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How to Use Service Workers to Communicate Across Browser Tabs
Web
By Adam Roberts, Tim Evko,
Front-end lead Tim Evko discusses things he's focused on lately, including a new use for service workers. Part of a Versioning interview series.
An Overview of JavaScript Promises
JavaScript
By Sandeep Panda,
This article explores JavaScript’s new Promises API, showing how you can leverage promises in your JavaScript development.
Embedded Signing with the HelloSign API
Web
By Angela Molina,
We'll walk you through a live embedded signature demonstration. Watch as we embed a signature request from our own example site using HTML and PHP.
Using the HelloSign API Dashboard and Test Mode
Web
By Angela Molina,
We demonstrate how HelloSign’s dashboard can help you manage and provide overviews into your API calls, callbacks, requests and more!
Making Your First API Call with HelloSign
JavaScript
By Angela Molina,
In just 5 minutes, we’ll show you how to start signing documents on your own website using the HelloSign API.
How to Connect Your Api.ai Assistant to the IoT
Web
By Patrick Catanzariti,
Patrick Catanzariti explores how to connect an Api.ai assistant to Jawbone Up's API via a Node.js server as an example of IoT connectivity.
Optimizing Web Fonts for Performance: the State of the Art
HTML & CSS
By Maria Antonietta Perna,
Maria Antonietta Perna digs into performance issues when loading custom web fonts. She discusses file size and FOIT and shows some cutting-edge solutions.
How To Create a Twitter App and API Interface Via Python
Programming
By Michael Grogan,
Michael explains how to use a Python API to connect to Twitter, and download tweets, follower lists, multiple tweets at once, and customize searches.
How to Modernize a Booking System with Acuity Scheduling
Web
By Lukas White,
Lukas White shows you how to bring a driving instructor's booking system into the 21st century using the Acuity Scheduling API.
Harnessing the Google Maps JavaScript API the Right Way
JavaScript
By Jamie Shields,
Jamie Shields walks through best practices for getting started with the Google Maps JavaScript API.
Embedding Virtual Reality Across the Web with VR Views
JavaScript
By Patrick Catanzariti,
Patrick Catanzariti explains how to use Google's new VR Views to embed VR content on your website.
How to Empower the Amazon Echo with IFTTT
Web
By Patrick Catanzariti,
Patrick Catanzariti explores pairing the Amazon Echo with IFTTT recipes. He looks at triggering LIFX lights, SMS, email and Google Spreadsheets.
API Building and Testing Made Easier with Postman
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik examines the purpose of APIs, and how Postman can help with the critical task of testing them for functionality, exception handling and security.
Empowering Your Api.ai Assistant with Entities
Web
By Patrick Catanzariti,
Patrick Catanzariti explores the concept of custom Api.ai entities and how these can be used to customize your personal assistant.
Google Maps Made Easy with GMaps.js
Programming
By Shivam Mamgain,
Shivam Mamgain explores ways to utilize and customize Google Maps with GMaps.js, a library that makes it much easier to harness the Google Maps API.
Using the Battery Status API to Optimize Your Development
Programming
By Simon Codrington,
Simon presents the Battery Status API, used for determining the battery levels of an end user's device and tailoring your app to optimize performance.
13 Tips on Designing and Building Apps More Efficiently
Web
By Zack Wallace,
Zack Wallace shares 13 tips that will help you design and build apps more efficiently.
How to Solve Caching Conundrums
Web
By Craig Buckler,
You need rarely worry about caching — until you're hit by bizarre behavior, such as pages returning JSON data on the live app but not the test versions ...
Your First Google Map
JavaScript
By Robert Dickerson,
Robert will walk you through how to setup and configure your first Google map using the Google Maps API in this short screencast to get you started.
Working with Pagination, Infinite Scroll and JavaScript in Kimono
Web
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari follows up his first look at Kimono with a look at the improvements the web service has made, focused on infinite scroll, pagination and JS
RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language
PHP
By Lukas White,
Lukas White explains RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language, which you can use to scaffold, test, mock and document your API endpoints.
Video: Create Amazing Applications with Google Maps
JavaScript
By Robert Dickerson,
Explore the benefits and capabilities of the Google Maps API, and how other websites have customized it to make it a more attractive and interactive map.
Getting Started with Google Maps Recipes
JavaScript
By Massimo Cassandro,
Massimo Cassandro takes a look at the power of the Google Maps API, covering static, streetview, embedded, and JavaScript-based maps.
Google Analytics API v3 and PHP: Filters and Charts
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie upgrades his previous demo application by extending the Google Analytics implementation with filters and charts from Highcharts.js
OSQuery: Explore your OS with SQL
Programming
By Bruno Skvorc,
Facebook recently released OSQuery - a way to inspect your operating system's state with SQL as if it were a relational database. See how!
An Introduction to ChatOps: Devops Meets IM
PHP
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari takes a look at the emerging trend of ChatOps, and looks at how VictorOps can take your chat app's development powers even further.
How to Supercharge Slack for Powerful Workplace Collaboration
Entrepreneur
By Shaumik Daityari,
Slack is an increasingly popular collaboration tool for startups and larger organizations. Shaumik Daityari explans how to make it even more useful.
Integrating VictorOps with Salesforce Using its REST Endpoint
Programming
By Dhaivat Pandya,
Dhaivat Pandya explains how to use VictorOps' REST endpoint to integrate it with other services, in this case, SalesForce.
5 Innovative Ways to Use Web Data
Web
By Tim Evko,
Tim Evko shows 5 different ways people have harnessed web data, using the free tools from import.io.
Web Apps Are the Future
Mobile
By Tim Evko,
Native mobile apps require storage space, an internet connection, and often need several data-heavy updates. Tim Evko says we should adopt web apps instead.