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Steve Mathias
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Building beautiful APIs with Foodgawker
Crowd Favorite has been working with the Gawkerverse on their Foodgawker site for several years. Along with its sibling sites (Craftgawker, Stylegawker, Dwellinggawker, and Weddinggawker), Foodgawker tremendous collections of curated content and highly-technical features to improve performance and ability to navigate content. As a part of this, the site features a fully-responsive design, and provides an API with…
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How to evaluate an API: Starz
What is an API? An Application Programming Interface, or API, is a set of commands, utilities, functions, or uniform data access points that allows for programmatic access to a system. A website-based API is built primarily using a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or Representational State Transfer (REST) interface. While SOAP is common in older…
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JavaScript feature resolution – A case study with iSigner
Background iSigner is a JavaScript project for a subscription-based service which embeds an American Sign Language interpreter into a page, and allows the creator of that page to direct the plugin to sign page content, including image attributes (alt/title), video, and text. In order to provide the greatest amount of accessibility and flexibility that is…
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JavaScript profiling and optimization
JavaScript can be a very powerful tool in a web developer’s kit for producing highly-interactive, polished, responsive content. It runs in almost all browsers, across almost all devices, almost the same way on each. It can be used for data collection, such as AJAX form submission, streamlined data delivery, via infinite scroll or AJAX retrieval,…
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Twitter Tools v3.1
We’ve released an update to the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress. Twitter Tools works with Social to create an elegant 2-way integration between your WordPress site and Twitter. Twitter Tools archives your tweets on your own site, and gives you the option to turn them into blog posts. You can see it in action on…
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Social v2.11
We’ve released a very minor update to the Social plugin for WordPress. This update corrects the documentation about the CRON jobs actions that Social executes. Download the new version from WordPress.org. Developers, collaborate with us on GitHub where active development takes place.
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FavePersonal v1.5
We’ve released an update to our FavePersonal theme for WordPress. This new version brings compatibility with the admin UI refresh in WordPress 3.8 and brings the minimum required WordPress version to 3.8. Find links to the download, documentation and more on the FavePersonal product page. Developers, collaborate with us on GitHub.
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Social v2.10
We’ve released an update to the Social plugin for WordPress. Social is a plugin that creates a two-way integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can broadcast your posts to your social networks and bring responses back in as comments. It’s also integrated into our FavePersonal theme. This version includes…
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Post Formats Admin UI v1.3.1
We’ve updated our Post Formats Admin UI WordPress developer library to be compatible with the admin UI refresh in WordPress 3.8. The Post Formats Admin UI powers the post formats feature of our FavePersonal theme, allowing you to build your theme around structured data for status posts, link posts, image posts, video posts, galleries, and…
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Admin Column View for WordPress
Sometimes there are little things that nag at you. The way pages and other hierarchical custom post types (CPTs) are presented in the WordPress admin was one of those things for me. I’m a big fan of the column view in the OS X Finder, and I thought that a similar UX would work well…
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Rands in Repose
I’ve been a fan of Michael Lopp for the better part of a decade. The content on Rands in Repose is stellar; consistently giving me insights and sparks for new ideas to consider. It’s one of the sites I link to most frequently from my personal site since 2004. Earlier this year I saw a…
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