Felix's Node.js Convincing the boss guide « Home / All Guides Now that you're all hyped up about using node.js, it's time to convince your boss. Well, maybe. I have had the pleasure of consulting for different businesses on whether node.js is the right technology, and sometimes the answer is simply no. So this guide is my opinionated collection of advice for those of you that want to explore whether node.js makes sense for their business, and if so, how to convince the management. Bad Use Cases CPU heavy apps Even though I love node.js, there are several use cases where it simply doesn't make sense. That being said, node.js allows you to easily write C++ addons, so you could certainly use it as a scripting engine on top of your super-secret algorithms. Simple CRUD / HTML apps While node.js will eventually be a fun tool for writing all kinds of web applications, you shouldn't expect it to provide you with more benefits than PHP, Ruby or Python at this point. NoSQL + Node.js + Buzzword Bullshit Good Use Cases JSON APIs Single page apps
Grok - A Smashing Web Framework — Grok Tooltipster - The jQuery Tooltip Plugin Styling your tooltips with a custom look ⇑ Tooltipster makes it very easy to go from one of the packaged themes and customize a few properties of your choice. To do so, we recommend that you create a so-called "secondary theme" which will override some properties of a packaged theme. Create a new css file and include it in your page. For your secondary theme to be applied, provide an array of themes instead of just one. Changing the size of the arrow might be the only challenging customization but it's doable! Updating a tooltip's content ⇑ It's easy as pie to update a tooltip's content - whether it's open or closed. $('#myelement').tooltipster('content', 'My new content'); // or when you have the instance of the tooltip: instance.content('My new content'); Tooltipster plays a subtle animation when the content changes. Using AJAX to generate your tooltip content ⇑ One great use for this is to grab dynamic content for your tooltips via AJAX. Forcing or disabling sides ⇑ Predefined behaviors
Less, dynamic stylesheet language Sublime Text 2 pour le dev web : config, trucs et astuces Pourquoi cet article ? J'écris cet article parce qu'autant ST peut être extrêmement puissant et confortable, autant son installation par défaut (ST « nu », si vous voulez) n'en laisse pas paraître grand chose… La sidebar est totalement dénuée d'options utiles au clic droit, on n'a pas de transpose, etc. Et même ses fonctions natives puissantes, comme le Go To Anything, la Command Palette ou les Layouts, sont souvent bien peu utilisés, ou sous-employés. L'idée est donc de mettre en place ici une config « musclée », et de vous fournir également des liens vers des ressources externes de qualité sur ST lui-même, au travers notamment de screencasts, qui constituent toujours une des meilleures approches pour découvrir un éditeur, car l'aspect visuel et animé est important ici. À partir de zéro Note importante : si vous avez déjà ST d'installé et de personnalisé, il peut être préférable de sauvegarder vos réglages et paquets. Installation Vous pouvez télécharger ST depuis son site officiel.
Build Desktop Apps with Node.js Using WebApp Node.js contributor Tim Caswell pushed an initial release of WebApp Topcube, a framework for building desktop GUI apps with Node.js, to GitHub. The stated goal is to "Give node developers a way to have a desktop GUI to their node servers using HTML5 + CSS3 as the GUI platform." It's still very early in the project's life - Caswell notes that he's not even sure he will continue developing it. Caswell also has a GitHub repository for a project called node-gir, which he describes as: Node-gir is node bindings to the girepository library making it possible to make automatic and dynamic calls to any library that has GI annotations installed. This would require you to know some C to build applications, though. Caswell works for HP on WebOS, and also runs HowtoNode.
Introduction to Sass for New WordPress Theme Designers As a new WordPress theme designer, you would quickly learn the challenges of maintaining long CSS files while keeping them organized, scalable, and readable. You will also learn that many designers and front-end developers recommend using a CSS preprocessor language like Sass or LESS. But what are these things? and how do you get started with them? This article is an introduction to Sass for new WordPress Theme Designers. What is Sass? The CSS that we use was designed to be an easy to use stylesheet language. It is very much like PHP which is a preprocessor language that executes a script on the server and generates an HTML output. Since version 3.8, WordPress admin area styles were ported to utilize Sass for development. Getting Started With Sass for WordPress Theme Development Most theme designers use local development environment to work on their themes before deploying it to a staging environment or a live server. First thing you need to do is to install Sass. What about CSS @import?
Buzz, a Javascript HTML5 Audio library