PHP: What if primitive types were objects?
An argument for making PHP strings, arrays, and other primitive types objects to improve fluent APIs, functional programming, consistency, and reflection.
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Javascript: Using Bootstrap tooltips with jQuery UI's slider
How to use Bootstrap tooltips with a jQuery UI slider and reposition the tooltip dynamically as the slider handle moves.
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Predictions for 2013 covering the startup Series A crunch, a breakout health company, multi-cloud APIs, JavaScript framework consolidation, app store APIs, and second-screen TV.
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An introduction to D3.js through a visualization of Los Angeles Times data on California school districts’ high-cost capital appreciation bonds.
Read the postDoctrine 1.2: To many columns causes findBy* to fail
How Doctrine 1.2's generated findBy* regex can exceed PHP's regex compilation limit on tables with hundreds of columns, and why explicit methods provide a workaround.
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