Web Development
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Getting Public MyDiscovery Userlists from Aquabrowser
Lets say that you need to get a list of all of your MyDiscovery lists. You may want to move them to another system, or you just want to print them all out and take them with you. You could log into MyDiscoveries and click on your lists one by one, but even that doesn’t…
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Preprocessor Languages for Web Development
Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Dart, Haml, Slim, Jade… The list goes on and on. What are Preprocessing languages, and why should we use them? The basic building blocks of any website are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. HTML is the structure of the page, the bones, where the content goes. This is the one language…
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Codekit
Codekit is a web development program for the Mac platform, and if you’re a Mac web developer who hasn’t been using it, you’ve been missing out. Codekit not only lets you compile LESS and Sass, two great CSS pre-processing languages it also lets you compile Coffee Script, Haml, Jade, and a few other pre-processors that…
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LESS is more
CSS, you know it you love it, or at least you should if you’ve been around since the days of designing with tables. But sometimes CSS can be a pain, and to help ease that pain we have LESS. LESS is a CSS Preprocessor, its not a tool to make cool CSS effects, but rather…
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Video Training for Web Design and Development
So you’re looking to learn some web design and development, but where do you start. Here are a few great examples of online learning with a focus on video tutorials. Lynda.com Lynda.com is a great online resource for not only web design and development but for a lot of other skills as well. They have…
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Moving past Notepad
Okay everyone, let’s get to it. So you’ve decided that you want to do some web development, that’s great, now all you need is something to write it on, and no I’m not talking about a computer, though you’ll need that too. What your looking for is an IDE, now don’t let the acronym scare…