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Finding an Element Using jQuery’s andSelf() Function

An example using jQuery's andSelf, filter, and find functions to locate an element starting with the element itself instead of only looking at its descendants.

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Using Backbone.js with CoffeeScript

There are certain parts of Backbone’s example Todos application that become unnecessary or clunky if translated verbatim to CoffeeScript. Following are a few little things that we

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Automated Tests for HTML5 Offline Web Applications with Capybara and Selenium

Testing web apps that make use of the new HTML5 features can be frustrating. With some work, we can use Capybara to test them through the browser easily.

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Mocking Objects with Sinon JS

When Foo has the functions of our ClassToTest, Sinon is happy. When we create a Foo, the ClassToTest initialize does not run, which makes our tests happy.

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Don’t Forget Realtime Analytics Monitoring for Your Website

Using a realtime web analytics service allows you to react immediately to spikes in website traffic.

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JavaScript: Don’t Reassign Your Function Arguments

The point of this post is to raise awareness that reassigning the value of an argument variable mutates the arguments object.

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namespace: a CoffeeScript Nugget

I recently stumbled upon the namespace function in CoffeeScript’s FAQ.

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Making Your Site Visible to Search Engines with Sitemaps

There is often confusion about sitemaps, how they are implemented, and how they can be best leveraged with search engine tools for search engine optimization (SEO).

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Website Video using Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, & JWPlayer

The following is a road-map of my path to enlightenment and the eventual solution I employed.

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WatiN and COM Errors: Enable IE Protected Mode for Local Intranet Zone

When we first started building up our web test suite using Watin, we quickly started getting this error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException

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Updating PhoneGap’s ChildBrowser Plugin to Handle Local Files

The ChildBrowser plugin allows external webpages to be displayed within a PhoneGap application.

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File Upload Testing in IE8 with WatiN

Hurdles aside, using WatiN and SpecFlow for system testing has worked out well for a testing problem that has historically been hard-won, if won at all.

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