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July 2014 articles

Handling multiple ajax requests and callbacks with jQuery

Posted: Wednesday 30th July, 2014 - 10:50pm
Author: James Griffiths

If you are like most front-end developers you'll no doubt be familiar with using jQuery to parse AJAX requests when handling data such as JSON or XML.

Here's a quick and easy way to handle multiple AJAX requests with jQuery...

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Mac developers do it better

Posted: Sunday 20th July, 2014 - 10:30pm
Author: James Griffiths

No matter what your opinion of the Apple Mac platform; whether you love or loathe it there's no denying the passion behind developers who create the software.

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Securely copying files and directories with Unix

Posted: Saturday 19th July, 2014 - 10:24pm
Author: James Griffiths

If, like a lot of developer's, you're working with the Apple Mac platform then you not only get the benefits of a well designed GUI but you also get to take advantage of the powerful features provided by the underlying Unix core. 

In this tutorial we're going to take you through one of those features: securely copying files.

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Automated website testing with CasperJS

Posted: Thursday 17th July, 2014 - 10:18pm
Author: James Griffiths

As front-end development continues to grow as a discipline in its own right so do the number of tools, technologies & processes available (not to mention the volume of platforms and devices to cater for). In this article we're going to take you through automated website testing with a sample CasperJS script. If you've never tested your website with JavaScript before you're going to love CasperJS

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Installing the Android SDK on Mavericks

Posted: Thursday 17th July, 2014 - 10:10pm
Author: James Griffiths

Installing the Android SDK for Cordova PhoneGap mobile development can seem a little involved and challenging at first glance but in the following tutorial we're going to take you through how to do just that.

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Setting the System Path for CasperJS on Windows

Posted: Friday 11th July, 2014 - 9:57pm
Author: James Griffiths

We've been doing a lot of testing with the fantastic CasperJS library lately and have needed to work with this on both Mac and Windows platforms. This article takes you through installation and configuration on a Windows platform (predominantly XP, believe it or not, with some pointers on managing the same on Windows 7.)

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