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G’day all you loyal readers! I have 15 invites to Twine for anyone who can provide me with their URI. You don’t have one? Well, a little hint, read this post by Tim Berners-Lee and then run, don’t walk to the nearest FOAF-a-Matic and make yourself a shiny new FOAF file.
Put your FOAF file online and add a comment with the location. The first 15 will get an …

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15 invites to Twine

More fallout from the BlueDragon open source announcement of last week: New Atlanta President Vince Bonfanti attempts to clear up some misconceptions; Allan Williamson gives an example of how the new open source version can be used …

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The Week in ColdFusion: 12-18 March: Beyond the New Atlanta announcement

I’m occassionally irked by the fact that a collection of DOM elements (more formally called a NodeList) can’t be manipulated like an array, because it isn’t one. However it does look like one, and thinking it is one is a mistake made so often by JavaScript novices that for our upcoming JavaScript Reference I felt it necessary to note this point for every single DOM object that is, or returns, a collection.

You can iterate through a collection like an array:

for(var i=0; i<collection.length; i++)
{
//whatever
}

But you can’t use Array methods like push(), splice() or reverse() to manipulate it.

Except that you can, if you take the next step and convert it …

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A collection is not an array

One challenge we face with having an enormous online archive of articles (over 1,400 at last count) is that finding information can be difficult — especially if you’re just beginning your journey in learning about web design.
For example, we have 35 articles on the topic of CSS alone — it …

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Learn From The Best: The SitePoint Gurus

Following hot on the heels of Apple’s reported problems with over-heating Macbook Air laptops, whispers emanating from Cupertino suggest Apple intends to launch a surprise raid on the lucrative small kitchen appliances sectors.
Sources believe the vanguard will be lead by their new iFry Personal Grill — a compact, low-fat cooking device designed to take the appearance of a small notebook computer. “Fat is designed to run off and pool beneath the keys leaving the food low-fat and tasty” …

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Apple rumored to move into kitchen appliances sector

In Part 1 of my analysis of the results from our reader survey, I revealed how your improvement suggestions were distributed, but some of the categories were a bit vague. For example “content suggestion” covered everything from more blog posts about singletons in PHP to more interviews with leading designers.
In this post I’ll explore in further detail your requests for us to cover specific types of content in our articles and blogs. It is, after all, this category into which the overwhelming majority of your suggestions fell.
Here’s the breakdown of the content that you want to read more of:

As you can see, the three biggest requests, aside from the “other” category, were for more of the same — business, …

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Interpreting the Results of the SitePoint Reader Survey, Part 2: Content