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The magic behind the CSS (part 2)

In part one of this series we reviewed new background, border and text effects, as well as the @font-face rule. You can perform graphic manipulations, and animations with CSS3 also, this article will introduce you to CSS3 transformations, transitions and animation.

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Windows Server 2012 Security Enhancements

Microsoft has been putting in more and more effort to secure their systems in the time since the old Windows NT days. In this article we will focus on the new advanced features that they have introduced in their latest version – Windows Server 2012.   Dynamic Access Control Dynamic Access Control is a new… Read the full post

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The magic behind the CSS 3 (part 1)

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets; it’s a presentational language used to separate formatting and appearance of elements from the content specified in the mark up, like HTML.  Style sheets have been in use in one form or another since the dawn of the web, but in the past ten years CSS has seen major… Read the full post

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Tuning HTML5 for Cross Browser Compatibility

HTML5 and its companion CSS3 introduce all sorts of awesome new features for animations, graphics, multi-media, interactive elements, web storage and more.  Although HTML5 has been in use for several years and is gaining popularity, it remains a W3 Candidate Recommendation and not yet an official standard.  While much progress has been made, still not… Read the full post

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Why Do I Need Website Monitoring?

With technology advancing faster than we can keep up, there are literally thousands of new websites springing up every day. Websites for games, for special interests, to share photos, even to start a small business are launched daily as the internet continues to grow like a wild frontier. But even with all of this new… Read the full post

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Perception is king, when it comes to website performance

This article provides performance tips that improve perceived time more than actual time. Two or three are founded on the principle of setting appropriate expectations.Measuring the time that passes while the system performs some task gives us a good indication of performance, but there’s more to the story. There are four types of time we… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part XIV

So far, this series presented the details of all the things that happen after a user clicks a link to retrieve a new web page. It purported to follow the details chronologically, but in truth we know that cannot be true. If all the processes we discussed were to happen consecutively, the web page would… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part XIII

The last episode of this series completed what we set out to do – detail what happens after a simple little click on a link. At this point in the series, the page is now fully loaded.Many articles stop here, but there’s so much more to the story. If we define poor performance as the… Read the full post