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• An analytics primer for developers

  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics – Mark Twain Deciding what to track (all the things) When you are adding analytics to a system you should try to log everything. At some point in the future if you need to pull information out of a ...

  Posted March 17, 2015 by Mark Wheeler

• Save the Web – Be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow

  This is a critical time in the evolution of the Web. Its core ethos of being free and open is at risk with too little interoperability and threats to privacy, security, and expression from governments throughout the world. To protect the Web, we need more people with technical expertise to ...

  Posted March 11, 2015 by Hannah Kane

• Visually Representing Angular Applications

  This article concerns diagrammatically representing Angular applications. It is a first step, not a fully figured out dissertation about how to visual specify or document Angular apps. And maybe the result of this is that I, with some embarrassment, find out that someone else already has a complete solution. My ...

  Posted March 11, 2015 by David Aden

• interact.js for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures

  interact.js is a JavaScript module for Drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+). Background I started it as part of my GSoC 2012 project for Biographer‘s network visualization tool. The tool was a web app which rendered to an SVG ...

  Posted March 11, 2015 by Taye Adeyemi

• jsDelivr and its open-source load balancing algorithm

  This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov of jsDelivr. Recently I wrote about jsDelivr and what makes it unique where I described in detail about the features that we offer and how our system works. Since then we improved a lot of stuff and released even more features. But ...

  Posted March 11, 2015 by Dmitriy Akulov