From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference

Whether we like it or not, more and more developers are being introduced to the world of JavaScript through jQuery first. In many ways, these newcomers are the lucky ones. They have access to a plethora of new JavaScript APIs, which make the process of DOM traversal (something that many folks depend on jQuery for) …

CSS Scroll Snap Points

Great to see this proposed (many people are using it nowadays, boosted by the iPhone 5s page). .gallery { scroll-snap-type: mandatory; scroll-snap-points-x: snapList(786px, 1643px, 2483px, 3264px, 4054px, 4402px); } Don’t like the fact that one needs to specify explicit values (be it in pixels, ems, or percentages), as not all children can be of the …

Backup local MySQL Databases

Nice script by Xavez. Put it in a daily cronjob if you like, or extend it to copy the backup to another machine: #!/bin/bash # Path to where you want to backup mysql databases. opath=/Users/username/Sites/Backups/mysql/ # Local mysql details. Make a username with only read access. Allow SELECT, LOCK TABLES. mysqlhost=127.0.0.1 username=read_only_user password=read_only_password # Get …

Cutting down on vendor prefixes

There are a bunch of CSS properties that we can safely stop using vendor prefixes for, or at least considerably cut down on the number of prefixes. No need to provide vendor prefixes for all versions ever of all browsers ever nowadays. Take CSS3 transitions for example. The code below will do just fine in …