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W3C i18n article: How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?

This document will contain advice to avoid writing code that will perform significantly worse than expected. Specifically those patterns that cause V8 (relevant to Node.JS, Opera, Chromium...) to refuse to optimize the affected function.

Inline Anchor Styles: Modern styles and effects for links in a text flow

This article explains Velocity.js — a popular animation engine that drastically improves the speed of UI animation. In particular, this article focuses on Velocity’s UI pack, which allows you to quickly inject motion design into your pages.

Google Web Starter Kit: Boilerplate & Tooling for Multi-Device Development

In Firefox 32, the Web Audio Editor joins the Shader Editor and Canvas Debugger in Firefox Developer Tools for debugging media-rich content on the web. ...

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A resource for developers looking to put HTML5 to use today, including information on specific features and when to use them in your apps.

Facebook, announced Apollo, Facebook’s Paxos-like NoSQL database. Written in C++11 on top of the Apache Thrift 2 RPC framework, Apollo is a hierarchical storage system where all the data is split into shards, very much analogous to region servers in HBase. Apollo is still in development and hasn’t been open-sourced though Johnson did state that doing so was something Facebook were looking into and would like to do.

On March 22nd 2011, Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 which enabled WebGL by default. A month later, we formed PlayCanvas and started building a game engine ...

My mission for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. In January, hundreds of thousands of people did the original UX Crash Course and it was translated into Spanish,...

Google Web Fundamentals

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When we aren't looking for pictures of kittens on the internet, internals developers are nearly always looking for ways to improve PHP, a few developers have a focus on performance. Over the last year, some research into the possibility of introducing JIT compilation capabilities to PHP has been conducted.

It's easy to go down the wrong road when naming variables with Sass. Learn how to avoid color problems with this post!

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Google Web Fundamentals

ECMAScript 6 is the next version of the standard, code-named "Harmony" or "ES.next". Specification drafts can be found on the official wiki. If you wish to send feedback about the standard, do it on es-discuss.

This article serves as a point-by-point walkthrough of how JavaScript-based DOM animation libraries, such as Velocity.js and GSAP, are more performant than