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JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy
(en Español, русском, 中文) JavaScript’s prototype object generates confusion wherever it goes. Seasoned JavaScript professionals, even authors frequently exhibit a limited understanding of the…
If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed
Forgive the lousy screenshot and transparency in the title bar, but I just got ...
AngularJS 1.0 released
AngularJS lets you write web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly and lets use standard HTML as your template language. And it automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects…
Skype 4.0 for Linux
Start free Teams video calls instantly! Connect, collaborate, and communicate effortlessly. Enjoy features like video calls, chat, file sharing, and more. Perfect for personal use, freelancers, solopreneurs, PTAs, teachers, small businesses and social events. Get started today!
Hello Opera 12
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
Olark launches "Targeted Chat"
Welcome to Olark's Help Center! Learn how to increase sales using live chat — Guides for automated messages, ecommerce integrations, reporting, customer information and more.
Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements
Firefox makes it faster and easier to get where you want to go on the Web with a redesigned Home Page and New Tab experience. The Home Page now includes ic
Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms
Over the past couple years, we’ve had a lot of feedback that Google Search from mainland China can be inconsistent and unreliable. It depend...
It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF
Designer, researcher, strategist.
How WebSockets work vs polling/long polling/streaming
How the web evolved from HTTP polling and Comet to WebSockets. Covers Ajax, long polling, Server-Sent Events, and why WebSockets became the standard for real-time communication.