Direction aware hovering effects are relatively new to the HTML/CSS/JS realm and codrops has just put out a really great tutorial detailing the philosophy and code behind them. View it here The demo is especially nice as it is an example of how it might be used in the real world. I highly recommend taking...

So, if you are not subscribed to the HTML5 Weekly newsletter, you might want to get with the program. For the uninitiated, the editors describe themselves as: A free, once–weekly round-up of HTML5 and browser technology news and links. CSS 3, Canvas, WebSockets, WebGL, Native Client, and more. In addition to browser tech news, I’ve found...

I recently created a quick jQuery gallery plugin for a client that auto scrolls using setInterval and, when I was done, I left my tab hidden for a few minutes to look at something on another website.  When I went back to my tab with the gallery, WHAM! I was stuck with a gallery automatically...

For anyone new to git, I thought I’d share some tips. This tutorial assumes you are using the terminal (Mac/Linux) or command console (Win).  You should have a basic knowledge of the terminal/console.  You should also already have git installed.  There are many ways of doing this and they are well documented elsewhere. Here is...

Have you ever been editing a user record in your CMS and tried to save the form, only to get an error that the passwords don’t match even though you didn’t try to update the password? I have. And it’s annoying. Very annoying. Here’s a little tip to help resolve that issue. When creating a...