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Libraries

• jQuery - The de-facto library for the modern age. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
• Backbone - Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• AngularJS - Conventions based MVC framework for HTML5 apps.
• Underscore - Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• lawnchair - Key/value store adapter for indexdb, localStorage

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Libraries

• 960 Grid System - An effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
• Compass - Open source CSS Authoring Framework.
• Bootstrap - Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
• Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for Bootstrap.
• Zurb Foundation - Framework for writing responsive web sites.
• SASS - CSS extension language which allows variables, mixins and rules nesting.
• Skeleton - Boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development.

Guides

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//add Object.getPrototypeOf() if it's not supported
//	- if the __proto__ property is not supported either, this may break if anything in the object's prototype chain has been tampered with
//	- see http://ejohn.org/blog/objectgetprototypeof/

(function (){
	"use strict";
	function isPrimitive(o){ var t; return o===t || o===null || (t = typeof o)==="number" || t==="string" || t==="boolean"; }
	if(!Object.getPrototypeOf){
		if(typeof("".__proto__) === "object"){
			Object.getPrototypeOf = function getPrototypeOf(object){

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//get max value in an array
//got this from http://addictedtonew.com/archives/482/javascript-array-max-and-equal-height-columns/
if(!Array.prototype.max) Array.prototype.max = function max(){ return Math.max.apply({}, this); };

//get minimum value in an array
if(!Array.prototype.min) Array.prototype.min = function min(){ return Math.min.apply({}, this); };

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//returns the logarithm of `num` to base `base`
if(!Math.logB){
	Math.logB = function logB(num, base){
		return Math.log(num)/Math.log(base);
	};
}

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//returns a copy of a string with a portion removed
//(essentially the opposite of `slice`)
//the `end` argument is optional

//str.prune(begin[, end])

if(!String.prototype.prune){
	String.prototype.prune = function prune(begin, end){
		"use strict";
		var newStr = this.slice(0);	//make a copy of the string

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(function (){
	"use strict";
	var oldEncodeURI = encodeURI;
	encodeURI = function encodeURI(str){ return oldEncodeURI(str).replace(/%5B/ig, "[").replace(/%5D/ig, "]"); };
})();

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//encode reserved characters in a string for use in HTML
//if `keepValidEntities` is true, the amphersands for valid character entity references will not be encoded
function textToHTML(str, keepValidEntities){
	"use strict";
	var validEntityNames, rxp;
	
	if(keepValidEntities){
		//see http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
		validEntityNames = ""+
			//markup-significant and internationalization characters

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//creates a new function that, when called, has its `this` keyword set to the provided object, with a given sequence of arguments
// preceding any provided when the new function is called
//note: this is only a partial implementation; it may not work as expected in some scenarios.
// For instance, the resulting function cannot be used as a contructor.

if(!Function.prototype.bind){
	Function.prototype.bind = function bind(toObject){
		"use strict";
		var originalFn, boundArgs;
		

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//returns an array of the properties & methods that are direct properties of an object (i.e., those that have not been inherited)
//see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/keys
if(!Object.keys){
	Object.keys = (function (){
		"use strict";
		
		var hasOwnProperty = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty,
			hasDontEnumBug = !({toString: null}).propertyIsEnumerable("toString"),
			dontEnums = ["toString", "toLocaleString", "valueOf", "hasOwnProperty", "isPrototypeOf", "propertyIsEnumerable", "constructor"];