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Named capturing groups in regex
Regular expressions, commonly known as regex, are a super powerful tool that can be used for search, filtering, string manipulation and validation. Even though there are some syntax variations, regex can be used with most software languages. This article will focus on a particularly handy part of the regex syntax that can make your code…
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Copy HTML content with navigator clipboard
We have often seen “Copy” buttons for plain text. Thanks to navigator.clipboard‘s API, we can also programatically copy and paste HTML content. The copy code Let’s imagine we have a bit of HTML content that includes links and other basic HTML code. We want our end users to be able to copy it exactly as…
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How to keep up with change in tech
Change and innovation are core in the world of tech and engineering. We’ve all heard the sound-bites, such as disruption, one of my favourites 😀 They are everywhere! We can safely say, however, that behind every push for change there is a genuine desire to either improve what is already there, solve an existing problem…
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WordPress Coding Standards from the Terminal
This article will show you how to add the tools you need to test your code against the WordPress Coding Standards from the Command Line. A second article will be published shortly with instructions for adding them to the code editor Atom. It will also include links to the instructions for other editors. Going by…
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What is AMP?
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an Open Source project started by Google in 2015 with the purpose of improving websites’ speed for mobile devices. In this article we explain what technology it uses and how to code an AMP web page.