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Appliness #14 – May
In this issue, we feature an interview of Faruk Ates, plus tutorials for web developers:
- Preventing the Performance Hit from Custom Fonts, by Chris Coyier
- Building a Unit Test in Jasmine, by David Posin
- Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build Part 1, by Brian Rinaldi
- Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build Part 2, by Brian Rinaldi
- Interview of Faruk Ates. by Maile Valentine
- Animation Techniques for the Web, by David Deraedt
- PhoneGap Legends – A Sample Game App, by Andy Trice
- Reflow – My Top 10 Features, by Michael Chaize
- Store Application Data in the Cloud with Parse.com and the JavaScript SDK, by Christophe Coenraets
- I Know jQuery. Now What?, by Remy Sharp
- A Successful Git Branching Model, by Vincent Driessen
- Super Easy Angular Image Gallery, by Glenn Gervais
Appliness #13 – April
In this issue, we feature an interview of Chris Coyier, plus tutorials for web developers:
- Secrets of Awesome JS API Design, by Brandon Satrom
- asm.js: closing the gap between JavaScript and native, by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- Functions Explained, by Mark Dagget
- Fun with AngularJS, by Holly Schinsky
- Building a Unit Test in Jasmine, Part 3. by David Posin
- Using white space for readability in HTML and CSS, by Louis Lazaris
- Interview of Chris Coyier, by Maile Valentine
- A responsive boilerplate, by Fernando Monteiro
- The Progress element, by Ian Devlin
- Dig Deep into CSS Linear Gradients, by Ana Tudor
- The Problem of CSS Form Elements, by Gabriele Romanato
- PhoneGap Q&A, by Christophe Coenraets
Appliness #12 – March
In this issue, we feature an interview of Lea Verou, the W3C champion, plus tutorials for web developers:
- Building a Node.JS Server that won’t melt, by Lloyd Hilaiel
- Advanced CSS3 2D and 3D Transform techniques, by Syed Fazle Rahman
- Learning from the Brackets open source code, by Brian Rinaldi
- Infinite scroll to load more content pagination with jQuery, by Johnny Simpson
- Productive Enterprise Web Development, by Viktor Gamov
- Using CSS Media Queries as a data transport, by David Posin
- Angular and XML? No problem, by Glenn Gervais
- Getting started with anvil.js, by Jonathan Creamer
- Building a Unit test in Jasmine, by David Posin
- Easy PhoneGap Push notifications with Pushwoosh, by Holly Schinsky
- Up and running with Modernizr, by Chris Griffith
- Playing with SVG and JavaScript, by Raymond Camden
- Book of the month: the mobile book, by Smashing Magazine
- News by Brian Rinaldi
Appliness #11 – February
Table of contents:
- Deferreds and Promises in JavaScript, by Flavio Copes
- jQuery Mobile and Backbone.JS Integration with a simple FAQ app, by Thibault Durand
- Bacon.JS by Ville Lautanala
- Building a Unit test in Jasmine, by David Posin
- Bubbling in Enyo, by David Posin
- The future of JavaScript, by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- Webkit inspector, by Flavio Copes
- My workflow for developing PhoneGap applications, by Andrew Trice
- Android push notifications with PhoneGap, by Holly Schinsky
- Interview of Misko Hevery
- Building huge apps with angularJS, by Brian Ford
- Responsive Form Validation with AngularJS, by Glenn Gervais
- Using Form Elements and CSS3 to replace Javascript, by Louis Lazaris
- Conditional loading of resources with Media-queries, by Christian Heilmann
- Icons and Icon fonts, by Bear Travis
- Making the Transition from Development to Design, by P.J. Onori
- Design is not Veneer, by Aral Balkan
- News, by BrianRinaldi
Appliness #10 – January
Table of contents:
- JavaScript function invocation patterns, by Barry Steyn
- Best practices when working with JavaScript templates, by Andrew Burgess
- Arrays in JavaScript, by Dr. Axel Raschmeyer
- Hello AngularJS, by Glenn Gervais
- Geo pushed notifications, by Holly Schinsky
- PhoneGap and Force.com, by Piotr Walczyszyn
- Google Maps Custom Markers, by Ray Camden
- Developing PhoneGap Application, by Christophe Coenraets
- Grunt build tool for front-end developers, by Frederic Hemberger
- CSS calc by David Walsh
- About Web Standards, by Mihai Corlan
- CSS Next by Divya Manian
- Bubbling in Enyo by David Posin
- CSS things that don’t occupy space, by Louis Lazaris
- History management in the browser by Ray Camden
- News by Brian Rinaldi
Appliness #9 – December
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Table of contents:
- JavaScript function invocation patterns, by Barry Steyn
- Writing fast JavaScript, by Addy Osmani
- Why I chose SASS, by Kianosh Pourian
- Collie, by Sangmin Shim
- Plugging into Socket.IO: advanced, by Joe Zimmerman
- Dynamically loading CSS based on weather conditions, by Ray Camden
- JS adolescence, by James Padosley
- Interview of Kevin Lynch, CTO at Adobe
- Designing JS APIs, by Brett van Zuiden
- Fun with built-in CSS filters, by CJ Gammon
- Getting started with JavaScript maps, by Antanas Marcelionis
- Building your first Brackets Extension, by David Deraedt
- Clearing floats, by Louis Lazaris
- iPad Mini detection, by Maximiliano Firtman
- Embed PhoneGap as a subview, by Holly Schinsky
- Responsive menu concepts, by Tim Pietrusky
- JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of, by Nicholas C. Zakas
- News about HTML and JavaScript, by Brian Rinaldi
Appliness #8 – November
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Table of contents:
- 8 tips for Angular.JS beginners by Sudhanshu Raheja
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- JavaScript: Operators by Dmitry Baranovskiy
- Delay initialization with jQuery delegation by Joe Zimmerman
- Interview of Jeremie Patonnier – CSS and SVG expert
- Apple Push notifications with PhoneGap – by Holly Schinsky
- Does JavaScript need classes ? by Nicholas Zakas
- Native scrolling – by Piotr Walczyszyn
- Interview of Paul D. Hunt – the font designer of Source Code Pro
- Node.JS, Require and Export by Karl Seguin
- PhoneGap, Apple rejections and UX Guidelines by Andrew Trice
- Why are preprocessors so divise? by Kianosh Pourian
- Hacking JavaScript’s format paramters by Jeremy Kahn
- Using Yeoman with Angular.JS by Brian Ford
- Interview of Addy Osmani – the modern Yeoman
- 5 HTML5 APIs you didn’t KNOW EXISTED by David Walsh
- Embrace the static web with Punch by Lakshan Perera
- Completure – Showcase of a PhoneGap app
- News by Brian Rinaldi
Appliness #7 – October
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Table of contents:
- Introduction to Yeoman
- JavaScript scoping and hoisting
- Creating a REST API
- Posting data from a PhoneGap app
- Loading data into an iOS Cordova app
- KnockOut.JS and performance
- xPlatform PhoneGap templates
- New APIs of iOS6
- How I ended up enjoying JavaScript
- Categorizing values in JavaScript
- Parse.com JavaScript with offline support
- Web font performance
- Latency
- Chrome networking
- Interview of Ilya Gregorik
- Broadstreet HTML
- Trello
- Interview of Trello
- News
Appliness #6bis – SPECIAL ISSUE – Faces of Adobe
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Table of contents:
- Interview of Arno Gourdol
- Adobe Edge Animate
- Adobe Edge Code
- Interview of Narciso Jaramillo
- Interview of Terry Ryan
- Adobe PhoneGap Build
- Interview of Brian Leroux
- Interview of PhoneGap engineers
- Interview of Bruce Bowman, Edge Inspect
- Adobe Edge Web Fonts
- Preview of Adobe Edge Reflow
Appliness #6 – September 2012
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Table of contents:
- 10 things to know about KnockOutJS
- JavaScript types
- Frozen UI and web workers
- Introduction to JavaScript unit testing
- Styling your app with Twitter Bootstrap
- Tame the mobile web beast
- Apply and Arrays: three tricks
- Creeps and weirdos in the CSS spec
- How to write a well structured CSS – part 1
- JS design pattern: Singleton, Composite and façade
- iOS Safari web apps templates and howtos
- Infinite timeline scrolling chart
- HTML5 multimedia troubleshooting
- Using HTML templates to generate more than HTML
- Interview of Vinvent Hardy
- Rivet.JS
- Showcase og Healthtap
- Interview of Tricycle
- Bleeding Edge: CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions
Appliness #5 – August 2012
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Table of contents:
- Working with files in JavaScript – the basics and advanced features
- Script.JS vs RequireJS: dependency management comparisons
- Updating news items dynamically
- Key principles of maintainable JavaScript
- Social sharing that sucks less with Socialite.js
- Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language
- Local storage example: storing previous searches
- Edge animations as components
- Using semantic HTML
- Example of form validation in a jQuery Mobile application
- Interview of Paul Irish
- JavaScript String methods reference
- Special focus on PhoneGap !!!
- What’s new in PhoneGap 2.0
- Getting Started video tutorials
- PhoneGap open source samples
- Fast PhoneGap development for Android withh AppLaud
- Interview of JoshFire – the PhoneGap and Web masters
- Showcase of BBC Olympics
- News about HTML and JavaScript
Appliness #4 – July 2012
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Table of contents:
- HTML templates with MustacheJS
- Zepto and touch gestures
- A closer look at Undersocre templates
- Writing an AngularJS app with an Express + NodeJS backend
- JavaScript prototypal inheritance for class’ical developers
- Prototypal inheritance and strategies for debugging though problems
- Improving geolocation
- Build a chat with NodeJS and jQuery Mobile
- Building PhoneGap applications powered by Database.com
- Introducing Kendo UI mobile
- MegaList jQuery plugin
- Brackets – the open source code editor for the web
- Brackets – learning from the source
- Interview of Eric Meyer – CSS expert
- CSS filters and effects
- CSS shaders
- CSS Object model
- Introduction to BackStack – a Backbone.JS view navigation library
- Showcase : What the photo?
- News
Appliness #3 – June 2012
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Table of contents:
- Ten CoffeeScript features
- Multitouch with Hammer
- Ember’s beginner’s guide
- Depency Management with RequireJS
- Getting started with modular applications
- Offline data synchronization
- HTML5 application cache how to
- Working with SVG maps
- CSS3 Animation property
- Data Visualization with web standards
- Adobe Shadow
- Interview of Christian Heilmann, Mozilla
- CSS selectors
- Room 112 – PhoneGap exploration
- Showcase
- PhoneGap Build
- The Address element
- Manage your data in the cloud with SignalBox
- GetUserMedia and CSS filters
- Face detection with GetUserMedia
- News
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Appliness #2 – May 2012
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Table of contents:
- CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions, by Deepa Subramaniam
- Drag and drop with jQuery UI on mobile devices, by Michaël Chaize
- JavaScript Object Creation, by Keith Peters
- Using Backbone with jQuery Mobile, by Christophe Coenraets
- Crafting native looking iOS apps with HTML, by Christophe Coenraets
- Demo of Handlebars, by Raymond Camden
- Real-time data exchange in HTML5, by Ryan Stewart
- Swipe to delete items, by Michaël Chaize
- App-UI, a library by Andrew Trice
- HTML5 Multimedia components, by Ian Devlin
- Interview of Pamela Fox
- Colour Match, Cutest Paw, Bit Timer: showcase
- Which Element ? Pull quotes, comments
- PhoneGap and the File API
- WTFJS: False advertising
- Generate color palettes from HTML5 video
- CSS variables draft
- News
Appliness #1 – April 2012
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Table of contents:
- Mobile Web & PhoneGap Dev Tips, by Andy Trice
- Getting started with jQuery Mobile, by Michaël Chaize
- HTML5 Canvas quirks, by Mihai Corlan
- How I debug JavaScript, by Ray Camden
- Getting started with Backbone.js, by Christophe Coenraets
- Interview of Maximiliano Firtman
- Showcase of JustOneMore, Wikipedia and the Census Browser
- WTFJS? All your commas are belong to Array
- News by Brian Rinaldi
- What is the Apache Foundation ? by Alan
- Bleeding Edge HTML5, WebRTC & Device Access, by Andy Trice
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