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Baidu API for Maps and Images

Google is blocked in China, as a developer, this isn’t very good news especially if that app requires things like Maps API. Baidu is here to save the day

How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack

As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, this post is meant to be the first in a series aimed at digging deeper into JavaScript and how it actually works

6 jQuery Form Wizard Plugins

jQuery Form Wizard is a jQuery plugin for creating form wizard or form flow without refreshing your page or webpage. We have listed 6 of them in this post.

Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget

Google's Search Console team recently sent out an email to site owners with a warning that Google Chrome will take steps starting this October to identify and show warnings on non-secure sites that have form inputs.

Carthage Tutorial: Getting Started

In this Carthage tutorial, you'll learn all about what Carthage is, how to install it, and how to declare, install, and integrate your dependencies.

Everything You Need to Know About the CSS Cursor Rule

While the world's going bonkers for touch-controlled interfaces, this article will focus on the more traditional input method of the mouse. I'll suggest an approach of progressive enhancement for...

How to Set up an Online Multi-Language Magazine with Sulu

In this Sulu CMS bootcamp post, we go through the full process of setting up a brand new multi-language online magazine site like SitePoint (+ languages!).

The Great Icon Debate: Fonts Vs SVG

Fonts have been a convenient place to store our vector icons – but is it the *right* place? Massimo asks if it's time to move to SVG.

4 Important Changes In Vue.js 2.4.0

Vue.js 2.4.0 has been released, with an abundance of new features, fixes and optimisations. In this article, I’ll give you a breakdown of four new features that I think are the most interesting.

Single Page App Backends: Where Laravel Beats Node.js

A web developer compares Laravel an Node.js, two of the most popular backend frameworks, to see how Laravel stacks up with the increasingly popular Node.

Tips for Creating Accessible SVG

In the past, 'accessible graphics' meant ALT tags. Leonie Watson shows how SVG allows us to make semantic, robust, screen-readable graphics.

Code Splitting With Vue.js And Webpack

One possible downside to bundling your single page app with Webpack is that you can end up with a really big bundle file. Code splitting is the idea that a bundle can be fragmented into smaller files.

Iterables and Iterators in JavaScript

In this post, I go over the iterable and iterator protocols and show some examples of making your own objects iterable so that they can be used with the for...of loop or the spread operator.