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DevTools Links 8 Jul 2013 | 08:51 pm
Links I’ve collected while working with and contributing to various browser developer tools, all in one place. If you are wanting to contribute to any of these tools, get in contact with the teams tha...
Devtools Snippets 17 Jun 2013 | 02:52 am
I have been working on a small collection of snippets that are handy to reuse inside of browser devtools. These can be used in any devtools. You can jump straight to the devtools snippets project page...
console.log helper function 5 Apr 2013 | 05:21 am
I have often found it tricky to get a ‘just-right’ console.log wrapper in JavaScript. I would prefer to just type log, but writing a wrapper function is a little trickier than at first glance. A varia...
Devtools Colorpicker Palette 3 Feb 2013 | 09:08 am
I’m still trying to figure out how to get a list of all the colors in use on a page from within devtools, but I’ve been hacking together a little demo with a custom Web Inspector frontend that loads a...
jQuery UI 1.9 Boilerplate 18 Oct 2012 | 01:05 am
jsbin has made having to remember some of these links less important. However, with jQuery UI 1.9 coming out, there are some CDN links that aren’t working. Here is the updated boilerplate I use to qui...
DevTools Feature Request – console.scope() 13 Sep 2012 | 06:57 am
Sometimes I just want to see all (or many) of the variables inside of the function, and it can be a bit of work to copy all of the variables into the console.log() call when you know that you are just...
TinyColor On npm 12 Sep 2012 | 11:54 pm
I have published my TinyColor package to the npm repository – https://npmjs.org/package/tinycolor2. Unfortunately it is called tinycolor2 since tinycolor was already taken. After running npm install t...
Devtools Colorpicker 2 Jul 2012 | 09:35 pm
It is great that so many important platforms that we use on the web are open source, and open to contributions from anyone. It took a lot of work, but it was worth it. I’ve been doing some web design...
DevTools Feature Request: Show Stack Trace In Event Listeners 21 Jun 2012 | 10:57 pm
I was asked a question in my DevTools talk at ComoRichWeb this month. Q: How do the event listeners work when the events are bound with jQuery? A: Not well. I rarely use that section when using a fr...
DevTools Talk – Slides and Links 21 Jun 2012 | 10:31 pm
I presented on using Chrome Developer Tools at ComoRichWeb, a web developer user group in Columbia, MO on June 20th. Here are the slides and some other links: Slides and Demo DevTools, Part II Slide...