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mdn.io - Passive URL shortening for MDN - lazdBlog

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August 13th, 2013. Mdnio - Passive URL shortening for MDN. Whenever you need to look something up on the Mozilla Developer Network. You usually end up typing something like. Into the search bar and clicking the first link. Weve taken that already simple process and made it simpler with mdn.io, the Im feeling lucky URL shortener for MDN. How do I use it? Simply type something like this in your address bar:. You can even include spaces:. Mdnio/array#Methods of Array instances. MDN URLs are quite long:.

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Building a Blog with Metalsmith • Blake Embrey

http://blakeembrey.com/articles/2014/09/building-a-blog-with-metalsmith

Building a Blog with Metalsmith. Is a new addition to static site generator space, only released at the beginning of this year. Its written in JavaScript and provides an extremely simple plugin system for composing files using middleware. The fact that everything is a plugin makes it incredibly easy to understand what is happening under the hood and extend it when you need to add new functionality. Directory inside of that. The first thing we need to save the snippet below into a. You will need to install.

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Syntax Highlighted Diffs For Everyone • Blake Embrey

http://blakeembrey.com/articles/2014/12/syntax-highlighting-blog-diff-support

Syntax Highlighted Diffs For Everyone. This is a recount, of sorts, on how I added syntax highlighting to diffs on my blog and turned it into a module for anyone to use. The module is made for syntax highlighting Markdown files straight out of the box (supporting marked. Style highlight callbacks). Check out GitHub and npm for the final result. Two weeks ago, GitHub announced. A new feature - syntax highlighting of diffs. A couple of months earlier, I wrote a detailed introduction to Metalsmith. I knew i...

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Reference the Constructor of a Type in TypeScript (Generically) • Blake Embrey

http://blakeembrey.com/articles/2015/04/typescript-constructor-of-type

Reference the Constructor of a Type in TypeScript (Generically). Although not initially intuitive, I run into this issue while documenting the. Function in Marty.js. I didnt realise a solution, so I reached out to a friend who provided me with this beauty. Function register T (clazz: { new (.args: any[]): T }): T;. And it works brilliantly! But whats this even doing? You can also write this with a slightly different syntax such as. New (args: any[]) = T. Theres no real difference here.

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Avoid type="number" in AngularJS • Blake Embrey

http://blakeembrey.com/articles/2014/05/angular-js-number-validation-bug

Avoid type=number in AngularJS. The other day I got hit by a peculiar bug in Angular. Using. On an input element wouldnt do any number validation. On top of this, when I entered an invalid number the only validation failing was. After a little research, it turned out to be a feature. Of blocking access to the. By typing an invalid number in the demo and looking at the error message. App = angular.module( 'myApp'. Scope, elem, attrs, ctrl. Custom number validation logic. AttrsappType = = 'number'. Or that...

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Introducing Retest • Blake Embrey

http://blakeembrey.com/articles/2014/02/introducing-node-retest

If youve looked into testing your API in node before, youve probably run across supertest. By the prolific TJ Holowaychuk. So have I and its truly a fantastic library for testing APIs. However, I found it to be lacking a couple of features I sorely needed. And to my surprise, I struggled to find another request testing module in the node ecosystem. The reason I wrote retest. How Do I Use It? App = express(); / Creates a request instance for interacting with our application. If the. Request = retest(app);.