A look at what makes React JS user interfaces different from JS Conf EU 2013 by Pete Hunt. React is a powerful, modern javascript view layer type library for creating reusable components and fast UIs. See...

A highly entertaining and funky look at creating contemporary dance music in javascript from a talk at JS Conf EU 2013 by Jan Krutisch. There’s lots of interesting live coding. Hearing what he...

Paul Irish goes on a walk through of some awesome Google Chrome DevTools features. Some of the great features to learn about:

• Edit and save files right in the browser with workspaces. You can view changes live and persist changes ma...

You may have noticed how some websites let you know how many times URLs have been tweeted. How do they do that? The twitter api will help.

The the call we need is:

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json

This call takes a url as a parameter. Let’s look at an example:

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Sites in various parts of the world, for example the UK, need to display information to visitors about their use of cookies. This is typically done with a cookie information page and a notice which appears on a user’s first visit to the site.

Many sites store the fact that a user has seen t...