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If you use a Backbone.js Collection with an integrated LocalStorage to save your models, you might need to empty this collection and the LocalStorage, too. Invoking reset() on the collection does not have the required effect because it does not
Read moreWhen developing websites or hybrid mobile apps, it a good practice to compress your JavaScript and CSS stylesheets to reduce the download and loading effort / time. The Yahoo User Interface project YUI provides the YUI compressor, a good infrastructure
Read moreWe have realized a couple of websites with integrated facebook share / like buttons. Once a while we noticed that the facebook share dialog did not recommend any thumbnail images extracted from the current site. Digging a little bit deeper
Read moreUsing ajax to build a website or mobile app provides nice possibilities for a rich user experience. When asynchronly loading new pages/views without changing the navigation, background, or whatever, one needs to parse the new page and inject the new
Read moreEclipse has become a powerful IDE for PHP development. As with most open source projects, eclipse provides multiple options how to use it with php and also how to work with smarty. The available options to work with smarty depends
Read moreSometimes, you have to include an external library in your code base and would like to get updates for this immediately as they are published. For example: you have included the zend framework in your PHP application and would like
Read moreAt this years QCon, wooga gave a pretty interesting talk about their history of making there online games infrastructure more scalable. The slides of this talk are available online: http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2012/slides/JesperRichter-Reichhelm_GamesForTheMassesHowDevOpsAffectsArchitectureDesign.pdf There history led from PHP to Ruby to Redis to
Read moreTypo3 content elements provide an option to automatically present a link back to the top of the page. To ensure this works also with optimized urls (e.g. cooluri) and configurations which clean up your html output, you can use the
Read moreNivoslider provides one of the maturest slider plugins for jQuery. However, you might face problems with the latest release (version 3.0.1) when adding links to the sliding images. While other browsers worked fine, the Internet Explorer does not provide the
Read moreEven in times where UTF-8 has been arrived and is used and supported by a broad range of systems, you will still have to treat files in a lot of different encodings. Especially in data processing systems you will have
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