Monthly Archives: February 2011

Raging Netflix Queue, a Google Chrome Extension

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 21, 2011
The premise is simple. When attempting to find movies to watch in my local theater, I often stumble upon titles that I feel to be more rental quality than theater quality. So I wanted an easier way to add those movies to my Netflix queue. I created a Google Chrome extension to accomplish just that. [...]
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The JavaScript Testing Challenge Winner

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 14, 2011
Congratulations to Steve Love, who was the first to complete The JavaScript Testing Challenge. He wins a copy of Christian Johansen‘s book, Test-Driven JavaScript Development. If you code for a living, testing will make your life easier. Even though the contest is over, I encourage you to go through the steps and complete the original [...]
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Et tu, X-UA-Compatible?

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 6, 2011
Or, the story of how I learned that the X-UA-Compatible header/meta tag is NOT the same as the Internet Explorer 8+ Compatibility View button. Please note that the following information may be common knowledge, as this behavior is as described in the pre-requisite Microsoft documentation on the subject. However, I feel this behavior to be [...]
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