebase in terms of specificity—a way of looking at an entire project’s CSS and highlighting any potentially troublesome areas of higher-than-ideal specificity. We can then use this snapshot to refactor and rearchitect old projects into a better shape, or …
phpspec is a development tool, designed to help you achieve clean and working PHP code by using a technique derived from test-first development called (spec) behaviour driven development, or SpecBDD. Example spec file: <?php namespace spec; use PhpSpec\ObjectBehavior; class MarkdownSpec extends ObjectBehavior { function it_converts_plain_text_to_html_paragraphs() { $this->toHtml("Hi, there")->shouldReturn("<p>Hi, there</p>"); } } Running it is easy: …