Feats Thru Sheets: The Wonders of Go-To Templates – Features – Source: An OpenNews project

  Templates: not just for adorable gingerbread houses. (Inhabitat) Clean up your newsroom workflow with ready-made tools that are easy to use I’ve never been much for cleaning my room. As a kid, I was too lazy for something that sounded so inconsequential. But my mom would scold me and remind me that, just by doing…

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Live Video API – Videos

Live Video Upload with the Graph API The Live API allows you to create stories on Facebook using live video content from a variety of sources. This allows you to go beyond mobile device cameras and bring in video from professional cameras, multi-camera setups and programmatic sources such as games or screencasts. If you would…

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Is The New Javascript Based WordPress Complicating Things? – WPExplorer

The reasoning behind the new open source WordPress.com interface, named “Calypso,” is simple. The existing PHP codebase served the company and the WordPress community well since the company’s founding in 2003, and made a lot of sense three, five, and certainly ten years ago. But in the super-fast, mobile-first era, it had become a hindrance….

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How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript • The Register

Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript. A couple of hours ago, Azer Koçulu unpublished more than 250 of his modules from NPM, which is a popular package manager used by JavaScript projects to install dependencies. Koçulu yanked his source code because,…

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MIT develops a new technique to load webpages faster | TechCrunch

Begin: WordPress Article Content Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website to heave into view. But researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have taken a different tack…

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