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Url.js for Node is Finally Here

After the popularity of the websanova url.js package we got a lot of requests for a node.js version. Wait no longer, it's finally here.

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Publishing Node.js Packages to NPM

So how exactly do you make your JavaScript extensions, libraries and plugins work on Node.js. It's quite simple and we cover it in this article.

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Writing Unit Tests in Node.js

An important part of Node.js will be writing unit tests for your apps and it’s modules. Like most of Node.js the basics of setting this up is a snap and you can begin writing unit tests in not time.

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Creating a New Node.js Project

So you've decided to dive into Node.js but you're not quite sure how to start. This article covers the simple process of getting your feet wet with Node.js.

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Installing Node.js with Nginx Proxy

Node.js is great for serving app. But it becomes cumbersome to deal with static files. It's much better to let an existing server such as Nginx handle this which it already does so well.

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wPaint 2.0 Released!

It’s been long overdue but wPaint 2.0 is finally out. The 1.0 stream was doing well but I was getting continually emailed with feature requests, and bugs particularly on mobile. With this release wPaint has been completely rewritten from the ground up.

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10 Shapes to Extend HTML5 Canvas

Today we extended HTML5 Canvas to easily allow drawing some shapes through the use of simple methods.

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A More Powerful Trim()

I came across the situation the other day where I needed to trim a string. However I didn’t need to trim white space characters, I needed to trim some dollar ($) sign characters.

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Websanova JavaScript Extensions Project

After finally catching up with a bunch of things on the blog we finally had a chance to work on the extensions page and got it up and running.

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Custom Events Using the jQuery Special Events API

It’s not often we need our own jQuery events, but when we do it’s nice to know we can create an elegant solution that behaves like any other event would.

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wForm - Awesome jQuery Form Plugins

After introducing our wChar, wCheck, wInput and wSelect jQuery form plugin separately over the past couple weeks we have decided it’s only fit to show all the plugins working in harmony together.

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wInput - A jQuery Input Text and Textarea Plugin

This is a simple plugin for text boxes and textarea inputs that gives us clean looking text boxes and takes care of backwards compatibility for placeholder attributes.

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wSelect - A jQuery Select Box Plugin

The current state of select boxes on the web are just plain ugly and limited in functionality. We wanted to create a select box plugin that could be fully customizable in appearance for one.

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jQuery .mousestop() Event Plugin

It’s not very often we think about triggering a stop event over an element. But perhaps that is because the event has never existed in JavaScript.

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JavaScript ParseInt Radix

Today I came across an error while I was linting my Intelligent RGB / HEX Converter Plugin code about requiring a radix value for parseInt(). After a quick look up on Google I could see that excluding this parameter could lead to some rather nasty bugs in your code.

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