Javascript

Marcos Placona on May 17, 2013

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes No catches here, all you need to do to get a free e-copy of my new book jQuery Drag-and-Drop Grids How-to (UK , US) Is read the book, and then write a review of it on your blog. And I’m not asking you to write a good (or biased) [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 18, 2013

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes So, I decided to take a punt at writing a NodeJS application. Not a big application, or anything that would get me slashdoted, but an application that would help me understand the language, and give me a taste of what it is so many people are talking a bout. I have [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 10, 2013

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes A few months ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about a new project they had in mind and thought I’d be a good fit for. The challenge was to write a book about one single topic that would enable readers to learn and become proficient on that topic [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 31, 2012

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes At work, we use Apache JMeter for load testing applications or API’s we build. JMeter is an amazing open source tool with an even more amazing community behind it, so if you’ve never used it, you surely are missing on a great piece of software. Anyway, one thing that [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 26, 2012

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes I’ve been asked to come up with an image slider prototype for something new we were doing at work. I would generally just find a suitable sliding jQuery plug-in and get the developers to use it. However, this time, there were two very peculiar requirements necessary for this slider [...]

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