Change Virtual Memory Settings to speed up Windows Virtual memory for your computer is hard drive space used by Windows when it fills up the physical RAM. When your system runs low on RAM because an application like Firefox is taking too much memory, Windows moves the least used "pages" of memory out to a ... Read more

Apart from being a very common interview question, this is one of the very first query which lingers around in our mind every time we type a URL in a browser. Here is an attempt to satiate this quest while we delve into the details of what happens in the background when we type a ... Read more

Favor object composition over class inheritance. The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

JSFiddle Demo. HTML: CSS:

You can check the CSS and JS code coverage with Chrome Dev Tools: You can show the Coverage tab from Dev Tools menu by choosing "More tools" => "Coverage". Alternatively, to open Dev Tools press Cmd+Opt+I (Mac) or Control+Shift+I (Windows, Linux). After this, you can access the Coverage from the Command Menu: Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) or ... Read more

The above figure is often used to demonstrate a minimum viable product, but I think it can also be used to demonstrate a minimum viable experience. The skateboard may be a little slower, but it doesn’t stop the user getting to where they want to go. So, if the user’s browser doesn’t support JavaScript or ... Read more

Shape of letter Kerning

Browser-level image lazy loading for the web without JavaScript

I've often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies, birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and curious creatures, almost by definition. But we are too easily distracted by shiny new toys and playthings. I no longer find Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer Tool ... Read more