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Using JavaScript Promises with Backbone.sync

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Using JavaScript Promises with Backbone.sync. January 17, 2014. With Backbone.sync is doable with a few caveats. First, jQuery's $.ajax method (used by Backbone) returns a Deferred object. Compliant. This is ok because the Deferred is "thenable" so we can cast it to a compliant promise object. Second, the onFulfilled handler of your promise's then() method is not passed the same arguments as the success() callback used by Backbone.sync. Namely, the fetched model or collection. Is owned by Morgan Ney.

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JSON API for Social Media Share Counts

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JSON API for Social Media Share Counts. April 20, 2014. Recently I needed to implement social media buttons with a custom look and feel. The "custom look and feel" part meant that I couldn't simply use the vendor supplied embed scripts. If I did then yes, I could use CSS to hide the vendor's button, but the browser's restriction on third-party iframe content meant I still couldn't access the share counts. I would need to use the vendor API's for obtaining share counts. Directly from the browser. API supp...

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Dynamic Gists Using MutationObservers and Promises

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Dynamic Gists Using MutationObservers and Promises. February 2, 2014. If you load your blog posts dynamically, after the. Event has fired, then using GitHubs provided embed. Is not going to work. Embedding Gists into XHR loaded content will take a bit more work. I decided to write a Backbone.View. That would embed Gists after dynamically loading my blog content. Is where I'll handle inserting the Gist after fetching it with the function above. Here is another jQuery based approach:. The dynamic content (...

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Simple CSS3 Ribbons

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January 24, 2014. Using ribbons is a great way to highlight text and important sections of a website. They seem to be everywhere nowadays and that's probably because CSS3 generated content makes them possible using only one HTML element and no images. Here is an example of how to create a simple CSS3 ribbon with only one element. This illustrates a very basic implementation of CSS3 ribbons. You can embellish it to your hearts content. Here is a live example:. Relevant to HTML5, CSS3.

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HTML Excerpt with PHP

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HTML Excerpt with PHP. December 30, 2012. January 10, 2014. Most blog owners would like to be able to show excerpts or previews of their articles as HTML. This allows the excerpt to be styled similarly to the post's landing page, providing a seamless transition for the reader from excerpt to full article. Here is an example of how to create an HTML excerpt using PHP's DOMDocument. Class, where $html represents the entire article, and $num chars the lower bound to the number of characters in the excerpt.

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Installing CouchDB 1.5 on AWS EC2 CentOS 6 (x86_64)

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Installing CouchDB 1.5 on AWS EC2 CentOS 6 (x86 64). January 22, 2014. Here is how I installed CouchDB. From source on an Amazon EC2. Instance running CentOS 6.4. For reference, most of the installation is derived from the CouchDB wiki. Add Rule to EC2 Security Group for Inbound CouchDB Traffic. Your EC2 instance will need to have a new rule added to its security group. Download Dependencies then Configure and Install CouchDB. Test and Secure CouchDB Install. Secure CouchDB in 3 Steps.

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A RESTful JSON API for the NextBus XML Feed

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A RESTful JSON API for the NextBus XML Feed. February 24, 2014. Has been providing real-time passenger information about transit agencies through their public XML feed. For years. The data provided has always been top notch, especially for building real-time web applications, but in my opinion the service has three glaring shortcomings:. It ignores useful HTTP status codes. Every response is an HTTP 200 (even errors). Media type is not supported. Check out a full demo. To see some of the sample responses.

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D3 Treemap From Resource Timing Performance Entries

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D3 Treemap From Resource Timing Performance Entries. September 29, 2014. The various resources embedded in an HTML document can be grouped into a hierarchy of media types, and their corresponding load times can provide interesting data values for a D3. Fortunately, a few browsers have already implemented the W3C Resource Timing API. Some pictures of my newborn daughter and our dogs. Now I can run the return value from. Through a D3 treemap layout. Doing so results in an array of nodes. One for each resou...