twmbx

// The polling function
function poll(fn, timeout, interval) {
    var endTime = Number(new Date()) + (timeout || 2000);
    interval = interval || 100;

    var checkCondition = function(resolve, reject) { 
        var ajax = fn();
        // dive into the ajax promise
        ajax.then( function(response){
            // If the condition is met, we're done!

knowbody

Exponent - ex-navigation

This is for now, for my personal use only, things might not be correctly explained here. For the official docs please check: https://github.com/exponentjs/ex-navigation/blob/master/README.md

Navigation bar configuration

On every screen you can use the built-in navigation bar, you can add a title, left button, right button or change navigation bar’s style. All you need to do is pass appropriate params to navigationBar in the route configuration:

import React, { Component } from 'react';

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

paulirish

// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating

// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

// MIT license

(function() {
    var lastTime = 0;
    var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];