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These Intermittent Test Failures Will Not Stand, Man

I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.

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Better Key Events in Capybara-Webkit

An overview of some changes I made to improve key press event handling in capybara-webkit.

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Using Namespaces in CoffeeScript

using is a coffeescript helper for merging namespaces in coffeescript to clean up your code

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CSS3 Transitions – Spicing Up DOM Changes

CSS3 transitions can be a nice addition to web applications when used properly. Here are a few tips on when and how to user them.

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window.location as a Global Variable

Why I've chosen to avoid setting window.location directly, and how I've avoided it using Backbone's structures.

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Say it Again: CRUD is not REST

Nick Sutterer makes a great case for separating CRUD from REST, and also touches on the important interface constraints of the REST architectural style.

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Upload Files Directly to S3 with Plupload, Rails, and Paperclip

A description of uploading files directly to Amazon S3 from the browser using Plupload, Ruby on Rails, and Paperclip.

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Rails Routes in Javascript with js-routes

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Optimize Page Speed with jQuery Waypoints

jQuery Waypoints provide a great way to optimize page speed by deferring initialization of complex components until they become visible to the user.

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Chaining jQuery Ajax Calls

An example of sequentially chaining jQuery Ajax requests using deferred objects and deferred.pipe.

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Introducing ICanHandlebarz.js – ICanHaz.js, meet Handlebars.js

ICanHandlebarz.js is a simple templating solution utilizing Handlebars.js, in the spirit of ICanHaz.js.

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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.