My anecdotal evidence regarding CSS selector performance is: I’ve never once bothered with optimizing for it, and typically outright ignore traditional “advice” around it, and it’s never been a problem. ...
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Drupal 7.36 released
Drupal 7.36, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) and several new features, is now available for download. See the Drupal 7.36 release notes for a full ...
Read More »Viewing VM Reboot Logs
Microsoft Azure periodically performs global updates in order to improve the reliability, performance, and security of the host infrastructure that underlies virtual machines. Most of these updates happen under the ...
Read More »Amazon RDS Update – Data at Rest Encryption using AWS KMS Keys
You can now encrypt your Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for Oracle databases using keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (KMS) (this feature was ...
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AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
Author’s Note: This post imagines a dystopian future for web video, if we continue to rely on patented codecs to transmit media files. What if one company had a perpetual ...
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Mozilla files arguments against the FCC – latest step in fight to save net neutrality
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Opera 56.0.3051.0 developer update
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Opera 55 offers better control of web pages and more accessible bookmarks
Web
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New Proposed Recommendation: CSS Fonts Level 3. New Working …
14 Aug 2018 New Proposed Recommendation: CSS Fonts Level 3. New Working Draft: CSS Values and Units Level 4. Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Scroll Snap Level 1. Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Values and ...
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Understanding why Semantic HTML is important, as told by TypeScript
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Creating the “Perfect” CSS System
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Practical CSS Scroll Snapping
CMS
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American Councils for International Education
Completed Drupal site or project URL: https://www.americancouncils.org Since 1974, American Councils for International Education (ACIE) has been making international education accessible for all. And today, the organization has built a ...
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WordPress 4.9.8 Maintenance Release
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The Month in WordPress: July 2018
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Quarterly Updates | Q2 2018
Cloud
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Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available
You may have heard of Amazon Aurora, a custom built MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database born and built in the cloud. You may have also heard of serverless, which allows ...
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AWS Online Tech Talks – August 2018
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We’ve moved! Come see our new home!
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Last month today: July on GCP